Welcome To Heritage Camps For Adoptive Families!
Welcome To Heritage Camps For Adoptive Families!
Heritage Camps for Adoptive Families
Since 1992, Heritage Camps for Adoptive Families has been supporting the healthy development of families formed by adoption. We promote the successful transition of adopted children into healthy, confident, well-grounded adults who are proud of themselves, their families, and their heritage.
Whether your child was adopted internationally or domestically, HCAF helps adoptive families become part of a larger community “just like themselves,” with shared experiences, challenges, and opportunities.
More Than An Annual Vacation!
Current research in adoption supports HCAF’s approach to social integration and self-esteem building. More than just an annual vacation, HCAF fosters meaningful connections with other adoptive families and cultural communities.
Family members of all ages benefit from the expertise of professionals in the fields of identity development, complex trauma, art therapy, and more, balanced with fun and engaging activities that support relationship building. Many of our workshop presenters are adoptees who bridge their professional expertise with their personal experiences.
Connecting Culture and Community
While all of our camps include programming about adoption in general, our Heritage Camps have a focus of supporting transcultural/transracial adoptive families. We connect adoptive families with authentic cultural experiences, providing positive representations that affirm the inherent worth of a child’s birth culture through fun, age-appropriate, interactive activities, and cultural/racial “mirrors” — camp counselors and presenters from adoptees’ birth cultures.
“What is most valuable to our family about Heritage Camps for Adoptive Families is being able to connect with others who travel the same path in life as our family. There is a sense of wholeness that comes from being a part of the camp experience. Through camp, our child has found a place and community that completely understands and accepts her 100% for who she is. There is a sense of belonging and understanding that doesn’t come from any other community of which we are a part.”
Learn how you can support Heritage Camps through corporate sponsorship, our annual gala, and more.
2019 Camps
African / Caribbean Heritage Camp
June 6-9, Regis University, Denver, CO
Chinese Heritage Camp
August 30 – September 2, Snow Mountain Ranch, Fraser, CO
Chinese Heritage Camp II
July 18 – 21, Regis University, Denver, CO
Domestic Adoption Camp
June 27 – 30, Regis University, Denver, CO
Indian/Nepalese Heritage Camp
July 11 – 14, Snow Mountain Ranch, Fraser, CO
Korean Heritage Camp
June 13 – 16, Snow Mountain Ranch, Fraser, CO
Latin American Heritage Camp
June 20 – 23, Snow Mountain Ranch, Fraser, CO
Russian / Eastern European / Central Asian Heritage Camp
July 25 – 28, Snow Mountain Ranch, Fraser, CO
Southeast Asian Heritage Camp / Pacific Islander Heritage Camp
August 1 – 4, YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park, CO
Domestic Adoption Camp
We welcome families built by domestic adoption, foster care, and kinship. Camp programming is designed to respond to the specific experiences of domestic adoptive/foster families, covering topics such as relationships with birth families, attachment, and trauma.
If your child was adopted domestically but their cultural heritage identifies with one of our other camps, you may choose to attend Domestic Adoption Camp or the camp that corresponds to their ethnic identity.
Heritage Camps
While all of our camps include programming about adoption in general, our Heritage Camps have a focus of supporting transcultural/transracial adoptive families. We connect adoptive families with authentic cultural experiences, providing positive representations that affirm the inherent worth of a child’s birth culture through fun, age-appropriate, interactive activities, and cultural/racial “mirrors” — camp counselors and presenters from adoptees’ birth cultures.
What Is Your Child’s Culture Of Birth?
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- Cambodia
- China
- Dem. Rep. Congo
- Ethiopia
- Guatemala
- Haiti
- India
- Indonesia
- Kazakhstan
- Korea
- Marshall Islands
- Mexico
- Nepal
- Philippines
- Russia
- Samoa
- Thailand
- Ukraine
- United States
- Vietnam
- Other Country - Call Us To Discuss
- African Country
- Caribbean Country
- Central American Country
- Central Asian Country
- Eastern European Country
- Pacific Islands Country
- Southeast Asian Country
- South American Country
Volunteer
We believe that parental and community involvement creates meaningful bonds. We strive to have each kids workshop led by a member of that particular cultural community. Find out more about how you can get involved.
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We send out camp registration information in February/March, periodic e-mail newsletters and other pertinent information.
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