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Leadership camps provide opportunities for students to develop independence, confidence and positive values, and valuable leadership skills.

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• Adirondack Leadership Expeditions

  Adirondack Leadership Expeditions is a character development wilderness program for troubled teens that promotes personal growth through a focus on insight-oriented experiences. The forested, mountain setting removes urban distractions and simplifies options to help students gain insight into their core values and accept responsibility for their choices. Our wilderness program's nurturing approach helps participants address personal issues, achieve success in a safe environment, and develop their leadership potential. Wilderness programs for troubled teens serve as excellent alternatives to boot camps because teens learn through natural consequences and positive peer relationships.

• Academic Camps at Gettysburg College

  At the Academic Camps at Gettysburg College, students collaborate with a committed and creative faculty and enjoy a wide range of special events and social opportunities.

• Camp Arowhon

  Camp Arowhon's mission is to give every camper a safe place, physically and emotionally; for children to learn activity skills and return home more confident; a camping experience rich with caring, learning and respect.

• Camp Birch Trails

  Camp Birch Trails provides girls with opportunities to develop independence, confidence and leadership skills, to nurture positive values such as caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. Girls build lifelong skills at camp, while making new friends and special memories.

• Camp Robin Hood

  At Camp Robin Hood not only do campers and students have fun but they learn skills, share experiences and make friends that last a lifetime.

• Camp Sloane

  Camp Sloane's motto is OTHERS. This communicates the importance of the values on which Sloanes philosophy is based. An individualized, elective approach to numerous activity choices is age-appropriate and instructional, providing for skill progression and achievement.

• Camp St. John’s Northwestern

  Camp St. Johns Northwestern, accredited by the American Camping Association, is an exciting adventure camp for boys with the mission to motivate campers to understand their potential through a structured program that combines military and adventure skills training.

• Camp Temagami

  Camp Temagami offers a complete summer camp experience with focus on the art of traditional canoe travel that gives campers the opportunity to gain an understanding of the importance of a balanced lifestyle and an appreciation for the Canadian wilderness.

• Capital Camps

  Capital Camps is an independent non-profit organization and a beneficiary agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater Washington. The main purpose of the camp is to provide a summer camp program for children and retreat opportunities to the Jewish community.

• Colvig Silver Camps

  Colvig Silver Camps' mission is to facilitate the development of caring, thoughtful, and responsible human beings. Their philosophy is environmentally oriented and non-competitive, and our choice based format is designed to develop self-esteem, leadership skills, responsibility, and teamwork.

• Middlesex County 4-H Camp

  The mission of Middlesex County 4-H Camp is to encourage cooperative group living in a natural environment that focuses on the individual's social, spiritual, mental and physical development.

• Moondance Adventures

  Moondance is a wilderness-based adventure program that offers young people a variety of carefully designed, safe and supportive outdoor expeditions. Their programs provide an unforgettable journey into the backcountry of some of the world's most beautiful and pristine wilderness areas.

• Nawa Academy

  At Nawa Academy growth is facilitated through blending fun, challenge and excitement with learning. Students are often amazed by how much they have accomplished and grown through their experience.

• One Step At A Time

  The One Step At A Time camps offer safe, "normal" fun to kids regardless of their need for medical treatment, subject to the treating doctor's consent. The status of the child's therapy does not influence eligibility for camp or participation in camp activities. Children may be undergoing therapy, completely off therapy or be ineligible for further therapy. Health professionals are continuously on site to provide blood counts, chemotherapy or any other medical assistance that might be required.

• Sidwell Summer

  Each Sidwell Summer program strives to instill feelings of self-worth and confidence in every camper and to encourage cooperation and consideration of others by celebrating diversity and believing in the unique worth of each individual.

• Summer Youth Adventures

  Summer Youth Adventures offers participants a wonderful opportunity to experience the wilderness like never before, make lifelong friends, and have a summer they'll never forget.

• SuperCamp

  SuperCamp teaches learning-to-learn skills that can be applied to any subject and identify the learning style and strategies that work best for each student. Their courses give the confidence and tools for classroom success.

• The Leading Edge at the High Mountain Institute

  The Leading Edge at the High Mountain Institute is an introduction to leadership for extraordinary high school students.

• Trails Wilderness School

  The goal of Trails Wilderness School is to provide a safe and supportive education through fun in the outdoors. Fun and challenging activities encourage self-confidence, responsibility and leadership.

• Wildwood

  Wildwood is a multidimensional summer program where friendships are formed and respect for the environment is forged. Campers arrive curious about nature and leave committed to the preservation of our natural resources.

• Windsor Mountain Student Travel

  Windsor Mountain Student Travel seeks to provide travel and community-building experiences that can open minds, foster personal growth, and cultivate a spirit of proactive change, thus enabling students to respond to cultural and environmental challenges as responsible citizens of the world.

• Wolf Ridge

  Wolf Ridge offers a variety of programs for kids ages 9 to 18 including overnight camps, day camp, arts programs, leadership training, and wilderness trips.

• YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington

  YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington is renowned for providing high quality camping experiences for young people at its day and overnight camps. Generations of children have learned new skills, developed an appreciation of the outdoors, and had fun at YMCA camps.

• YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee

  All YMCA of Metropolitan Milwaukee camping programs strive to instill positive values such as caring, honesty, respect and responsibility -- values that help young people make positive choices for a healthy, contributing adulthood. Whether your child is ready for a two-week stay at one of our resident camps or is more interested in the variety of activities at our many day camps, YMCA camps create great memories that last a lifetime.

• YMCA of Metropolitan Washington

  The YMCA of Metropolitan Washington is a membership association of men, women. As part of the worldwide YMCA movement and as stated in our constitution, the mission of this association is to foster the spiritual, mental and physical development of individuals, families and communities according to the ideals of inclusiveness, equality and mutual respect for all. The YMCA of Metropolitan Washington is open to all people, regardless of race, creed, color, religion, national origin, gender, age or handicapping condition.

• YMCA of San Diego County

  The YMCA of San Diego County is dedicated to improving the quality of human life and to helping all people realize their fullest potential as children of God through development of the spirit, mind, and body.