Does your child have difficulty speaking in school? Talking to peers and new adults? Communicating his or her needs? Outside Voice Selective Mutism Day Camp can help!
Outside Voice typically takes place in a rented private school space during holiday breaks, allowing your child to grow confident speaking in a real-life school environment.
Our expert counselors will help your child conquer their anxiety around speaking and will help them start to use their “Outside Voice.” Our counselors include local mental health, school, and medical professionals, including local family medicine resident physicians that are trained by our specialists. Having these professionals serve as camp counselors allows your child to grow in bravery while also training local professionals on how to help individuals with Selective Mutism within their profession.
Our mission serves to not only help your child speak freely, but also to increase the number of ‘helpers’ in our community who will be able to accurately assess and help those struggling with SM.
Upcoming Camps
Summer 2026: Murrieta, CA
July 26-29
Campers: age 3-11
Junior Camp Counselors: age 12+
While our traditional campers are ages 3-11, individuals ages 12+ with SM will attend as Junior Camp Counselors. These older children work with their counselor to really put their speaking into practice, serving as leaders at camp. In practicing leadership, they will use their anxiety-management skills to lead activities, exercise their decision-making skills, and be an excellent role model for using their “outside voice.” Camp for our Junior Counselors will start off with warm-up activities, followed by Junior Counselor training and practice.
Camp will run from 9:00am - 2:30pm daily,
Parent training will occur virtually on July 21 and 22, 10:00am-12:00pm PST
*Dependent upon client progress, we may schedule off-site exposures where parents can learn hands-on how to implement “Brave Talking” with their child in the community! Generally, this is a scheduled Italian Ice/Gelato Shop Exposure on the third day of camp.
*All children must be potty trained to attend.
Outside Voice Counselors
Camp counselors include experts and trainees in selective mutism including clinical psychologists and local resident family medicine physicians.
Brave talking skills practiced at camp
At Outside Voice, your child will work on mastering the following goals:
Speaking with a new adult (counselor)
Speaking with a new peer
Raising their hand in a group setting
Presenting to the group
Making brave guesses
Engaging in spontaneous speech with counselor(s) and peer(s)
Asking for “Help”
Eating with peers
Participating in celebrations
Asking to use the restroom (and actually using it; all attendees must be fully potty trained)
Using common greetings (e.g., “Hello,” “Goodbye,” Name Introduction, and saying “Please” and “Thank You”)
Camp Activities
In order to assist your child with making progress toward their goals, your child will participate in variety of fun activities to promote Brave Talking skills.
Talent Show / Demonstrations
Birthday Party
Show-and-Tell
Mock visit from a doctor or dentist
Field trip and exposure activities where your child will have the chance to show off their “Outside Voice!”
Parent fade-in sessions where parents have the opportunity to practice learned skills with in the camp environment
Cognitive-Behavioral based education sessions about anxiety and practice with coping skills
Additional exposure activities within the community
Camp Package
The 4-day Outside Voice Camp
$4060.00
There are 3 components to camp that are included in the camp package.
Parent Training Sessions:
In order to support one another while learning and fine-tuning the skills necessary to help your child work on using their “Outside Voice” long after camp has ended, parents will engage in parent-skills sessions. These sessions are 2 hours in length and occur virtually. Exclusive access to our private Facebook group that is just for our past and present camp families to connect.
Outside Voice Camp:
Our 4-day Selective Mutism camp
Post-Camp Follow-up:
45 minute follow-up phone call with the Camp Leader to discuss progress post-camp.
Intake Evaluation and Camp Readiness Session(s) are not included in the camp package.
Payment Information
Registration: After the initial evaluation is complete and it is determined that your child is appropriate for camp, a $500.00 non-refundable registration fee is required in order to secure your child’s place at Outside Voice. This fee will be applied to the cost of camp.
Camp: Final payments must be made 30 calendar days before the first day of camp.
Refund Policy: If there is a refund request made more than 30-days in advance of the camp start date, you will receive a refund of 100% of registration fees except the non-refundable deposit ($500.00), intake, and camp readiness sessions. If the refund request is within 30-days or less of the camp start date, you will receive a refund on all payments except $950.00.
Outside Voice Camp Interest Form
Payment Methods
A $500 non-refundable deposit is due at registration. This fee is applied to the total cost of camp. The remaining balance is due by June 26, 2026, 30 days before the start of camp.
We accept all major credit cards.
CareCredit:
CareCredit is a great option for camp payments. It’s a unique credit card used to pay for healthcare expenses that you can then pay back over time. Click the button below to apply for CareCredit.
Needs-Based Scholarship:
Good Day Mental Health offers a needs-based scholarship to those who qualify. To apply for financial assistance, please complete and return our scholarship application.