Fresh air, new friends, crafts, and of course campfire skits: Even medically-fragile kids can be happy campers at summer camps designed for their specific needs.
PHS encourages families to consider summer camp for their kids. Counselors, staff members, cooks, guides, therapists, and 24-hour on-call health care professionals bring unique training, expertise, and enthusiasm for working with medically-fragile kids. Most of all, kids learn they’re not at all alone. And who can resist learning new camp songs?!
Check out this information about summer camps for medically-fragile kids in the Twin Cities and surrounding areas.
If you don’t see a camp that fits the need of you or your child and you are a PHS patient, please contact Social Worker Monica Handlos at 651-789-9215 or email her at mlhandlos@pediatrichomeservice.com. You may also contact United Way First Call for Help for additional camps at 651-291-0211 or 1-800-543-7709.
Asthma Camp for kids ages 7 – 16 with asthma.
- Super Kids Camp in Loretto (just west of Minneapolis)
- July 11 – 16, 2011
- Applications due: May 20, 2011.
AuSM Summer Camps for children and young adults with autism. Camp brochures are mailed to current AuSM members, and only current AuSM members are eligible for camp. Sessions include:
- Camp Hand in Hand near Brainerd
- June 18 – 23 for boys 9 – 16
- July 3 – 8 for boys 14 – 21
- July 31 – Aug 5 for boys 9 – 11 and girls 9 – 21
- Wahode Day Camps in Eagan
- Week 1: June 27 – July 1 for ages 8 – 14
- Week 2: July 18 – 22 for ages 6 – 12
- Week 3: Aug 9 – 12 for ages 8 – 14
- Camp Discovery for ages 10-21 with Asperger Syndrome, near Maple Lake
- June 25 – July 1 for ages 10 – 21
- July 3 – 8 for boys 10 – 21
- Discovery Extreme Adventure: July 8 – 11 for ages 10 – 21
Camp Needle Point for children ages 5 – 16 with diabetes. Sessions at Camp St. Croix in Hudson, Wisc., include:
- August 15 – 19 (day camp) for ages 5 – 9
- August 14 – 20
- August 21 – 27
- Registration is now open.
Camp Odayin for children with heart disease:
- Residential Camp July 18 – 22 for ages 14 – 15, July 25 – 29 for ages 16 – 17, August 8 – 12 for ages 8 – 11, August 15 – 19 ages 11 – 13
- Day Camp August 1 – 5 for ages 6 – 7
- Family Camp October 21 – 23
- Applications are available now and due in early May. Family Camp applications are available in August and due early October.
Kamp Kace for school-age children in all stages of cancer treatment
Camp M.A.S.H Make. Arthritis. Stop. Hurting. Camp for children ages 9-17 who have arthritis or a related illness. Camp located at the Easter Seal Center for Camping and Recreation, one mile north of the Wisconsin Dells.
- August 6- 11
- Registration is now open.
- Reserve your child spot with a $25.00 deposit by May 1st.
Courage Center has many camp sessions for many interests. They also offer camps for independent and active adults Ages 18 and family camps.
- Literacy, for campers who are struggling readers
- June 19 – 24
- ages 12 – 18
- For Campers with physical disabilities or visual impairments:
- Youth session: July 18 – 23, ages 7 – 12
- Teen session: July 18 – 23, Ages 13 – 17
- For campers with communication disorders:
- July 31 – Aug 6
- ages 7 – 14
- Leadership for teens with physical disabilities or sensory impairments:
- July 31 – Aug 6
- ages 13 – 17
- Hemophilia:
- July 10 – 16
- This session is co-sponsored by the Hemophilia Foundation of Minnesota and Dakotas. It is geared for children who have hemophilia and other related bleeding disorders.
- Oncology/Blood Disorder session:
- July 25 – 29, ages 7 – 17
- This session is co-sponsored by Children’s Hospitals and Clinics-Minneapolis and The Miracles of Mitch Foundation. It is geared for children who have or had leukemia or other blood disorders, brain tumors and other forms of cancer.
- Application deadline is May 20.
Have your kids attended summer camp? Which sessions can you recommend? We’d like to hear about it. If you have photos of your happy campers, we’d love to see those, too.
