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2010 Summer Camp
If you are a parent or guardian of a child who went to summer camp through YES, please take a short survey and share your thoughts with us!
It is very important for us to know how your child's experience was at summer camp in order for us to improve our programs as well as report back to our funders in order to secure future funding.
The questions in the survey are for both you and your child. If you sent more than one child to camp, only one needs to submit a survey. Click here to get started now.
Thank you so much for your time, we look forward to hearing your feedback and sending your child to camp again next summer!
-YES staff
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To qualify for the YES summer camp program, campers must reside in West Contra Costa County, be 8 to 16 years of age and meet income eligibility guidelines.
When registering a camper, please bring:
* Income verification
* Up-to-date immunization record and
* Health insurance card
For more information about registering a child for 2011 summer camp;
call 510-232-3032,
email blanca@yesfamilies.org or
visit us at 2811 Macdonald Ave., Richmond CA 94804
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 Every summer YES brings as many 8-16 year-old youth from Richmond and West Contra Costa County as funding allows to a camp environment just hours away from the world they know. Since 1999, YES has been working with local schools, community agencies, and families to provide one to two-week long transformative camp experiences. In 2009 we sent 270 children to one of six different camps.
The barriers that prevent children from getting into nature and attending camp are not only financial: they include linguistic, cultural, and literacy barriers that YES overcomes by working closely with the community. YES recruits campers from schools, community agencies, shelters, and foster homes; we translate forms; help parents fill out paperwork; answer questions and calm worried parents; make phone calls to ensure that campers make it to the bus on time with packed bags; provide loaner sleeping bags; and pick up and drop off children whose parents are unable to do so.
YES staff is experienced working in diverse communities. A majority of staff are bilingual to ensure fluid communication with the English and Spanish-speaking families we serve. In addition to fundraising to pay all the costs of sending a child to camp, YES partners with the camps and scholarship organizations to obtain reduced rates so that we may send as many campers as possible each year.
The camps we partner with offer a wide assortment of traditional and contemporary outdoor activities, including swimming, hiking, archery, horseback riding, mountain biking, circus skills, and music lessons. Part of our mission is to expose our campers to people from a wide variety of backgrounds, and we select camps with an emphasis on diversity in mind. We also seek camps that focus on positive social experiences, respect, teamwork, cooperation, and the use of communication as a means of conflict resolution and violence prevention.
 "The families of our student body are economically and culturally disadvantaged, and our children have limited exposure to the world outside of their neighborhoods. Camp has opened them to the world and the world to them. Children tell their summer camp stories as the highlights of their lives.” -Linda Jackson, former Principal, Coronado Elementary School
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YES Events in 2010
Family Camps:
Sept. 24 - 26 Peres
Oct. 8 - 10 Verde
YES Day Outings:
Nov. 13, Point Pinole
Volunteers needed
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