MISSION
Wreckage and Wonder, LLC is a female, Black-owned business that:
1.Educates transracial adoptive and foster families through our Learning Library courses.
2.Empowers transracial adoptees and former foster youth through post-placement services that center their experiences and support their healing into adulthood.
3. Invests in keeping vulnerable and minoritized families together by contributing 10% of every purchase into organizations that prioritize family preservation and reunification.
VALUES
Accountability
We believe all leaders and educators benefit from constructive criticism. In building a community dedicated to social change, we embrace accountability and repair. We embrace opportunities for improvement and we encourage friends, collaborators, and clients to keep us focused on our mission and values.
Anti-racism
We believe racism is deeply embedded in our media, culture, and social and political institutions. Therefore our work is unapologetically dedicated to addressing and changing personal and institutional beliefs and practices that perpetuate racist ideas and actions. Anti-racist work occurs at an individual and systemic level and is an ongoing commitment of our pedagogical and activist work.
Communal Care
We believe every transracial adoptee and foster youth deserves to be raised in anti-racist homes and communities that actively protect, support, and empower their unique identity. Every adoption professional, parent, religious leader and school system plays a part in ensuring transracial adoptees and foster children are properly and ethically cared for and advocated for in the world.
Family Preservation
We believe children deserve to live with and be raised by their biological family when it is safe to do so. Our work directly invests in creating a world where families have the rights, resources, and access they need to stay together.
Intersectionality
We acknowledge that aspects of a person's social and political identities combine to create different modes of discrimination and privilege (Crenshaw, 1989). We believe identity is complex and impacted by race, ethnicity, class, nationality, sexual orientation, gender, disability, citizenship status and other identity markers. We work to recognize our privileges, make space for different ways of knowing and being, and commit to listening to learn.
Reproductive Justice
We believe in reproductive justice, defined as “the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the children we have in safe and sustainable communities,” (SisterSong Reproductive Justice Collective).