What age children benefit most from camp? How young is too young?
All ages benefit from camp. In fact we firmly believe it is never too young to start introducing an adopted child to his or her birth culture, but also to many other adopted children “just like them.” We begin with our child care program complete with culturally relevant toys, videos, and activities for toddlers. Our “campers” begin at age 3 (if they are potty trained) in our PreK program. This program has built in rest time and centers where camp comes to them, similar to a protective preschool environment. We have a full scale elementary age program that strongly focuses on pride building cultural activities that are age appropriate. Camp continues through our exciting middle and high school programs. The camp experience doesn’t end there – it is followed by opportunities to be camp counselors or volunteers after high school graduation at one of our annual 10 camps.
