Transracial adoptive and foster parents in Prince George’s County, Maryland, discovered from skilled professionals easy methods to care for and magnificence their children’ hair, as a part of a workshop hosted Saturday by the Center for Adoption Support and Education.
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Transracial adoptive and foster parents in Prince George’s County, Maryland, discovered from skilled professionals easy methods to care for and magnificence their children’ hair as a part of a workshop hosted Saturday by the Center for Adoption Support and Education (CASE).
Parents obtained hands-on lessons from stylists with Styles 4 Kidz, an Illinois-based salon devoted to offering schooling and providers for children with textured hair in transracial or biracial foster care or adoptive households.
Styles 4 Kidz proprietor Tamekia Swint based the salon 14 years in the past after assembly a white adoptive mother in her group with two African American daughters.
“She had no concept what to do along with her child’s hair,” Wilson mentioned. “She was desperately in want of assist with their hair, so, I began serving to her.”
Now, Styles 4 Kidz travels across the nation providing free haircare workshops for parents in comparable conditions.
The workshop was held within the scholar middle at Prince George’s County Community College.
Each household obtained their very own bag of merchandise and instruments, in addition to a model head. One stylist stood on the entrance of the room to guide the lesson whereas others bounced round to totally different tables, aiding the parents.
“We know {that a} excessive variety of foster and adoptive households are transracial, or interracial. And we actually wish to ensure that these households can assist their youngsters in a method that helps them be ok with themselves and helps promote their very own self-identity,” CASE Training Institute Director Dawn Wilson mentioned.
Parents received skilled on a number of fundamental hairstyles together with ponytails with twists, free-standing braids and Bantu knots, in addition to fundamental hands-on instruction on styling and moisturizing.
“We create a greater area at house the place hair is now not a battle,” Styles 4 Kidz salon supervisor Christy James mentioned.
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