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PROMSE was established to Promote healthy Multiracial families through Support & Education. Drs. Roy & Rollins provide consultation, workshops, and support for multiracial individuals and families, as well as education, consultation and workshops for professionals working with multiracial families.
Through PROMSE, they connect families to evidence-based information and resources. Their goal is to translate and apply scholarly work to help enhance and improve the everyday lives of individuals and families.
Multiracial families include any family where at least one individual is from a different race, ethnic group, or culture.
Alethea Rollins, Ph.D.
Dr. Alethea Rollins earned her M.S. and Ph.D. in Human Development and Family Studies from the University of North Carolina Greensboro (UNCG). She completed her post-doctoral work at the Center for Youth, Family, and Community Partnerships at UNCG, where she provided consultation and educational support for Head Start and Early Head Start programs, and worked as a research associate on multiple nationally funded investigations.
Dr. Rollins teaches courses in human development across the lifespan, including child development and adolescence, adulthood, and death, grief and dying. In addition to research publications in peer-reviewed journals and national conference presentations, Dr. Rollins co-edited a book and has written numerous book chapters on multiracial families.
She is a member of Suburban Balance’s Educational Equity Committee and is actively engaged with the LSR7 school board to ensure equitable educational policies and practices are in place to support all students.
Her research focuses on multiracial individuals and families, parental racial socialization, and antibias practices of early childhood educators. In addition to her work in academia, Dr. Rollins provides evidence-based consultation for educators and parents.
Roudi Nazarinia Roy, Ph.D., CFLE
Dr. Roudi Nazarinia Roy holds a Ph.D. in Human Ecology with an emphasis in Family Studies. She received her M.A. in Family Science and B.A. in Psychology from the University of British Columbia. Dr. Roy is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Family and Consumer Sciences at California State University Long Beach.
She has taught courses related to the transition to parenthood and family dynamics, family life education, parent education, and family stress and coping. Her research interest revolves around the transition to parenthood, multiracial families, college student-parents, and the evaluation of fatherhood programs. In addition to publications in peer-reviewed journals, and national and international conference presentations she has published three textbooks and numerous book chapters in her field. Dr. Roy is a Certified Family Life Educator and has served as a Board Member for the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) and is an Associate Editor of Marriage and Family Review.
In addition to her work in academia Dr. Roy serves as a consultant and evaluator for community agencies serving diverse populations of families.
Coaching available for parents, caregivers, educators, organizations, social workers, therapists, family attorneys, and businesses.
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This interdisciplinary volume surveys the diverse experiences of biracial families, both across and outside the black/white binary. The book examines the deep-rooted social contexts that inform the lifespan of interracial families, from dating and marriage through the stages of parenthood, as well as families’ unique responses and realities. Through a variety of structures and settings including blended and adoptive families, contributors describe families’ strengths and resilience in meeting multiple personal and larger social challenges. The intricacies of parenting and family development are also revealed as an ongoing learning process as parents and children construct identity, culture, and meaning.
Among the topics covered:
Social constitutionality of race in America: some meanings for biracial/multiracial families.
Interracial marriages: historical and contemporary trends.
Racial socialization: a developmental perspective.
Biracial families formed through adoption.
Diverse family structures within biracial families.
Racial identity: choices, context, and consequences.
Addressing lingering gaps in the existing literature and highlighting areas for future study, Biracial Families gives readers a fuller understanding of a growing and diversifying population. Its depth and breadth of coverage makes the book an invaluable reference not only for practitioners and researchers, but also for educators and interracial families across the spectrum.