- Straightlaced
- Let's Get Real
- That's a Family
- It's Elementary
- One Wedding and a Revolution
- Home and Hands
- Wired for What?
- Deadly Deception
- Choosing Children
Additional Resources
That's a Family!That's a Family! is an entertaining documentary that breaks new ground in helping children in grades K-8 understand the different shapes families take today. Part of The Respect for All Project. |
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- Statistics on US Families
- Who Should Use this Film
- Reviews, Endorsements and Awards
- Teaching Guide
- White House Screening
- Additional Resources
- Production Credits
General Resources | Multiracial Families | Adoption | Grandparents | Gay- and Lesbian-Headed Families | Divorce and Single-Parent Families
General Resources
Ally Action strives to assure that schools are safe, inclusive and effective for all, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity/expression.
Suggested resources: LGBTQ Inclusive Book List [links to http://www.allyaction.org/FileUploads/A2_Book_List.pdf
Creators of touring photo-text exhibits including In Our Family: Portraits of all Kinds of Families; Love Makes a Family: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People and Their Families; and Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families.
c/o Southern Poverty Law Center
400 Washington Avenue
Montgomery, AL 36104
Phone: 334-956-8200
Vibrant resource for teachers and students about ways to address bias and multicultural education in the classroom.
Multiracial Families
Dedicated to enriching the lives of Asian-Pacific Islanders of mixed heritage and developing communities that value diversity.
Adoption
Fax: 202-332-0935
Provides general information on adoption as well as some guidelines for approaching both deciding to adopt and taking the first steps. Also provides contact information to adoption agencies and attorneys.
North American Council on Adoptable Children
Fax: 651-644-9848
Through education, parent support, research and advocacy in the
Fax: 510-243-9970
Dedicated to providing the highest quality adoption-related services to children of color, their birth parents and their adoptive parents.
www.americanadoptioncongress.org
www.raisingadoptedchildren.com
Grandparents
AARP Grandparent Information Center
601 E Street NW
Phone: 202-434-2281 (Spanish)
Provides information for grandparents who have a variety of roles, including grandparents raising grandchildren, grandparents who are concerned about their visitation rights with their grandchildren, step-grandparents and "traditional" grandparents who want to have a positive role in their grandchildren's lives.
The Foundation for Grandparenting
Raises grandparent consciousness, and promotes the importance of grandparenting as a role and function that both gives important meaning and empowerment to later life, and that benefits all family members.
Gay-and Lesbian-Headed Families
Phone: 202-331-5015
Fax: 202-331-0080
The mission of the Family Pride Coalition is to advance the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered parents and their families through mutual support, community collaboration, and public understanding.
Children of Lesbians and Gays Everywhere
Phone: 415-861-5437
Fax: 415-255-8345
COLAGE engages, connects, and empowers people to make the world a better place for children of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender parents and families.
Our Family Coalition (OFC)
Phone: 415-981-1960
OFC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the civil rights and well being of Bay Area lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender families with children and prospective parents through education, advocacy, social networking, and grassroots community organizing.
Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays (PFLAG)
Phone: 202-638-4200
Fax: 202-638-0243
National network of individuals, hundreds of local chapters, newsletter and speakers bureaus that offer support, information and advocacy, with a focus on education issues.
Phone: 612-827-7731
Fax: 612-822-2759
E-mail: connect@rainbowfamilies.org
Rainbow Families serves families in the upper
Divorce and Single-Parent Families
Parents Without Partners, Inc.
Stepfamily Association of America
National membership organization dedicated to successful stepfamily living. Provides educational information and resources for anyone interested in stepfamilies and their issues.