SOCIAL GROWTH IN A TRADITIONAL CAMP COMMUNITY

Camp Akeela is a coed, overnight (sleepaway) camp in Vermont. Within a well-rounded, traditional camp program, Akeela is a small, supportive community that helps campers improve their social skills. Akeela campers are bright, creative boys and girls ages 9–16 who have difficulty connecting with their peers. Many, but not all, of our campers have been diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome or a nonverbal learning disability.

Akeela campers thrive in a world in which they are surrounded by peers with similar experiences and staff members who understand and embrace them. Not only do the campers have the time of their lives at camp, but they return home with skills and a newfound self-confidence that they carry with them throughout the year.

At Camp Akeela, our mission is simple: to provide our campers with the most incredible, life-changing summer experience on the planet. In particular, we believe in...

• FRIENDSHIP. Camp Akeela facilitates social growth and helps campers develop meaningful, life-long friendships.
• COMMUNITY. The Camp Akeela community accepts, values, and celebrates each camper and staff member.
• GROWTH. Camp Akeela fosters the personal growth of each camper by supplying safe and supported opportunities for choice and challenge.
• PRIDE. Akeela campers develop and experience competence and are encouraged to take pride in their accomplishments.
• FUN. Above all, Camp Akeela provides campers with lasting memories of summers filled with spirit and FUN! 
  

Final accreditation by the American Camp Association is pending a summer 2008 visit.