[Saya]

Hi Ripples. Thanks for bringing up this interesting and important question. Our agency makes anyone adopting internationally with them go through a series of 3 orientation classes on parenting a child from another country. They also referred everyone to a website (and unfortunately I can't remember the name right now) that has on-line tutorials for adoptive parents, including at least one on dealing with issues of race and diversity. The agency also offers a lot of programs once the child is home.

That said, we used an agency that's been around for many years and is located in a large cosmopolitan and multi-racial city. I feel like the experience we had was not necessarily the norm. There were certainly other agencies we looked at that that didn't have near the level of preparation that ours did.