RAMAPO LEADERSHIP PROGRAM | RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN
This is an exciting and challenging program designed to build community and strengthen peer leadership skills in teens. Activities are crafted for success and achievement, require full participation and promote improved decision making, problem solving, and communication skills. The program's goal is to work with young people who are struggling to overcome difficult situations, and guide them toward higher education and purposeful employment. Participants attend one of the three, 3-week summer sessions and then attend weekend activities at camp during the school year. Teen's families also participate in the program, during weekends in the spring and fall. Activities include camping, canoeing, high ropes, peer group counseling, learning basic work skills, and local community service projects.
Physical Address
52 Salisbury Turnpike, Rhinebeck, NY 12572
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845-876-8414
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Eligibility
Age 14 and above, emotional, behavioral and learning problems
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RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN
Ramapo for Children is a nationally recognized residential program which serves children, ages 4-16, with a wide range of emotional, behavioral and learning problems. Camp encourages character values such as honesty, concern for others, responsibility and the courage to do one's best. Ramapo operates five distinct programs, several year-round, which provide a safe, predictable, and highly structured environment while fostering the development of positive social and learning skills. The programs are Camp Ramapo, Ramapo Training, Staff Assistant Experience and Retreats. Ramapo's 240 acres campus in Rhinebeck, New York includes more than fifty buildings, several miles of trails, a freshwater lake for swimming and boating, several outdoor challenge courses, a health center, an amphitheater and year-round residential lodge.