Camp Horizon, Inc turns 40 this year. We celebrate 40 years of summer camp! As we look into the next forty years, we hope to continue providing foster youth with the opportunity of a overnight, sleepaway camp, increasing our number of youth served, and providing more resources and supports throughout the year to help our youth become productive adults.
This year, with the support of donors, we served approximately 70 youth throughout the year and were able to send 20 youth to summer camp. Our youth enjoyed the one-to-one volunteer and youth pairing throughout the week. While enjoying the many activiites and self-esteem classes, our youth and volunteers gained a great experience and bond. We provided our youth with a loving and supportive environment allowing many traumatized youth to open up and realize they are valued.
As Camp Horizon continues to develop and grow, we hope to keep supporters, such as yourself, with us on this journey. Stay tuned for our new developments as we build and strengthen our programming.
Links:
This year, we are thankful for your support! We have had another successful weekend camp for our young leaders in the Leadership Development Program.
With your help, we were able to host a weekend camp for our 12-18 years. The youth have missed getting together, enjoying some classic fun, roasting marshmallows, while gaining some valuable leadership skills to help them as they mature and age out of foster care. ,
Without your support, Camp Horizon would not be able to make this happen for many youth that have experienced foster care. As we move into the our new fiscal year, we strive to continue providing our youth with the necessary and required tools to become successful adults within the supportive, loving and caring environment. With this in mind, we hope you will close out your year by making a donation, of any amount, to support Camp Horizon as the needs of our foster will always be important and necessary to meet. Your donation can help us do all we can do to ensure a foster youth is thriving!
Cheers to another great year! If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact us.
This year, we are thankful for your support! As the year comes to an end, we want to take a moment to reflect on the past year and be thankful for the unyielding support of our loyal friends and family.
With your help, this year, we were able to send several foster youth to summer camp, a day at Atlanta Zoo, Atlanta Botanical Gardens and the National Center for Civil and Human Rights, a successful Holiday Wish Program and Skate Party, as well as a successful Foster the Funk fundraising event!
Without your support, Camp Horizon would not be able to make this happen for many youth that have experienced foster care. As we move into the New Year, we strive to continue providing our youth with the necessary and required tools to become successful adults within the supportive, loving and caring environment. With this in mind, we hope you will close out your year by making a donation, of any amount, to support Camp Horizon as the needs of our foster will always be important and necessary to meet. Your donation can help us do all we can do to ensure a foster youth is thriving!
Cheers to another great year! If you have any questions now or into the New Year, don't hesitate to contact us.
Links:
We were able to have an in-person summer camp this year! The youth and volunteers were excited to be back together!
We were able to welcome back 20 kids and approximately 35 volunteers to summer camp. The youth were provided with a warm, loving and supportive environment, enjoying many of the activities and programs. Of the 20 approximately 7 were graduating from summer camp and moving to our Leadership Development Program. Those 7 completed their rock wall ceremony taking them to new heights.
For many of our foster youth, participating in the activities and camp with Camp Horizon is a highlight as well as offers them many opportunities they would not experience. They report feeling loved and supported while being able to enjoy the fun activities as well as teaching sessions.
Camp Horizon is now focusing on the remainder of our annual programming, the Leadership Development weekend and holiday program for the 2021 year.
Thank you for the support! Your support has helped us as we continue to serve our foster youth, meeting their needs.
With May being National Foster Care Awareness Month it was great for us to learn and share we are able to have our much needed and desired in-person summer camp. Often, youth in the foster care system have lived through multiple traumas and disruptive events by the time they begin their transition to adulthood. This can include abuse and/or neglect, multiple foster home placements, lack of continuity in education, and an array of losses of relationships (e.g., friends, family, and/or siblings). Their life experiences can create additional problems resulting in mental illness, substance abuse problems, unemployment, homelessness, and a lack of confidence. These challenges impact the emotional and social development of foster care youth as they transition into adulthood.
Camp Horizon was started in 1982 with the purpose to provide foster youth a supportive and caring environment while giving them the invaluable opportunity to participate in a sleepaway camp. Our program works with 8 - 24 year-olds and is dedicated to preparing our youth with the skills and relationships they will need to manage the process of aging out of foster care. Overcoming the effects of childhood abuse and/or neglect is a life-long process, but Camp Horizon's one-to-one mentor matching program, intentional life skills lessons, loyal volunteers, and family-like environment, help our campers by addressing the challenges and allowing them to consistently beat the dismal odds. Youth who are transitioning to adulthood need to have well-developed self-esteem and self-efficacy skills that equip them to manage relationships in multiple contexts, including education and employment settings, as well as with friends and family members. As research highlights, the importance of positive, supportive relationships will improve a foster youth’s trajectory. Ideally, foster youth should have connections to caring adults who can provide support, including helping them access necessary resources and services.
To have in-person summer camp return has been exciting and great news for our youth! Additionally, it's exciting to us as we understand the importance of a consistent supportive adult in a foster youth's life and how this support inevitably helps by reducing the number of foster care placement changes, increasing positive behavior, supporting the youth as they exit care, as well as increasing academic achievement.
Thank you for the support of Camp Horizon as we strive to mitigate the challenges our youth face and change the trajectory of their lives. Because of you, many of our youth feel supported and loved, better able to handle emotions, and receive the appropriate skills needed to be successful as an adult. Stay tuned for pictures from this year's camp!
Links:
Project Reports on GlobalGiving are posted directly to globalgiving.org by Project Leaders as they are completed, generally every 3-4 months. To protect the integrity of these documents, GlobalGiving does not alter them; therefore you may find some language or formatting issues.
If you donate to this project or have donated to this project, you will get an e-mail when this project posts a report. You can also subscribe for reports via e-mail without donating.
We'll only email you new reports and updates about this project.
