My Place Summer Camp

This summer, the end of the school year won't mean the end of stable learning environment for 50 ACP client students.  That's because there's My Place, an 8 week summer day camp for rising 1st to 6th graders.

 

This is the fourth year that A Child’s Place has offered this important program, which runs five days a week, from June 15 to August 7. For kids who don’t have a real place to call home, there’s simply no better place than My Place.  Each 11-hour day is packed with instruction, interaction and lively summer fun.

 

My Place summer camp will become a Freedom School in the summer of 2009.  Freedom Schools are based on five key components including: academic enrichment, parent and family involvement, social action and civic engagement, intergenerational servant leadership development, and nutrition, health and mental health.  It is an educational program that focuses on reading, creates better attitudes toward learning, and connects the needs of the children to the resources in the community. 
 

Three hours of daily academics help students retain and improve their skills as they explore a variety of themes such as animals, the arts, science, sports, community, literature and nutrition.  ACP kids also benefit from weekly field trips to Reed Gold Mine, Reedy Creek, Ray’s Splash Planet, ImaginOn and Cane Creek.  

 
Speedway Children's Charities Executive Director Maj. General Tom Sadler (r) and SCC's Amanda Hollingsworth (l) look on as rookie NASCAR driver Caitlin Shaw reads to camp kids.
Speedway Children's Charities Executive Director Maj. General Tom Sadler (r) and SCC's Amanda Hollingsworth (l) look on as rookie NASCAR driver Caitlin Shaw reads to camp kids.

 
How you can help!

For this program to succeed, we need your help! We're looking for volunteers to donate needed supplies, accompany kids on field trips and provide various kinds of program and staff support. 

If My Place sounds like your kind of place, please contact ACP Volunteer and Community Resource Coordinator, Aimee Brunton at 704.343.3790 x9551 or abrunton@achildsplace.org

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PO Box 33302 Charlotte, NC 28233    Phone: 704-343-3790    Fax: 704-343-3791  info@achildsplace.org

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