CAMP SUMMIT INFORMATION

Camp Summit Experience

YouthHope provides week-long, overnight summer camps at Camp Summit! Summer camp is full of fun and adventure for your child to build courage, confidence, and character! Campers have structured, supervised activities to learn skills, build their faith, and enjoy new experience. Your child will be cared for by our positive, encouraging, trained, and carefully selected summer camp staff.

Your child will be in a group of 8-10 campers with a counselor for the week. This group of campers will grow and bond together through team challenges, group activities, devotionals, and amazing camp experiences.

Campers eat three nutritious meals each day, participate in outdoor activities, and attend group message together to learn about God. Counselors provide daily devotionals from the Bible to guide students through scripture and how to apply it to everyday life.

Camp activities include hiking, fishing, boating, challenge course, team games, creative art stations, swimming lessons, zip-line, and more! Whether it's playing a game of Ga-Ga Ball or fishing on the lake, your child's safety is our top priority.

Summer Camp Leadership

All camp staff understand the meaningful role they play in each camper's life, and counselors approach their responsibilities with care, integrity, and genuine compassion. Our counselors bring skill and creativity to their activities, making them both challenging and fun, while building real connections with the campers.

Camp Summit staff are background checked, certified in First Aid and CPR, and equipped to make camp amazing! Our counselors have a passion to work with campers, bring energy, and joy to camp each day! Camp staff are trained extensively to lead activities safely, care intentionally for children and teens, and creat an encouraging place where every camper feels seen, known, and valued.

Medication

If your child takes medicine please include enough to last the week at camp. Medicine must be stored in the original prescription labeled container with dose amount and frequency. Medicine is collected at check-in, recorded, labeled, and properly stored. While at camp, all medicine is locked in the camp office, and distibuted only by designated camp personnel. We keep very careful records of when and what medicine campers take.

Lice

All campers will be screened for lice prior to going to Camp Summit. This is to prevent any spread to other campers. If lice or nits are found during the lice screening, your child will not be permitted to attend camp until approved tratment measures have been taken. You may contact YouthHope or Lice Clinics of America for more information on screening and/or treatment.

Severe Weather

Camp staff will be in continual surveillance of the weather via the internet and weather radio to keep campers safe. We have protected storm shelters in case of severe weather. We will provide text and social media updates in the event of major weather issues to keep you informed.

Behavior Policy

Campers may be removed from the camp environment if not willing or unable to abide within camp guidelines. Campers will be sent home for physical fights, refusal to comply resulting in disruption, behaviors compromising the safety of self or others, vaping, drugs, or alcohol. Parents/Guardians will be contacted for disciplinary issues.

Phone Calls 

For general camp-related questions, please call the YouthHope Office: 309-762-4577. The Camp Summit team will post regular updates on YouthHope's Facebook page of camp activities and text updates to parents/guardians throughout the week.

Please reserve use of the camp telephone for emergencies. While campers are at camp, it is important we avoid homesickness in your camper(s). In the evenet of an emergency, the Camp Summit phone number is 309-623-4371.

YouthHope Pick up time:

If YouthHope is picking up your camper on Monday, please have you camper up, ready, fully packed, and ready to hop on the bus/van! YouthHope picks up campers from home between 8:30am-10:30am on Mondays.

YouthHope Drop off time:

YouthHope brings campers to their homes on Friday between 11am -1pm. If you need to arrange for special delivery please call the YouthHope office: 309-762-4577.

We are looking forward to an amazing summer at Camp Summit!!