Metro Detroit Girl Scouts
Phone: 313-972-4475
Website: www.gssem.org
Offers many types of summer programs and camps. Scholarships are available!
Kids Burn Camp University of Michigan Burn Camp
Phone: 734-998-8451
Website: www.traumaburn.org
A child between the ages of 8 and 17 who has been treated for a burn injury in Michigan can attend the Kids Burn Camp with activities including swimming, horse-back riding and kayaking. Camp counselors include firefighters, nurses and therapists. The camp is scheduled for June 17-22nd at YMCA Camp Manitou-Lin in Middleville. Offered free because of donations, fund-raisers and community support.
Great Lakes Burn Camp
1709 N. West Ave.
Jackson MI 49202
Phone: 517-937-5527 OR 800-989-2571
Website: www.GreatLakesBurnCamp.org
Ages 6 to 17 who has been treated for a burn injury. Transportation is free as well as the camp. Camp will be at Pretty Lake Vacation Camp near Kalamazoo.
KOA Cancer Care Camps
Website: www.koa.com
(click on "Come Camp & Care With Us Weekend")
Sends children with cancer and their siblings to one of 35 special summer camps.
Camp Sunshine
35 Acadia Rd.
Casco ME 04215
Phone: 205-655-3800
Website: www.campsunshine.org
Sponsored by www.Camp Jellystone.com (family parks)
Free camps in Casco, Maine for children and their families with life-threatening illnesses.
Southeast Michigan Weekend Family Retreat
Taylor, MI 48180
Phone: 899-377-6226 ext 1-231 (Sheryl)
Website: www.epilepsyfoundation.org/michigan
This is a family retreat for children with epilepsy and their families. Activities will be led by highly-trained Epilepsy Foundation MSW staff. The retreat will be a mix of team-building exercises, psycho-educational sessions, and social activities. On this retreat you can expect to: have fun, discover strengths, build stronger family relationships, develop new skills, face challenges, and meet other families. All children who attend must be between the ages of 8 and 18.
Camp Discovery
Phone: 1-800-377-6226
Email: sdarroch@epilepsymichigan.org
Website: www.epilepsymichigan.org/campdiscovery
The Epilepsy Foundation of Michigan's Camp Discovery provides youth with epilepsy a safe, structured and encouraging home away from home for 5 days and 4 nights. Camp Discovery will be held at Sherman Lake YMCA Outdoor Center in Augusta, MI. Staff includes Foundation staff, pediatric neurologists, and Registered Nurse. Financial assistance is available. Space is limited! Also holds family retreats!
Youth Development Commission
1274 Library #201
Detroit MI 48226
Phone: 313-963-8916
Website: www.ydcdetroit.org
More than 1,000 Metro Detroit youths will spend their summer vacations participating in a variety of inter-active programs thanks to grants awarded earlier this year to community-based organizations. Provides positive youth development activities in Detroit, Hamtramck, and Highland Park. Check the website for programs in YOUR area!
Children's Hospital of Michigan/Project Challenge (Detroit Medical Center)
3901 Beaubien Street, 5th Floor
Detroit MI 48201
Phone: 313-745-4892 (program coordinator)
313-966-0601 (mentor/project coordinator)
A summer and winter day camp providing a full range of psychosocial and recreational programs to improve the quality of life for children infected or affected by HIV.
National Kidney Foundation of Michigan
Detroit/SEMDON Office
1900 E. Jefferson Ave., Suite 222
Detroit MI 48207
Website: http://www.nkfm.org
Programs include patient and family camps, peer mentoring. Scholarships available. Children's Camp is a week-long camping experience at Camp Copneconic in Fenton, MI where more than 30 children on dialysis or with a transplant, spend the week with 150 other campers who do not have kidney failure.
Hemophilia Foundation of Michigan
1921 W. Michigan Ave.
Ypsilanti, MI 48197
Phone: 800-482-3041
Website: http://www.hfmich.org
Camp for children ages 6 to 13 with hemophilia and related bleeding disorders.
Teaching Family Homes of Upper Michigan
100 Silver Creek Road
Marquette, MI 49855
Phone: 800-292-5260 OR 906-249-5437
Social service program offering treatment and care of troubled boys and girls throughout the country. Programs include summer camp.
Hartford Agape House
18515 James Couzens Hwy.
Detroit MI 48235
Phone: 313-861-1200
Provides youth and teen programming for the following zip code areas: 48221, 48219, 48235.
Little Scholars of Detroit Performing Arts Summer Camp
19000 Grand River
AND
Gompers Elementary
20601 W. Davison
Detroit MI
Phone: 313-272-2747
Day camp offering classes for children who want to try art, drama, music and dance. At the end of the camp, the children showcase their new talents in a production. (Funded by the Summer Dreams project of Detroit Free Press)
Detroit Hispanic Development Corp. Summer Youth Program
1211 Trumbull
Detroit MI
Phone: 313-967-4880
Website: www.dhdc1.org
The program serves children of all races and ethnicity ages 6 to 17 in southwest Detroit. (The camp's main source of funding is the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment and the Detroit Free Press's Summer Dreams Program).
City Mission
Phone: 313-541-3531
Website: www.city-mission.org
Four days, starting July 2nd at Huron Forest Camp Cherith, an interdenominational Christian camp in the Huron National Forest near Oscoda. The camp is about learning about God, swimming, nature, hunts, fishing, and other typical "camp stuff".
Challenge the Wind Youth Sailing Program
Harbor Hill Marina in Detroit
Phone: 313-224-4588
Website: www.grayhavensailclubdetroit.org
A summer camp that offers 10 to 18 year olds in Metro Detroit an opportunity to learn about sailing. Accepts a group of about 40 students from low-to-moderate income families.
Alternatives for Girls (Rise n' Shine)
Phone: 313-361-4000 ext. 230
Website: www.alternativesforgirls.org
A six-week summer program initiative sponsored by Alternatives for Girls. Fifty girls will participate in activities designed to broaden girl's horizons. Activities also include doing volunteer work.
Peoples IALAC Community Center/Peoples United Methodist Church
Pine Ridge Bible Camp
Phone: 313-342-7868
Runs from mid-June to August for youths age 5 to 18. Offers art, music, cooking, reading, field trips, etc.
The Greening of Detroit
1418 Michigan Avenue
Detroit MI 48216 Monday-Friday from June 29th to August 7th, 2009
Phone: 313-237-8733
Email: info@greeningofdetroit.com
Website: www.greeningofdetroit.com
Day camps for more than 700 Detroit, Hamtramck and Highland Park for children ages 3 to 17. The goal of the daylong camps is to instill in the children an appreciation of nature that starts in their neighborhoods and reaches the ends of the Earth.
Wayne-Metropolitan Community Action Agency
Phone: 313-843-2550
Website: www.waynemMetro.org
The KEY program---which stands for Keeping an Eye on Youth--serves about 60 kids each summer whose families live in the.Wayne County Family Center shelter in Westland, run by Lutheran Social Services of
Michigan. Homeless kids ages 5-17 will go on several field trip as well as other educational activities
Eagle Village Inc.'s Adventure Learning Center
4507 170th Ave.
Hershey MI 49639
Phone: 231-832-7253
Email: info@eaglevillage.org
Website: www.eaglevillage.org
Held at a 683-acre camp in Hershey in central-lower Michigan for kids ages 5 to 17, including those who have emotional or behavioral impairments. There are 14 sessions ranging from four to seven days and running from mid-June to mid-August. The camp philosophy is to create a positive environment that allows participants to develop a positive self-concept and learn the value of cooperation and support within a group.
Alkebu-lan Village
7701 Harper
Detroit MI 48213
Phone: 313-921-1616
Website: www.alkebu-lanvillage.org
An eight-week camp from 1 to 5 p.m. daily for ages 5 to 17. About 98% of the campers are African-American and about 95% are from low-income households. The camp focuses on math, language arts, social studies and physical fitness and includes activities such as gardening, martial arts, roller skating, African dance and drums, and hip-hop dance. There will also be career guidance for older students.
Fresh Air Society & Tamarack Camps
6735 Telegraph Road #380
Bloomfield Hills MI 48301
Phone: 248-647-1100
Email: tamarack@tamarackcamps.com
Website: www.tamarackcamps.com
A group of camps and experiences aimed at instilling a sense of community in Jewish children. Tamarack now has a wilderness camp in the Upper Peninsula, an outpost in Ontario, and it sponsors trips out West and to Alaska for older kids. This year, nearly 1,100 mostly Jewish children ages 7 to 14 from metro Detroit are to attend Tamarack Camp's residential summer program at Camp Maas in Ortonville. Kids can spend two or 3 1/2 weeks at the 1,500 acre camp. The youths come from all socioeconomic backgrounds, and one-third of them have a financial need.
Starfish Family Services
30000 Hiveley
Inkster MI 48141 10 week program beginning June 15th, 2009 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p..m
Phone: 734-727-3109
Website: www.starfishonline.org
Each summer Starfish offers as many as 250 children ages 6-12 an opportunity to garden, fish, and learn about the environment and about the foods they eat. There are also field trips.
Special Days Camps
Summer Camp:
7260 S. Stoney Lake Road
Jackson MI 48821
AND
Winter Camp:
6921 N. Stoney Lake Road
Jackson MI 48821
Phone: 734-717-5591
Website: www.specialdays.org
Special Days Camps will take place at the YMCA Camp Storer in Jackson, on 1,200 acres alongside Stoney Lake for kids who have had cancer and their siblings. The camp offers group games, sports, arts and crafts, boating and more, with activities separated by age groups. A medical staff is present 24/7. Supported by the Summer Dreams Project of the Detroit Free Press.
Kids Kicking Cancer
645 Griswold #444
Detroit MI 48226
Phone: 313-557-0021
Email: office@kidskickingcancer.net
Website: www.powerpeacepurpose.org
Founded for children in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties in 1999, and now includes children with other chronic diseases. Children with cancer, sickle-cell anemia and other illnesses focus on building strength to deal with pain, fear and anxiety. Offers a karate training program and will add day camp activities such as museum visits,sporting events and outdoor experiences to build camaraderie among the children and their relatives. Camps are also for the siblings.
Marygrove College Summer Theater Intensive Camp
8425 W. McNichols
Detroit MI 48221
Phone: 313-927-1561
Email: info@marygrove.edu
Website: www.marygrove.edu
The Institute of Music and Dance at Marygrove College each summer raises the curtain on 3 camps for 72 children ages 5 through 18. About 95% are from Detroit and 90% come from low-to moderate-income families. Different performing camps offered.
Offering Alternative Therapy with Smiles Inc. (OATS)
3090 Weidemann Drive
Clarkston MI 48348
Phone: 248-620-0505 OR 248-620-1775
Email: oatssmiles@aol.com
Website: www.oatshrh.org
OATS has a summer day camp for 2 weeks in July for children. The non-profit is housed on 50 acres near M-15 and Seymour Lake Road in Clarkston.
Crossroads for Youth
930 E. Drahner PO Box 9
Oxford MI 48371
Phone: 248-628-2561 ext. 250
Website: www.crossroadsforyouth.org OR www.adventure-center.org/campadventure.htm
On the shores of Handsome Lake, Adventure Camp welcomes 300 to 400 children from southeast Michigan from mid-June through mid-August and is run by Crossroads, a nonprofit children's services agency and offers various programs for children based on their needs. Some of the programs are designed for low-income youngsters ages 7 to 17 who have behavioral or emotional problems. Ask about scholarships!
Westside Cultural & Athletic Club's Summer Camp
Phone: 313-898-5185
Young people who participate in the program can enjoy baseball, softball, T-ball, basketball and track, plus field trips, a talent show, educational table games, a teen club and arts and crafts. The program serves about 170 low-income African-American, Native American, Arab-American and Hispanic children ages 5 to 18 who live in the area surrounded by I-94, I-96, Jackson Street and Scotten. Lunch is served.
Brightmoor Camp Adventure
14451 Burt Road
Detroit MI 48223
Phone: 313-531-0305
Email: brightmoorcomm@sbcglobal.net
Website: www.brightmoorcommunitycenter.org
Brightmoor Community Center staff will take children ages 6 to 12 to different Metroparks 4 days a week and they will also visit Greenfield Village and the Detroit Zoo. Children can sign up for one week or for the entire six-week program. About 80% of the children receive camperships for low-income families.
YMCA Storer Camps
7260 S. Stoney Lake Road
Jackson MI 49201
Phone: 800-536-8607
Website: www.ymcastorercamps.org
From June to August, the camps offer summer experiences for more than 1,600 kids from grades 2 to 12 in Jackson MI on 1,200 acres in the Irish Hills. Most of the children are from Michigan and Ohio. The camp's mission is to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice through various programs in the natural environment.
Clark Park Coalition
1130 Clark Street #207
Detroit MI 48209
Phone: 313-297-9328
Website: www.clarkparkcoalition.com
The camp, located at the Clark Park Recreation Center on Clark and the I-75 service drive, runs from the end of the school year to the start of school, about Aug. 21st from five days a week from 10:30 a.m. to sundown. The camp is free and serves about 100 youngsters, ages 9 to 17, almost all of them from households in the southwest Detroit neighborhood surrounding the center. The youngsters receive a free lunch and go on weekly field trips such as the zoo, museums, water parks or a baseball game.
Camp Starlight
Michigan Dyslexia Institute & Dyslexia Association of America
Phone: 517-485-4000
Website: www.dyslexia.net
Held at YMCA Lansing's Mystic Lake Camp, they spend most of the time enjoying traditional camp activities along with role-playing skits on issues they'll likely face, presentations by successful speakers who are dyslexic and instruction on developing reading and writing skills. Campers age 7 to 16 come from Michigan and out of state. About 46% receive full or partial camperships.
Camp Beechpoint
3212 125th Avenue
Allegan MI 49010
Phone: 800-991-2267
Email: beechpoint@datawise.net
Website: www.beechpoint.com
A non-denominational, Christian-theme camp along the shores of Dumont Lake in southwest Michigan each summer. For kids ages 8 to 14. Its primary purpose is to spread the gospel to urban youth through a quality Christian camping experience. Most participants are from the Chicago, Detroit and Grand Rapids areas. Eight one-week sessions that run from mid-June through the beginning of August
Grace Adventures
Phone: 231-873-3662
Website: www.graceadventures.org
The non-denominational Christian camp mixes worship and Bible studies with traditional camp fun at Grace Adventures youth camp on Upper Silver Lake just north of Muskegon. For ages 6 to 17. Last year, Grace Adventures provided nearly $40,000 in scholarships to 400 campers. Grace offers other summer programs, including camp for children dealing with loss, children from broken homes and for those who have been through the juvenile court system.
YWCA of Metropolitan Detroit/ Camp Cavell
3335 Lakeshore
Lexington MI 48450
Phone: 810-359-2267
Email: cavell@campcavell.org
Website: www.ywcadetroit.org
& www.campcavell.org
One overnight camp at Camp Cavell outside of Lexington, MI and 4 day camps in downtown Detroit, Clawson, Redford Twp., and Wyandotte. Ask about scholarships for low-income AND military children.
Think Detroit PAL (Police Athletic League)
111 West Willis
Detroit MI 48201
Phone: 313-833-1600
Email: generalinfo@thinkdetroitPAL.org
Website: www.thinkdetroitPAL.org
The programs serves about 1,600 youngsters ages 4 to 19, with hundreds of volunteers from throughout metro Detroit. Think Detroit PAL focuses on building character. Its coaches go through three levels of training so they can recognize moments when they should stop and teach life lessons, such as when a team loses a game. The programs fields about 100 baseball, T-ball and softball teams.
Plymouth Township Youth Police Academy
9955 N. Haggerty Road
Plymouth MI 48170
Phone: 734-453-3840
Website: www.plymouthtwp.org/Services/PoliceDept/
CommunityResourcesServices/youthpolicyacademy.htm
The free program is open to just 24 students currently in grades 6-8. Topics are to include patrol procedures, SWAT, criminal law and accident investigations. Applications are available at school counselor's offices and at the Police Dept.
Macomb County CARE
31900 Utica Road
Fraser MI 48026
Phone: 586-541-0033
Website: www.careofmacomb.com
Sponsors a free youth support camp for kids, ages 6-15, who are concerned about a family member's substance abuse problem or have a family member in recovery.
Detroit Children's Museum Friends
5134 Second Avenue
Detroit MI 48202
Phone: 313-873-8100
Website: www.detroitchildrensmuseum.org
Four hour-long sessions will be held Wednesdays and Thursdays. Children ages 4-12 can go to just one session or all four. Participants have come from all over metro Detroit and programs will incorporate everything from African drumming to storytelling to puppetry. The camp tries to educate children about the rest of the world.
Great Improvement Summer Camp
Phone: 313-850-9314
Registration June 9th for boys and girls ages 8-17 for programs in baseball, basketball, soccer, golf and step team. $15 per child.
Young Adult Retreat for Cancer Survivors
18505 W. Twelve Mile Road
Southfield MI 48076
Phone: 248-557-5353
Website: www.cancer.org/retreat
Cancer survivors between the ages of 16-20 years old are invited to attend a four-day summer retreat, compliments of the American Cancer Society.
Salvation Army of Monroe
815 E. First Street
Monroe MI 48161
Phone: 734-241-0440
Website: www.salvationarmyusa.org
To register a child, fill out an application at the above address.
Youth Police Academy
45175 W. Ten Mile Road
Novi MI 48375
Phone: 248-347-0538
Website: www.cityofnovi.org
Anyone between the ages of 13 and 18 can apply for the free Youth Academy. During the academy, officers will talk to teenagers about patrolling the community, the K9 program, firearms and crime scene investigations. This is the second year of the academy. For an application, teens should go to the city's website.
Wyandotte Recreation Department Volleyball Clinic
The Wyandotte Recreation Dept. is sponsoring a youth volleyball clinic at Wyandotte BASF Park. Its a
co-ed clinic for Wyandotte children ages 10 to 14 who want to learn the fundamentals of volleyball, including passing, setting, serving and spiking; basic game strategies; and daily competitions. The clinic ends with a tournament. This free program is coached by current and former players from Roosevelt High School.
Schoolcraft College
18600 Haggerty Road
Livonia MI 48152
Phone: 734-462-4400
Website: www.schoolcraft.cc.mi.us/
Camp 9-1-1
Phone: 734-477-6781 Jason Trojan
Email: jtrojan@hva.org
Monroe County Ambulance will hold its free, two-day annual Camp 9-1-1 day camps for those ages 8-12 at two locations in Monroe County. The day camps activities include touring an ambulance, learning cardiopulmonary resuscitation and visiting a local emergency room. MCA paramedics and emergency medical technicians serve as "camp counselors", teaching campers about safety at home
and at play, how to perform lifesaving skills on injured victims and all about emergency service careers.
Maplegrove Camp Trenton camp July 27-31st, 2009
Phone: 734-285-4001 OR 248-661-6170 Taylor camp August 10-14, 2009
Email: MCE_CP@hfhs.org Wyandotte camp in conjunction with Salvation Army
Free educational and support program and summer camp for children ages 5-18 to help children in families with alcohol or other drug abuse, mental illness or other extraordinary stress, learn skills to promote healthy and safe behavior, with a special program for parents.
Bloomfield Township Library
1099 Lone Pine Road (and Telegraph)
Bloomfield Hills, MI 48302-2410
Phone: 248-642-5800 TTY: 248-642-5983
Website: www.btpl.org
Children ages 9-14 can attend a crime-lab workshop at the library. With help from the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, workshop participants will read clues, conduct procedures to find the culprit, match evidence, rule out suspects and discover what reasonable doubt is all about.
Grosse Ile Golf & Country Club Driving Range
9339 Belleville
Grosse Ile MI
Phone: 734-785-7705 ext. 7153
A free youth golf clinic for children ages 7 and up to kick off the annual Budd Lynch Celebrity Golf
Classic to benefit the Guidance Center. Children will be taught proper golfing technique and will have
the opportunity to participate in contests and fun activities for a chance to win prizes. Participants will receive a free snack and coupons and are eligible for a drawing for movie passes and a bowling party. Children must be accompanied by an adult and are encouraged to bring their own clubs. Demonstration clubs will be available for children who need them.
Camp Mak-A-Dream
Children's Oncology Camp Foundation
PO Box 1450
Missoula, MT 49806
Phone: 406-549-5987
Email: camp@montana.com
Website: www.campdream.org
A medically run,cost-free camp for children ages 6 up to young adult age 25 with cancer. There is also a sibling camp experience too!
Camp Fire USA
16250 Northland Dr.
Southfield MI 48075
Phone: 248-559-5840
Website: http://comnet.org/campfire
Wathana Summer Day Camps, After-school programs and residential outdoor camp.
Camp MICHI-MAC July 19-25, 2009
Asthma & Allergy Foundation of America--Michigan Chapter
17520 West 12 Mile Suite 102
Southfield MI 48076
Phone: 586-465-0163
Website: www.aafamich.org
For children ages 8 to 15 with significant asthma who are on daily med's & might be at-risk attending "regular" camp. Financial assistance available!
FA-HO-LO Deaf Family Camps
3000 Mt. Hope Road
Grass Lake MI 48240
Phone: 517-522-6800
Website: www.hvcn.org
For deaf children ages 4-18 and their families. Sliding fees/family discounts and scholarships available.
Lions Bear Lake Camp
3409 North Five Lakes Road
Lapeer MI 48446
Phone: 810-245-0726
Website: www.bearlakecamp.org
A camp for kids age 4-18 who have visual or hearing impairments.
The Rainbow Connection
621 W. University
Rochester MI 48307
Phone: 248-601-9474
Email: info@rainbowconnection.org
Website: www.rainbowconnection.org
A camp for ill children ages 3 to 18.
For a list of many more camps across the nation that accept children from Michigan, go to this national website of The Hole In The Wall Gang Camps: www.holeinthewallcamps.org Some are free and some require private funds. Created by actor Paul Newman.
Trails Edge Camp
Mott Respiratory Care
200 E. Hospital Drive
Ann Arbor MI 48109-0208
Phone: 313-763-2420
Email: mdekeon@umich.edu
No cost to campers who have special medical needs. Campers must have tracheotomies or need
ventilator assistance and are ages 3 to 18. Held at Camp Fowler in Mayville, 30 miles north of Lapeer.
KIDS ON THE GO
St. John Macomb-Oakland Hospital
Phone: 248-967-7917
Pediatric program designed to provide special needs children (3 to 6 years) in tri-county area with physical, occupational and speech therapy during the summer months.
Catholic Youth Organization Summer Camp Program
Phone: 810-622-8744 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Website: www.cyocamps.org
Provides a safe and affordable camp experience for youth ages 7-16 years old.
Seedlings
PO Box 51924
Livonia MI 48151-5924
Phone: 734-427-8552 OR 800-777-8552
Email: info@seedlings.org
Website: www.seedlings.org
Summer reading program for blind children
WINGS
Positive Social Opportunities Network
Wings Over The Lake
Applegate MI
Phone: 810-359-2800
Email: info@wingsmi.org
Website: www.wingsmi.org/index.html
A camp for those of all ages with HIV/AIDS that is free or low-cost.
The Greater Detroit Agency for the Blind & Visually Impaired
16625 Grand River
Detroit MI 48227 2 two-week sessions, July 20th -Aug. 21st, 2009
Phone: 313-272-3900
Website: www.gdabvi.org
Offers a Summer Enrichment Camp for children who are blind or visually-impaired with activities to help them become more independent. The camp offers activities that help children ages 6 to 15 learn daily living skills, such as cooking, cleaning and money management, while also participating in activities such as judo and rock-climbing.
Allen Park Martial Arts Center
7318 Park Ave.
Allen Park MI 48101
Phone: 313-928-5288
Dr. Matthew Gonzalez, a clinical psychologist and neuropsychologist, owns the Center and wants to use his business as a way to alleviate some of the stresses faced by children of Veterans. The Center will provide martial arts scholarships to children of soldiers serving in Iraq or Afghanistan (ages 3 to 14), who have a parent who has died or become significantly disabled as a direct result of combat deployment.
Camp Grace Bentley
Michigan League for Crippled Children
Phone: 313-962-8242
Website: www.campgracebentley.org
The camp accepts boys and girls, ages 7 to 17 with disabilities that range from cerebral palsy and spina bifida to autism and Down syndrome. For nine days in 4 different sessions each summer (running from late June through mid-August), there is lifeguard-supervised swimming, arts & crafts, plays and skits, movie nights, campfires and sing-a-longs, team sports and a Friday night dance. At the session end,
each camper goes home with a DVD of their camp experience. $400 for nine days BUT sponsorships are available for those who have limited resources!
Epilepsy Foundation
Website: www.epilepsyfoundation.org
Joining forces with Outward Bound to offer a 7 day Outward Bound adventure in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado to young people age 16 to 25 with epilepsy.
Limited scholarships may be available!
Outward Bound
910 Jackson Street
Golden CO 80401
Phone: 207-230-5600
Email: shauver@outwardboung.org for financial scholarships
wcoombs@outwardbound.org for general info
Upward Bound
Wayne State University Main Campus/ACCESS & U.S. Dept. of Education
Phone: 313-577-7777 William Tandy
Live on campus like a college student. Upward Bound provides a wide range of academic support services for Detroit-area students. The program has two phases: a six-week residential program held on the WSU campus, and an eight-month after-school tutorial and counseling program. 9th and 10th graders and first-semester 11th graders from Detroit and Inkster public high schools are eligible. Participants MUST be their family's first generation to enter college and/or low-income and need academic support.
No application deadline. Applications can be obtained from the Upward Bound office or Detroit or Inkster public high schools. FREE! Ages 14 to 17.
Math Corps. Summer Camp and High School Bridge Program
Wayne State University Main Campus
Phone: 313-577-2609
Email: agraziana@wayne.edu Anne Graziana
Website: www.mathcorps.org
A six-week mathematics enrichment and mentoring program in which Detroit middle and high-school students learn mathematics together with college students in a college setting. Detroit public schools or charter school students entering grades 7 through 12th in fall 2009 are eligible. Applications are available at eligible schools or www.mathcorps.org (http://www.mathcorps.org). Ages 11 to 18. FREE!
Detroit NASA SEMAA Program
Wayne State University and NASA
4841 Cass Ave. 1147 Old Main Building
Detroit MI 48201
Email: dawnj@wayne.edu Dawnesia Johnson
Website: http://www.detroitsemaa.com
A one-week hands-on science based program for students in grades K-12 from 9 a.m. until noon. With a curriculum planned by NASA, the goal is to encourage students to pursue careers in STEM related areas.
FREE! Ages 5 to 18.
Project SEED (Summer Educational Experience for Disadvantaged Students)
Wayne State University Dept. of Chemistry
Phone: 313-577-0278 Keith Williams
Email: ac1573@wayne.edu
Selected high school students, currently at the junior and senior levels, will engage in research projects under the direction of WSU facility, with a final research paper drafted at the end of the program. Students will also participate in workshops on directed at applying for college, and searching for scholarships.
Additionally participants go on field trips to various chemistry-related structures in the area. Eligible students should have excelled in a chemistry course, meet the income requirement, desire to pursue chemistry as a major in college, and are in good academic standing. Applications are available via email. Research assignments are made in early June. FREE and students are paid!
E-Commerce Summer Camp
5201 Cass Avenue, Prentis Building
Detroit MI
Phone: 313-577-4510 Kiantee Rupert-Randall
Email: AG2233@wayne.edu
Established in 2001 to address the need to increase tomorrow's workforce so it is prepared to use the ever-increasing applications of technology. The Camp is an intensive nine-week experience for students completing their junior year in high school. During the morning of the first four weeks, the campers are taught computer skills and applications as well as the business and behavioral skills necessary to succeed in the professional work setting. Each afternoon, the students go to their paid internship where they apply the skills they have learned. Students spend the final five weeks of the summer full-time on their internships. The camp ends with a graduation ceremony attended by dignitaries, family and friends. In addition to the paid internship, experience and education, all campers receive certificates of completion. The top third students who demonstrate exceptional performance and participation in the Camp are awarded a new computer system! FREE with paid internship!
Salvation Army Outdoors Program
Phone: 877-725-6424
Website: www.salmich.org
A program designed to provide disadvantaged youths and families with entertaining and educational outdoor experiences. Participants join in activities such as fishing, boating, walking, biking, camping and hunting. It not only introduces children to the outdoor activities but it also encourages them to continue the hobbies by supplying them with camping equipment, fishing poles, coats and other supplies. This program will offer outdoor activities to more than 106,000 children though social service programming and Salvation Army community centers.
Camp Kesem
Website: http://www.campkesem.org/michigan
Run by both Michigan State and University of Michigan for children affected by a parent's cancer.
Friends of Jacob Foundation
200 Kirts Blvd., Suite D
Troy MI 48084
Phone: 586-596-9197
Email: Keith@friendsofjacob.org
Website: www.friendsofjacob.org
The Friends of Jacob Foundation is a 501(c)3 charity dedicated to providing a vacation of a lifetime and a network of support to families with children who have Autism or other Pervasive Development Disabilities
(PDD's). Each year the foundation will organize the ultimate family vacation for a large group of families with special needs children by providing the transportation and accommodations for them to travel and experience the magic together.
The Sporting Lands Alliance
333 E. Second Street
Rochester MI 48307
Phone: 248-601-1241
Email: info@sportinglandsalliance.org
Website: www.sportinglandsalliance.org
Takes disabled adults and children out to enjoy the resources of Michigan!
The National Center for Health Marketing's Global Health Odyssey Museum
Website: www.cdc.gov/gcc/exhibit/camp.htm
Will be offering the 2009 CDC Disease Detective Camp (DDC). DDC is an academic day camp for students who will be high school juniors and seniors during the 2009-2010 school year. Campers will take on the roles of disease detectives and learn how the CDC safeguards the nations's health. The camp will be offered twice from June 22-26 and July 13-17, 2009. For more info and to apply, see the website.
Deadline is April 20th, 2009. This camp is FREE!
American Legion
Website: www.legion.org/programs/youthprograms/boystate#
Sponsors a week-long summer leadership program called Boys State. This year's program will be held
at McDaniel College in Westminster, Maryland. If you are a junior interested in a leadership opportunity, see your guidance counselor ASAP for more information or check the above website. This camp is FREE!
City Year, Washington DC (Americorps)
918 U Street, NW , 2nd Floor
Washington DC
Phone: 202-776-7780
Email: cmurphy@cityyear.org/dc
Website: www.cityyear.org
Graduating seniors who are not sure what they want to do after high school, should consider applying
for a paid community service position with City Year, a group of 17-24 year olds committed to full-time service for ten months in the Washington, DC community. Benefits include: living stipend ($200 per week), health care coverage, free metro pass, and $4,725 educational scholarship.
The Salvation Army Detroit Brightmoror Corps Summer Day Camp
15133 Burgess
Detroit MI 48223
Phone: 313-532-1500
Website: www.neighborhoodlink.com/clubhome.html?inclubid=258183106&nsupercity=178452061
Runs a day camp during the summer to provide a safe, fun and affordable place where children can spend the summer months playing and learning, give the youth experiences to see what is outside of their neighborhood, provide youth leadership and training to teenagers as well as conflict resolution, organizational skills and leadership skills. Also for teenagers to gain the respect of the younger children by acting maturely, enforcing the rules and standing behind their decisions.
Salvation Army Grandale Corps
Phone: 313-835-3736
Website: See above
The 6-week summer program is geared for children ages 6 to 12, and includes daily activities of arts and crafts, character building and devotion. The summer day camp runs from 9 am to 3 p.m. weekdays. It serves about 50 children in low-income families in the Grandale neighborhood of Detroit.
Salvation Army Harbor Light System
Phone: 313-361-6136
Emotional, physical, mental and spiritual development for homeless and/or low-income children. Character building, recreation, arts and crafts, field trips and a traditional camping experience.
Salvation Army Downriver
Phone: 734-282-0930 OR 734-282-0933
Website: www.sadownriver.org
Summer Day Camp program strives to be a spiritual as well as a positive character-building program.
Salvation Army Harding Corps.
Phone: 313-822-2800
Website: www.salmich.org
Educational activities, arts and crafts, etiquette and more.:
Salvation Army Royal Oak Citadel
Phone: 248-585-5600
Website: www.royaloaksal.org
Salvation Army Temple Corps.
Phone: 313-897-2914
Website: www.usc.Salvationarmy.org/mi
Field trips, a talent show and daily structured indoor and outdoor activities.
Salvation Army Warren Worship & Service Center
Phone: 586-754-7400
A safe, structured environment of field trips, beach days, Bible classes, art & crafts, cooking, singing, and
recreation.
Camping OUT
19641 West 7 Mile Road
Detroit MI 48219
Phone: 313-537-7000
Website: www.tri.org
A national youth summer camp for GLBT youth and allies ages 13-17. In addition to traditional summer
fun, campers choose from a large selection of activities, discussions and presentations designed to develop their leadership and organizing skills.
Detroit HIspanic Development Corporation
1211 Trumbull
Detroit MI 48216
Phone: 313-967-4880
Website: www.dhdc1.org
Operates "Summer Youth" during the summer for youths ages 11-18. Older youth ages 14-18 are able
to gain work experience and training while earning minimum wage. All youth participate in substance
abuse and violence prevention workshops, weekly field trips and community service projects.
Connecting Families
Matrix Human Services
Phone: 313-526-4000
Website: www.matrixhumanservices.org
Runs an eight-week summer program designed to give youths a fun experience focusing on areas including literacy, nutrition and accountability. The camp operates from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday-Thursday from June 22nd to August 21st, 2009. Also has a year-round program including after-school tutoring, computer literacy and arts & recreation.
Foundation for Exceptional Children
Phone: 313-885-8660
The five-week camp runs Monday-Friday and is housed in the Grosse Pointe Memorial Church and offers
a beautiful playground on Lake St. Clair. Serving up to 36 children ages 3-16, the foundation provides a memorable summer camp experience for children with special needs. It stresses structured learning activities for children with disabilities such as autism, cerebral palsy, cognitive impairments and other seizure disorders.
Holley Ear Institute One-week sessions June 21st to August 26th, 2009
Phone: 313-343-4084
Website: www.stjohn.org/hei
At Holley Family Village in Brooklyn, hearing-impaired campers, ages 18 months to 18 years, are given a summer camp experience catered to their unique needs. Participants learn enhanced communication skills and get lessons in visual and performing arts. A primarily deaf staff runs the program adding the extra dimension of positive role models for campers.
Judson Center
Phone: 248-549-4339
Website: www.judsoncenter.org
About 500 southeast MI children from pre-schoolers to those age 18, largely from lower-income families, go through the summer program at Judson Center each year. The Judson Center offers about 20 services, ranging from foster care to residential care. It has 3 respite homes and six group homes for
autistic's.
Latino Family Services
Phone: 313-841-7380
A summer day camp for kindergarten through high school in southwest Detroit. In addition, character building and alcohol-and-drug-prevention programs, kids also immerse themselves in the fun stuff, like painting and computer animation and trips to a wave pool.
Lighthouse PATH
130 Center Street
Pontiac MI
Phone: 248-335-1950
Website: www.lighthouseoakland.org
A Montessori-based summer day camp in Pontiac that runs eight hours a day, Monday-Friday from June 22nd to August 28th. Many are the children of once-homeless mothers now participating in Lighthouse PATH, a two-year residential program in Pontiac.
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit
Phone: 313-872-6810 ext 4016
Website: www.mosaicdetroit.org
Classes taught by professional artists foster a child's abilities in acting, singing and movement while introducing them to other aspects of the arts. Each camp session culminates in a performance at the General Motors Mosaic Theatre at 610 Antoinette,in Detroit. About half the participants are from Detroit,
with the remaining coming from the suburbs. Camp is in session six hours a day, Monday through
Friday in three-week sessions held June 29th-August 14th, 2009.
Neighborhood Centers (Urban Neighborhood Initiatives)
All Saints Neighborhood Center
8300 Longworth
Detroit MI
Phone: 313-841-4447
Website: www.e-nci.org
A day program that runs weekdays from June 15th to August 9th along with a family camp at Camp
Dearborn for up to 50 youth and family members each summer. Keeps about 150 southwest Detroit youths ages 6 to 18 busy with a variety of activities and educational field trips.
Orchards Children's Services
Phone: 248-593-1576
Website: www.orchards.org
Orchards Summer Adventuamps has three day camps and three overnight camps that offers recreational and educational services for children in Wayne, Oakland and Macomb counties. The three day camps are the Y camp in Detroit, the Y camp in Macomb County and Super Summer Day Camp in Birmingham. The
overnight camps are Camp Sea-gull, Camp Tanuga, in partnership with the Bear Hug Foundation and
Camp Copneconic. Camps serve children as young as 3 years old to high-schoolers. The camps serve about 200 children, many of whom are referred by the Department of Human Services.
Peoples IALAC Community Center
Peoples United Methodist Church
19370 Greenfield
Detroit MI
Phone: 313-963-5353
The church runs a vacation school on Monday afternoons and a summer program which runs Tuesday
through Friday, June 16th-August 15th from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. each day for ages 5 to 17. The last week
of the program features a residentail camp experieance at Judson Collins Camp in Onsted for the particpants in sixth grade and up. The younger children end the program with a cookout at Lake Erie
Metropark.
Sickle Cell Disease Association
Phone: 313-864-4406
Sickle Cell Disease Association of Michigan will sponsor children this summer, but limit the first 25
spots to first-time campers to offer more kids the experience of attending a camp where their activities
are integrated with others who don't have their debilitating disease. SCDAA's campers are 8 to 17 years
old, most from low-income families. This year camp is from June 27th to July 3rd, 2009.
Arab Community Center for Economic & Social Services (ACCESS)
Salina Elementary
Dearborn MI
Phone: 313-842-6757
Website: www.accesscommunity.org
A six-week academic enrichment program runs Monday through Thursday and accomodates up to 180 low-income elementary students ages 6-12. Math and reading enrichment are offered as well as computer instruction. Thursdays are field trip days!
Camp Fire USA
Phone: 248-559-5840
Website: www.campfireUSA.org
Provides camping opportunities for children ages 8-17 who live in S.E. Michigan and northwestern Ohio
at a weeklong residential camp at Camp Wathana in Holly.
Bear Hug Foundation
Phone: 248-594-7000
Website: www.thebearhugfoundation.org
Each summer for 8 three-day camping sessions in July and August, the foundation sends more than 300 campers, ages 6-17 to Camp Tanuga near Kalkaska. The camp mixes sports and crafts with character-building lessons. Some students are developmentally disabled children and some campers need a one-on-one counselor because of theirspecial needs.
Vision Hope Community Development Corp.
Phone: 586-362-2431
Website: www.visionhope.org
The two one-week resident camps will be held the weeks of July 13 and 20th, 2009 and are designed to help severly abused and neglected children. The camp has served nearly 500 children, most between the ages of 7 and 11.
Life Organization of Detroit
Phone: 313-965-7862
Full-day, 10-week summer camp for low-income youths ages 5-13 who are falling behind in school
academically and/or socially.
MSU Extension 4- Youth Development Oakland County
Phone: 248-979-2212 OR 248-858-1018
Website: www.msue.msu.edu/oakland
Michigan Technological University's Summer Youth Programs
Phone: 906-487-2219
Website: www.youthprograms.mtu.edu
More than70 exci
ting pre-college career explorations, ranging from wolf ecology to learning to build bridges, dams and skyscrapers. Residential experience gives participants a taste of college life.
New Center Community Mental Health
Phone: 313-961-3720
Website: www.newcentercmhs.org
Drugs, gangs, violence prevention and mental health resiliency program equips youth with the skills, knowledge and self-esteem they need to make responsible decisions. Helps parents-caregivers, teachers and others become primary prevention partners.
Rainbow Alliance
Phone: 248-486-3872
Website: www.camprainbear.com
Provides a safe, accepting and enriching recreational environment to children and families who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS.
Save Our Children
Phone: 313-538-8240 OR 313-580-9186
Basketball camp teaches boys and girls regardless of ability levels to develop leadership skills, improveall skills and appreciate physical fitness.
Second Mile Center
Phone: 313-245-5252
Website: www.secondmilecenter.org
Weekly themes include competitive sports, woodworking and crafts, jewelry making, bicycle and small equipment repair, overnight camping, book club and chess, and field trips.
Skyline Camp & Conference Center
Phone: 248-644-2043
Website: campskyline.org
Camp for differently-abled campers. Outdoor activities, field games, drumming, arts and crafts, nature hikes, geocoaching, fishing, swimming and canoeing.
St. Louis Center for Exceptional Children & Adults
Phone: 734-475-9430
Website: www.stlouiscenter.org
Children with developmental disabilites enjoy crafts, hikes, parties, group sports and trips to Tiger games and the zoo.
Wayne County 4-H Community Center
Phone: 313-833-3419 OR 313-921-5080
Website: http://Detroit4hcommunity.tripod.com
Team sports, agricultural education, literacy, field trips teen leadership training activities.
Westside Cultural & Athletic Club
Phone: 313-898-5185
Website: www.wcac-detroit.com
Free constructive activities for children from at-risk homes. Sports, life skills sessions, conflict resolution, arts and crafts, job training and field trips.
The YES Foundation
Phone: 248-646-5696
Website: www.theyesfoundation.org
Early elementary kids develop reading skills in a cheerful nature-focused camp environment. Weekly themes about bugs, birds and fish, tied to field trips, make learning fun.
The Front Porch
Phone: 313-300-2766
Website: www.frontporchdetroit.org
Youths read Detroit Public Library books and do science experiments and art projects. They walk 2 miles a day to lessons at local swimming pools, get tennis instruction and learn about positive food choices.
Franklin-Wright Settlements
Phone: 313-579-1000
Website: www.franklinwright.org
Working with low-income Detroit youth to improve their cognitive, emotional and physical well-being.
Wide variety of games, activities and sports.
Joshua Harvest Ministries
Phone: 248-333-1320
Website: www.joshuaharvestministries.org
Four-week summer camp for Wayne County and Oakland County youths where they earn a weekly
stipend and use skills learned in financial literacy and entrepreneurship development to operate their own business in a mock marketplace.
Joy of Jesus
Website: www .joyofjesus.org
Urban youths trade city life for a week or more to explore nature, themselves, and community life. Hiking, fishing, canoeing, archery, obstacle courses, swimming, group studies, talent shows, teamwork and lots of encouragement.
