Become the Community Your Child Needs
Adoption is a lifelong event. Your parenting education needs to be, too. This 3-month Adoptive Parenting Consultation Group is for parents raising adoptees ages 0-99.
- Receive expert guidance to respond to your adoptee’s stage-specific needs
- Stay calm and focused during moments of stress and confusion
- Nurture ongoing, healthy development for you and your family
14 Day Money-Back Guarantee. Not loving it within the first two sessions? It’s on the house.
“Opened the door to a whole new way of looking at transracial adoption for me.” -Community Participant
“This workshop has made me more mindful as an adoptive parent to what our son may experience as he gets older and more mindful of how I can prepare myself as the one who gets to walk alongside of him.” -Community Participant
“Half the battle is finding constructive ways to talk about hard things. This workshop has provided just that. We are so grateful for this unique & gracious context!” -Community Participant
The #1 Challenge
Most adoptive parents simply want the best for their children. But the daily process can leave them feeling overwhelmed or confused. Afraid they’ll get it wrong or maybe even make the same mistakes their parents did. Leading their child to put their trust in others to meet adoptee-related needs.
It’s not because they’re bad parents! It’s because they’re not equipped with the right language and tools.
That’s why I created the Adoptive Parenting Consultation Group (previously known as Campfire Workshop).
Connect wherever You Are
Sessions hosted weekly and virtually on Zoom:
***[EARLY BIRD Registration by Oct 31st $699]***
Ongoing Support
This three-month community deep dive extends well beyond a one-and-done webinar.
Lifelong Adoptee-Specific
Relationship dynamics experienced in new dimensions in all ages and stages of the adoptee journey.
Adoption is a lifelong event. Your education needs to be, too.
There will be plenty of resources, long-established and currently developed, to receive, review, and practice together during these next 12 weeks.
If you’re someone who’s eager to continue growing as a parent and ally, it’s gonna be great to meet you here.
Tuition for 12 weeks of education and support: $799
Curriculum for Adoptive Parenting Consultation Group provides structure while giving space for family-specific needs and questions throughout the three-month experience:
How It Works
I know your commitment as a parent is non-stop.
I’m here to help you do your parenting job the best you can while feeling deeply refreshed, convicted, and empowered along the way. You do so much for your family! That’s why I take this time to restock your resources and refuel your energy.
This space is for you if you’re:
- Not sure how to respond to your child’s emotions and behaviors…
- Confused about questions your child has been asking recently…
- Navigating new dimensions related to your child’s life stage…
- Not connecting with your child the way they need you to…
- Open to a different adoptive parenting approach but want to get it right…
Here’s what you get when you join the Adoptive Parenting Consultation Group:
- A THREE MONTH journey of weekly 60-minute sessions over Zoom (choose to observe or present your questions, receiving live coaching and constructive feedback from adoptee and therapist Cam Lee Small, MS, LPCC, along with fellow members of the group.
- Instant download of Cam’s four-part workbook for adoptees, “This Is Why I Was Adopted”
- Immediate access to Cam’s online-course “10 Parenting Strategies to Help Adoptees Navigate Race & Culture” [ten video modules paired with an interactive discussion guide]
- Clarify your parenting skills through a 12-week series of adoption-related themes and learning modules [meet virtually and weekly 12 times; with resources to engage in between sessions]
- Cam draws from his role as an alum and consultant for University of Minnesota’s Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare to help you review and discuss core concepts you need to support your child and family
- Create a 5-part support plan that will support your adoptee wherever they’re at in their journey; for this season and far beyond
- Do all this from the comfort of your living room
- Can’t attend each meeting in person? Live recordings sent to your inbox, available to watch for 6 months
- 14 Day Money-Back Guarantee. Not loving it within the first two sessions? It’s on the house.
What’s said here stays here. What’s learned here leaves here.
You’ll find yourself among peers in this 3-month deep dive as we intelligently and compassionately address practical needs related to caring for a child on the adoption and permanency spectrum.
Comparable consultation can be priced at $200 per session or more. But for parents willing to connect and grow together, access this unique offering for only $65 per session.
Here’s what folks from my adoptive parenting community have learned from our time together.
Parent Supported
“The learning itself is invaluable, but the cohort model of learning with a group of fellow adoptive parents is really incredible.” -Community Participant
“The framework Cam teaches will absolutely change the trajectory of our family.” -Community Participant
“All of it has been valuable and really well thought out. The variety of personal stories, dramatic representations and clinical insights is really well rounded.” -Community Participant
“I’ve enjoyed the atmosphere of non-judgement while we are all learning together. That all of us are at different stages but all relate to the immense learning we all have to do to support our kids.” -Community Participant
“We really appreciated specific ideas and information on how to really engage in the parenting model. We are seeing massive changes in our home already!” -Community Participant
Meet Cam
Cam Lee Small, author, clinician in private practice, and dynamic advocate for mental health and Adoption Literacy, brings lived experience and professional expertise to the forefront of his mission. His work has been featured in National Council for Adoption, Christianity Today, University Minnesota School of Social Work, and Center for Adoption Support and Education.
Cam is both an alum and training facilitator for the cohort-based Permanency and Adoption Competency Certificate, which includes over 70 hours of continued education delivered through University of Minnesota’s Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare – to increase the number of qualified permanency and adoption mental health and child welfare professionals across MN who are able to work in collaborative, cross-disciplinary, and multicultural contexts.
Cam’s community-based vision for adoptee-informed advocacy is evident through his 1:1 counseling services, live workshops and support groups, Masterclass trainings, and his unique blend of content creation/collaboration across digital and grassroots platforms. His book The Adoptee’s Journey: From Loss and Trauma to Healing and Empowerment addresses the intersection of adoption, mental health, and social responsibility. Cam’s personal insight stands honestly next to his professional acumen, making him a transformative force within the adoptee community and throughout the fields of advocacy and mental health.
Personal & Professional
“In the classroom he blends a depth of clinical experience with firsthand perspective to draw meaningful connections between mental health and the lived experience of adoptees in a way that is applicable and engaging.” –Elizabeth Keely Vandre, MSW, LGSW | University of Minnesota Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare
Adoption isn’t a one-time event.
Your child’s post-adoption support shouldn’t be either.
The Adoptive Parenting Consultation Group is a fellowship of real people, committed to real and lasting growth, not just for themselves but for each other, their growing families and those growing within them, and for the dynamic needs in their local communities to which they’ve been called to see and serve.
Cam Lee Small, MS, LPCC 