International Family Transitions (IFT) is a comprehensive service that specializes in helping students who have been living outside their passport countries (Third Culture Kids) successfully manage their transition to college / university whether they are returning to their home country or going on to another host country. IFT also provides resources to those who support TCKs and other international students on the receiving end.

Did you know that Third Culture Kids (TCKs)...

• commonly report feeling different from their home-country peers?
• are likely to struggle with issues of identity and belonging?
• most commonly complain about not fitting in with their peers at college?
• often times suffer adjustment issues leading to isolation, loneliness and depression?

The Good News is…

• TCKs are a wonderful kind of different. Their international upbringing has given them a broadened world view, a unique skill set, a bevy of languages, and incredible experiences most of their home-country peers can only dream of.
• students who understand that they are different and manage to live with those differences in a positive way really do thrive in their new surroundings.
• with specialized training both TCKs and foreign nationals can successfully navigate the upheaval associated with an international relocation.

IFT provides seminars, workshops, trainings and individual consultations to:

• Third Culture Kids repatriating to their home country for high school or college / university
• Third Culture Kids who choose to relocate to a new host country for college / university
• Foreign born students coming from their passport country to study in the U.S.
• American students expatriating to a foreign host culture for study.
• Study Abroad students
• International scholars
• Families of international students and scholars coming to the U.S. for study
• Expatriating families with high school students
• International school teachers, counselors and parents
• College and university mental health counselors
• Staff of college / university International Students and Scholars offices