Camp For Mentally Challenged Individuals Ages 7-16

[Guest guest]

To Whom It May Concern:

Camp PARC, a camp for mentally challenged which is celebrating its 51st season

is in its second year of a new resident camping program for campers ages 7-16.

Our enrollment this year has doubled from last year, yet we still have openings

for campers in this new program. The camp begins on July 18 and concludes on

July 21. The camp is held at Laurel Hill State Park in Somerset, PA. The cost is

$100. Each camper will be placed with a counselor and

a peer buddy (a normally developing individual similar in age which will be a

camper friend). All campers must be ambulatory because the camp has no

wheelchair paths. For more information call 814-479-4739 or email campdirector@

campparc.org Feel free to share this information with any parent or guardian of

a mentally challenged individual who would like to experience this first time

camping experience.

Theodore Risch

Visit our website:

www.campparc.org

Parent Endorsement:

My son, Sereck, attended this camp last year and will be going again this year.

He is nine with Down Syndrome. I can not recommend this enough. The staff is

great, the counselors are devoted to the kids. Cost is very reasonable. It is

easy to find off the PA turnpike, Somerset exit follow signs for Seven Springs

resort. It is just a few miles before the resort and well marked. Great respite

for the parents. They have very good application and ask questions when you

arrive. I drive three hours to take my son to this camp and plan to do so for a

very long time.

Sandoe