Summer Camp

We are a community dedicated to the learning and growth of our campers living with type 1 diabetes.  The encouragement campers get from their peers and staff members do more for their independence than any formal attempts do.

Campers will tell you it’s their favorite week of the year.

After a week at summer camp, participants:

• Can establish positive patterns for living with diabetes
• Know how to build friendships and a social support network
• Have conversations or take part in activities with role models living with type 1 diabetes.
• Learn skills to better self-manage their diabetes

We offer three week-long overnight sessions at our partner camp locations throughout Georgia. Campers are housed in cabins by age and gender, supervised by three counselors (one of which living with type 1). The cabin counselors are role models who lead the way for a week filled with fun and traditional camp activities each day. Each cabin is also assigned a clinician who will personally oversee each camper’s medical needs for the week.

Although the overall experience of Summer Camp is “priceless”  we can thank our generous donors and corporate partners  — as they in a typical year subsidize 75% of the overall direct and indirect expenses.