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Camp Joy FoundationP.O. Box 417, Clarksville, Ohio 45113
(937) 289-2031 (Local)www.camp-joy.org
• Helped more than 2,000 children through summer camp programs• Delivered over 30 different camp program sessions • Launched camp program for families serving in the military• Dedicated six new Yurt cabins• Nearing completion of Rachel A. Hutzel Observatory and Nature
Center• Collaborated with more than 20 partnering organizations• Expanded the Fostering Success Program for youth in foster care
C A M P J O Y – S U M M E R O F I N S P I R A T I O N
Thank you for a great 2014 Summer Camp Season!
Thank you for your wonderful generosity! Together we have grown to help more children in the community. We are excited to celebrate and build on this success through our year-round programming!
See what’s making news at Camp Joy...
Four young boys sit at a table
inside a cabin discussing the best
way to inject medication into their
arm. They talk about the process in a
matter-of-fact way as most of them
have been taking medicine this way
for years. The only difference is that
this week they are at camp, with
peers willing to offer suggestions and
words of support.
For most children, summer camp
is mainly a chance to get away and
share experiences with friends.
Camp Joy, a nonprofit located in
Clarksville, about 40 miles northeast
of downtown Cincinnati, is
celebrating the 15th anniversary of
its partnership with Cincinnati
Children’s Hospital Medical Center,
offering more than just a typical
weeklong retreat. Kids with medical
conditions are invited to a place
During the hemotology/ “Think of a happy place, Austin,”
oncology youth camp – Camp said Tyler, who had already gone
NjoyItAll – one first-time camper, through a vein in his arm and foot
Austin Carper, 7, of Anderson before trying successfully one last
Township, was struggling to time in his right arm. “Take your
overcome his fear of the needle. turn and then I’ll go again. You’ll see
Shutting his eyes as the other boys it’s not that bad.”where they can be monitored and at the table took their turns with the Tyler was right. A nurse helped receive their medications, but also infusions, Tyler Bertel, 10, of West feel normal and be around others Austin with his shot of medicine, and Chester Township, offered who are dealing with similar motivation.situations.
Camp Joy FoundationP.O. Box 417, Clarksville, Ohio 45113
(937) 289-2031 (Local)www.camp-joy.org
THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER
CAMP CREATES JOY THROUGH SUPPORTBy Amanda [email protected]
Published Saturday, July 26, 2014
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Zach Sence, 12, laughs during a playful shaving-cream fight during Joyful Hearts camp at Camp Joy. The camp is offered through Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center for kids and teens with heart disease. THE ENQUIRER/AMANDA ROSSMANN
Creating joy via support at Camp Joy
15 YEARS OF COLLABORATION1997: Camp Joy builds an accessible pool, paving the way for medical camps to expand.
1999: The first Cincinnati Children’s summer camp collaboration with Camp Joy is offered to 45 youth with arthritis, called Camp Wekandu.
2003: Children’s camps expand to serve patients with heart conditions, cancer and bleeding disorders.
2008: Accessibility improvements are made, including the construction of the Health Cottage with support from Children’s.
2013: Camp Joy and Children’s collaborated to impact 1,042 participants through 17 programs.
For more information on camp programs, call 937-289-2031 or visit www.camp-joy.org.
I am a photojournalist and multimedia producer visually documenting life and events in my hometown. Email me at [email protected].
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Helping people grow and succeed through
life-long, experience-based learning.
he was brave. His spirits lifted when
it was over and the room clapped.
Kameron and Kaleb Kinebrew,
17-year-old twins from Colerain
Township, are examples of the good
that has come from this partnership.
The twins, who have been diagnosed
with sickle cell disease, have been
coming to the camp for the past eight
years. Just recently, they also
returned for a week as junior
counselors, learning how to be
leaders and also role models for
younger children.
“It gives me a new perspective.
When I was a camper, I did
everything I wanted to do, but when
you are a junior counselor you have
to look out for what is good for
everyone,” said Kameron. “Here, I
can meet other kids with sickle cell,
who know how I feel and we can feed
off of each other, saying this helps camps, they are encouraged to set experience is ‘freedom,’ ” Madsen me, or this doesn’t work for me.”goals for themselves focused on their said. “There is a freedom for the It can be challenging for parents of diseases, but are also encouraged to campers to be themselves. They are children coping with illness to have fun. Medical staff from free to play and challenge commit to the camps, but organizers Children’s also oversees the camps, themselves. They are free to think say it proves to be worth it for the but this gives campers a chance to about their heart condition without children and parents alike.see these adults in a new light. feeling different, or free to forget “Sometimes it is really difficult for During the Joyful Hearts camp, a about their heart condition because, these parents to let go for a week,” week dedicated to children with heart for one week, it is not a unique says Gunner Blackmore, disease, one of the doctors, Nicholas experience. They are free to simply development director for Camp Joy. Madsen, M.D. of pediatric cardiology, enjoy themselves fully without a lot “They are used to making sure their could one minute find himself of outside expectations in a safe place kids take their medicines on a overseeing treatments in the medical surrounded by their friends.”routine basis and always checking to cabin and the next minute running see how they feel. Camp Joy is a after kids (who are often his patients) place that parents know other with a squirt gun during a shaving children will have similar conditions cream war.along with a structured environment
“It is such a magical week and for and they feel better about letting go.”me the word that best sums up the When campers come to the various
Kameron and Kaleb Kinebrew, 17-year-old twins from Colerain Township, at Camp Joy's hematology/oncology camp. The twins have sickle cell anemia. Camp NjoyItAll is a weeklong overnight summer camp experience for patients ages 7-18 with cancer, blood diseases and immune disorders. THE ENQUIRER/AMANDA ROSSMANN
WHO’S ELIGIBLE?A variety of family camps and day or weekend retreats are offered throughout the year. Personal donations, corporate sponsorships and grants cover the cost of most of the Cincinnati Children’s camps offered through Camp Joy. While most of the camps are free to patients, others do have a fee, but financial assistance and scholarships are available. Campers need to be patients of Children’s Hospital within the past 18 months and must register through Children’s Hospital.
Camp: Camp Joy’s Fostering Success program
Where: Clarksville, Ohio
Ages: 9 – 16
CLARKSVILLE, Ohio — Foster care youths recently
kicked off a new year of a program designed to help
them be successful in foster care and beyond. The
2014-2015 year of the Fostering Success program
began the week of July 7 at Camp Joy.
It's one of many ways Camp Joy’s staff members
strive to achieve their mission of “helping people grow
and succeed through lifelong, experience-based
learning.”
Founded in 1937 by St. Barnabus Episcopal
Church, Camp Joy is a nonprofit organization in
Clarksville, Ohio.
“Our goal is helping them (campers) to that
transformation and to go back to their communities
and make changes in their communities as well,” said
Sales and Marketing Director Kevin Hackman.
Designed for children ages 9 to 16 in foster care,
Fostering Success is one of several camp programs for through May of the following year, with youths
underserved youths and families. Others include visiting Camp Joy one weekend every month.
camps for low-income youths and families, those with Campers have “choice times” that allow them to
medical conditions and grieving children and families. participate in traditional camp activities such as
Fostering Success kicks off each summer with a archery, canoeing, fishing and creative arts.
weeklong, residential camp. The program continues
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Camp Joy FoundationP.O. Box 417, Clarksville, Ohio 45113
(937) 289-2031 (Local)www.camp-joy.org
Field trip: Camp Joy’s foster care campaims to teach youth life skillsRoxanna Swift, WCPO Contributor 4:52 PM, Jul 21, 2014
Published Monday, July 21, 2014
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Helping people grow and succeed through
life-long, experience-based learning.
“I like doing the ropes courses and lots of arts and The relationships she developed and the lessons she
crafts. We make lots of bracelets; our arms are covered learned played a big role in becoming comfortable in
in them,” said 14-year-old Kalynne Adams. foster care and building her character.
Makayla Smith, 12, said she mostly does arts and Smith, who has been in the program three years,
crafts and sports during choice times. “I really like to said her favorite thing about the camp is the
do drawings and make bracelets,” she said. opportunity to be a leader to youths who are there for
the first time.
Learning to cope in foster care
Youths who take part in Fostering Success gain A continually growing camp
more from the opportunity than a fun camp Camp Joy serves about 2,500 individuals every
experience. They also learn life skills, which help them summer. About 30 to 35 participate in the Fostering
deal with living in foster care. Success program. While enrollment changes from year
“From my perspective, it’s about teaching you to to year, the goal is to have no more than 55 youths in
deal with all the things going on around you. A lot of the program, said Resident Camp Manager Jermaine
times no one thinks about the fact that some of these Isaac.
kids are really young, and they're living in a stranger’s In recent years, Camp Joy has received recognition
house,” said camp counselor Nadia Goforth. and awards, including the 2012
She speaks from experience - before becoming a Community Service Organization of the
counselor, she was a camper in the Fostering Success Year, 2013
program. Excellence Award as Nonprofit of the Year and the
In addition to incorporating lessons in life skills, 2014 Community
counselors focus on specific topics during each Service Organization of the Year Award.
weekend session. Some of the subjects covered include There have also been challenges, though. Creating
coping skills and positive behaviors. innovative programs that are attractive to funders can
“It has helped me manage my emotions, and it’s be difficult, especially with the recent down trend in
taught me a lot of things,” Adams said. the economy, Hackman said. Paired with that is the
According to Smith, the camp has helped her struggle to maintain growth.
improve her attitude and taught her how to control “Our biggest challenge is that we continue to have
her anger. growth, to be able to have our facility grow with
demands,” Isaac said.
Building relationships
One of the most important life skills campers learn Got a tip for us about an awesome K-12 school,
is how to build relationships. summer program or summer camp? Email Community
Editor Holly Edgell: [email protected].“Camp was the only thing that was consistent for
me in the four years I was a camper there,” Goforth Copyright 2013 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This said. Through the experience, she made lasting material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or
friendships. “I'm still friends with some people I met redistributed.
my first summer (at Camp Joy),” she said.
She also kept in touch with her camp counselor, who
is now her boss.
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