About

TCKID is a non-profit community of over 21,000 members dedicated to help Third Culture Kids connect and find a sense of belonging. It has been featured on the BBC, ABC News, The Telegraph, the U.S Department of Defense and Education Week.

The community includes over 50 local groups from Taiwan to Colorado, meeting monthly for coffee and various activities.

Founded in November 2007, TCKID (tckid.com) is an open and growing global community of people interested in cross-cultural dialogue focused on Third Culture Kids (TCKs), Adult Third Culture Kids (ATCKs), and Cross Cultural individuals. (What is a Third Culture Kid?)

While positioning itself as an open-forum, the site is more widely regarded as a grassroot community for TCKs, because it caters to various needs such as local meetups, counseling, research and email support. The organization is entirely run by volunteers.

Using interactive technologies such as teleclasses, TCKID brings people together to meet across cultural and national boundaries to discuss their differences & similarities, and the issues that affect them.

TCKID aim to:

* Increase collaboration and dialogue between people of different cultures and nationalities
* Highlight TCK issues ranging from belonging to friendship, to restlessness and grief.
* Provide an educational framework in which anyone can become active leaders in their own education.

Our partners and programs include:


TCKWorld – Dr Ruth Hill Useem, the sociologist who coined the term “Third Culture Kid” – maintaining the first and oldest TCK website with resources.

TCK Academy – A training program and teleclasses series featured community experts.

TCK Research – A social research network, newsletter and service for researchers.

TCK Counseling - A counseling social network in development

Questions? Feedback? Want to get involved?

If you have ideas, suggestions, questions, feedback, constructive comments to improve your TCK community, we are listening. We want to hear from you.

What is TCKID news?

Our programs include:

TCK Academy – A training program and teleclasses series featured community experts.

TCKID Private – An exclusive membership to support the TCK community

TCK Research – A TCK research network. The first and most extensive data collection of TCKs.

TCKWorld – Maintaining the first and oldest TCK website