Family Camp
Building Strength in Community
Family Camp was founded in response to a need for practical venues for resource parents to obtain continuing education credits necessary for maintaining their home’s certification.
Resource parents bring their whole family–biological, foster, adoptive or otherwise–for a long weekend of workshops, family fun and community building. Kindred Matters volunteers provide supervision while parents attend trainings from experts on different topics to add to their education and skills as resource parents. When not attending workshops, families are able to participate in different camp activities together and build community with other families who understand the journey they are on.
For more information about Family Camp, please contact tia@kindredmatters.org.
Family Camp 2024 Dates- Session 1: Suttle Lake March 22-25 Session 2: Canby Grove May 24-27
Applications for our 2024 Family Camp Sessions are open! Please follow the link to create an account with UltraCamp and complete the application. If you have any questions please contact info@kindredmatters.org
Family Camp is a four-day, three-night camp program hosted by Kindred Matters. Resource Families bring their entire family–biological, foster, adoptive or otherwise–for a long weekend of workshops, family fun and community building.
This year, we are offering 2 sessions of Family Camp!
Family Camp Session 1: March 22-25 at Suttle Lake Camp, Sisters, Oregon.
Family Camp Session 2: May 24-27 at Canby Grove Camp, Canby, Oregon.
While our first deadline has passed, we are still accepting applications. Please get them in ASAP!
Applications submitted by this deadline will be brought to our first selection committee meeting. After the deadline we will continue to keep the applications open and have subsequential selection committee meeting until we fill our available space for each Family Camp session. At that time, we will create our waitlist for each program. The application information is critical to the selection process and incredibly helpful for our team to best serve families. If our team has any follow-up questions, we will reach out to you directly.
We are using a new registration software this year. Please have the primary family contact create an account and then proceed to add each member of your family that will be attending camp to your account prior to filling out the application. After clicking the link, please click register, followed by new user to proceed. EACH member must be added to your account prior to completing the application form in order for us to have an accurate count for your family. We understand that family structures can change, if this is the case for your family please reach out to us as soon as possible so that we can make adjustments. There is no fee to apply for Family Camp, however there is a cost for attending. Please make sure that you "Check Out" at the end of the application to ensure that it has been submitted. You should receive an email confirming the submission of your application as well. If you have any questions, please reach out!
Please follow the link above to apply.
IF APPROVED, You will be contacted, and given further information to completing the registration process.
We would love to encourage you to share our Family Camp applications with other families in your community that may be interested in attending. If you have a young person who has a sibling living in a separate home we would also love to encourage you to invite them to apply. Family Camp is also a great space for sibling connection if our Sibling Camp is not the right fit.