Name: Building Bridges: Celebrating Transcultural and Transracial Families
SKU: 39009
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Description

Transracial and transcultural family systems present unique challenges that can be difficult for even the most skilled families to navigate successfully. Healthy family systems that span culture and race demand vulnerability and bravery that simply does not come easily for most people.

In this workshop, we will explore a variety of complex social and biological issues that influence how our families function in an increasingly complicated social world. We will explore personal bias, identity, and the vital importance of championing safer, braver spaces for our families and their children. Through personal narrative, case studies, reflection, and connection, we will examine how cultural and racial differences impact ourselves, our families and our children, and how we can turn the tides to create futures that are brighter, more tolerant, and stronger than ever before.

Ed Morales, MSW, MPP, LICSW

Since 2011, Ed Morales has worked with more than 1,000 kids and their families, first as a school social worker, then as a school-based therapist, and now as a trainer, parent, and educator who has partnered with more than two dozen agencies and organizations across the United States to provide training and consultation on children’s mental health, managing challenging behavior, and implicit bias.

Ed works as a Trainer with the Minnesota Child Welfare Training Academy and as a social worker with Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota, serves on the Minnesota Subcommittee on Children’s Mental Health, and is a member of the community faculty at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Ed is the founder of Socorro Consulting and Training, an organization dedicated to creating a more peaceful, compassionate world for young people and their families.

The transracially adoptive parent of two remarkable sisters, Ed lives in North Minneapolis with his family.