SUMMER CAMP
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SEED provides this information to help families find supportive camps. Please check with the camp directly regarding the appropriateness of the camp for your camper.
Camp We-Go
Offered by WellSpring Educational Services and located at a private home in Lafayette, Camp We-Go includes engaging and enriching activities, including music, swimming, dancing, art, games, crafts and sensory play, as well as developmentally appropriate, small group outdoor stations.
Learn more here: https://www.wellspringeducation.org/camp-we-go
Quest Therapeutic Camps
Quest provides a 7-week summer therapeutic program for children with mild to moderate emotional/social problems. Individualized treatment plans are utilized to facilitate change with all of the fun camp activities. Go to www.questcamps.com for more information.
UC Berkeley's Blue Camp
UC Berkeley's Blue Camp, located on the UC Berkeley Campus, runs a one-of-a-kind social skills camp and leadership/work-skills program for youth entering 4th - 13th grade with Nonverbal Learning Disabilities, High Functioning Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, and similar social skill deficits.
There is a teen leadership camp and an elementary age summer day camp; both programs are about 10% of our summer camp population, so the majority of the campers' time is with neurotypically developing youth. For more information, go to: https://recsports.berkeley.edu/social-skills-camps
Camp Krem
Located in Boulder Creek, CA, Camp Krem provides respite services in the form of summer camp (12, 10 or 5 days) and weekend day trips and overnights.
For more information, go to: www.campingunlimited.org
Tikvah
Tikvah is a Jewish residential summer camp and offers a two-week program for campers with special needs. Amitzim program primarily serves campers with mild to moderate intellectual and developmental disabilities.
Most campers in the summer camp program are roughly in grades 4-12, but the most important factor is fit not grade level. Go to www.ramahnorcal.org for more information.
Walnut Creek Spec Rec
In partnership with Regional Center East Bay (RCEB), Walnut Creek Recreation offers Specialized Recreation Summer Camp, or Spec Rec.
Spec Rec summer camps are carefully designed for children, teens, and young adults who have special needs. RCEB clients can register online with a $20 fee for each week of camp.
For more information about how to register, visit www.walnut-creek.org/departments/arts-and-recreation/recreation-parks/specialized-recreation, and look for "Regional Center of the East Bay"
If you have any questions about this camp, please call Walnut Creek Recreation at (925) 943-5852.
