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.