ACCES Campers are fully included in daily activities with typically developing campers. ACCES Campers are housed together with a lower staff to camper ratio (1:3) to ensure that their personal care needs are appropriately supported.
- Has a mild to moderate mental disability
- Is between 8 and 19 years old.
- Can independently, or with verbal cues, feed, bathe and toilet.
- Is able to function successfully within a 1:3 staff to camper ratio.
- Is able to adjust to changes in routine and/or environment with relative ease.
- Has the ability to effectively communicate needs (may be verbal or with a communication device)
Facilities
Our facilities are second to none with beautiful, spacious log cabins that accommodate up to 14 people with in-cabin bathrooms and showers. Other log cabin style buildings provide indoor activity and dining space. Our private, 42 acre lake provides the base for swimming, boating, and fishing. Miles of trails wind through our 1,100 acres offering hikers, mountain bikers, and horseback riders with a variety of terrain. Our ranch boasts two riding arenas and a fully equipped barn surrounded by paddocks. Archery and riflery ranges, arts & crafts studios, climbing towers, obstacle courses, high ropes course, and fields for games offer campers more great places to have FUN!
Our air-conditioned, well equipped Health Lodges are staffed 24 hours per day with a highly qualified team of medical professionals. They manage daily medications, triage & treat injuries & illnesses, and work with medical providers to ensure that we meet our campers’ health care needs.
Camp Daily Life
Coaching periods - Campers select those activities that they most want to experience and learn more about. They participate in those activities for 1 – 2 hours each day (M-F) for a week. Our progressive approach ensures that they build upon the knowledge and skills they acquired during previous days – guaranteeing challenge and achievement and keeping them engaged and enthusiastic. A sample of Coaching Period Activities is listed below:
Archery Aerobics Arts & Crafts Basketball Canoeing Ceramics Climbing Tower Cooking Drama Digital Arts Fishing Healthy Living Kayaking
Land Sports Long Distance Swimming Mountain Biking Newspaper
Outdoor Living Riflery Sailing Swim Lessons
Discovery Hour - Campers choose from amongst the day’s activity offerings to discover and experience something new and/or unusual. Sample activities include blueberry picking, hikes, free swim, tie-dyeing, and improvisation.
Evening Programs – Skits, dances, Capture the Flag games, scavenger hunts, and campfires are just a few of the evening programs that bring the campers together to share even more fun.
Special Events occur throughout the camp session with many scheduled for Saturdays & Sundays. Carnivals, Theme Days, Olympics, Overnight Campouts and Chapel gatherings are just a few favorite.
New for Summer 2012
Camp Speers-Eljabar YMCA believes that the benefits of our high quality summer camp experience should be available to every child and teen. Realizing that families have different abilities to pay, we have instituted a voluntary 4 tier pricing program for our Summer Resident and Day Camp programs. Tier 1 most closely pays the true cost of camp and tiers 2 and 3 are subsidized rates that enable other families to also send their children to camp. Tier 4 is our open campership program. This is an option for families whose need for financial assistance is greater than can be met through tiers 2 and 3.
2012 RATES
$150 per week deposit due at registration
Tier One - $1025 for 1st week, $988 each additional week
Tier Two - $953 for 1st week, $928 each additional week
Tier Three - $897 for 1st week, $825 each additional week
2012 DATES
Sunday, July 8- Saturday, July 14 (Eljabar grades 3 - 7)
Sunday, July 15 - Saturday, July 21 (Eljabar grades 3 - 7)
Sunday, July 22 - Saturday, July 28 (Speers grades 8 - 11)
Sunday, July 29 - Saturday, August 4 (Speers grades 8 - 11)
Sunday, August 5 - Saturday, August 11 (Speers grades 8 - 11)
Sunday, August 12 - Saturday, August 18 (Speers grades 8 - 11)
Sunday, August 19 - Saturday, August 25 (Speers grades 8 - 11)*
*Riders Roundup not available this week
Horseback Riding Options / Rates
- Daily Lessons: Monday - Friday, one hour per day lessons
Tier One - $ 125 per week
Tier Two - $120 per week
Tier Three - $115 per week
- Riders Roundup: Monday - Friday, three hours per day
Tier One - $ 160 per week
Tier Two - $152 per week
Tier Three - $146 per week
A pre-registration screening is required. The Pre-Registration Form should be completed and returned to Camp. Once the Pre-Registration Form has been reviewed, our ACCES Program Director will contact parents of the prospective camper to conduct a telephone or in person interview. The Program Director will then inform parents of acceptance into the program. Parents then complete the regular enrollment process. Health Forms and other information are provided following enrollment. Space is limited
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