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INTEGRATION OF TWO WORLDS part 2

How can you help them feel more secure and have a sense of belonging in their new home and community?

One way of doing this is through Integration. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, they define integration as an “action or process of successfully joining or mixing with a different group of people. Cultural integration is blending of two or …

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Adoption Assumptions Culture Parent Coaching Relationships Transracial

INTEGRATION OF TWO WORLDS

Imagine you are a seven-year-old child, surrounded by people just like you, racially and ethnically. They teach you the beliefs, language, food, music and traditions of their culture, your culture; but suddenly, in the blink of an eye everything changes.

Can you imagine how your seven-year-old self would feel if everything you knew in your short life suddenly disappeared? What …

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Taking Courage in 2020

How many of you have made a New Year’s resolution and then shortly after the New Year, it failed? I know that I have.

According to a study done by Strava, the social network for athletes, they found out that the second Friday in January is considered the “Quitter’s Day.”

Several years ago, I heard about identifying a word for