InMergia serves non-English or second language English speaking families and individuals by providing direct advocacy or consultation to assist them navigate legal, governmental, educational and personal concerns

 

InMergia's Goal is to lessen the negative impact of the inevitable acculturative stress experienced by children by empowering families through capacity building and resource sharing to help themselves. 

InMergia Services offers support services to a larger community of international immigrants and their families.  Specifically, host families of third world exchange students, entire immigrant families and their children.  

InMergia Services exists, to empower families and their new child to more successfully merge into one family.  InMergia's goal is to lessen the negative impact of the inevitable.acculturative stress

ADOPTIVE FAMILIES

IMMIGRANT FAMILIES

 

Provides  one-to-one assistance with:

• overcoming language and developmental barriers,
•  connecting child with their native and the adoptive parents' cultural models,
• preparing meals that reflect the child's cultural heritage and experience,
• information about ethnic difference in personal care needs,

 

• connecting the child with others in the community with whom they share a native culture,
• purchasing items from their native culture such as food, clothing spices and other learning materials to empower their bicultural identity development,
• identifying best practices and strategies to aid their adoptive child and others in the family.

"Culture is a complex phenomenon that has many different elements, such as customs, values, art, religion, food, folklore, clothes, holidays, heroes, aspirations, attitudes, etc. For our purposes, it is important to understand that culture serves as regulator of behavior--we behave and assess behavior of others according to certain cultural norms and models. Culture creates a "template" of our behavior with many automatic elements that we often do not consciously recognize. It creates the "lenses," through which we perceive the world, and it gives meaning to everything we experience.

Overcoming Challenges of Blending  Child and Adoptive Family

SOURCE:  Gindis, PhD, Boris. " Dealing with cultural differences of an internationally adopted child." International Adoption Articles Directory 17 June 2006