Summer Matters - Valley Forge Educational Services
Overnight Respite Camp Experiences
Overnight weekend retreats are specially designed for campers who have difficulty connecting with their peers. These campers deeply desire friendships, but due to difficulties with social skills, spend much of their time feeling socially isolated and lonely.
Our goals for these retreats are:
- To help each camper recognize and practice the social skills necessary to understand, interpret, and effectively manage his/her relationship to others.
- To foster the personal growth of each camper by supplying safe and supported opportunities for meaningful social relationships between similar peers.
- To increase camper’s ability to challenge his/her perceptions and feelings about peer interactions and learn to identify those of others; the development of empathy.
- To increase self-esteem through experiential education programming designed to help the camper feel challenged and successful.
Above all, these retreats provide campers with lasting memories of fun, social connection and success. These are truly the building blocks of self-esteem and motivation to succeed!
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Upcoming Retreats
Weekend Retreat at Mt. Gilead - April 12-14, 2013
Mother’s Day Weekend Retreat at Camp HOPE – May 10-12, 2013
