Meet Our Newly Accredited Camps!
ACA, NY & NJ would like to give a huge congratulations to our newly accredited camps! Find out more about these camps below:
AF Camp , a member of the Change Summer family, provides an opportunity for Achievement First elementary and middle School aged campers to build tight-knit community in a safe setting, allowing for exploration, learning and fun. Their goal is to provide an enjoyable, exciting summer experience that motivates campers to approach their future with confidence, curiosity, independence, and responsibility.
At Camp Eastwoods , Children spend the summer making memories and building friendships that last a lifetime. The Counselors at Camp East Woods create a safe, nurturing environment that allows the campers to truly immerse themselves in exciting daily activities and programming which foster growth, build self-esteem, inspire core values, and promote social and life skills.
Camp Reece provides a fully immersive environment for individuals with disabilities from ages 8 to 17. Their staff members differentiate instruction and modify activities whenever needed to ensure campers of all levels, abilities, and ages can participate fully and successfully. Through practical and extracurricular programs, campers will not only have fun but learn new skills and build self-confidence and self-esteem which they will carry with them long beyond their time at Camp Reece.
Camp Seewackamano is located on 37 wooded acres with a lake, hiking trails, playing fields, and two high-low ropes courses in the Catskill Forest preserve. Their goals are to keep children and staff safe and provide positive learning experiences. Their staff are positive role models that teach core Y values: caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility.
The goal at Camp Starfish is to develop healthy campers through active play and nutritional education. They promote creativity through interactions with the community. At Camp Starfish campers enjoy art, bicycle education, cooking, engineering, working with the YMCA Kingston Farm Project, math, movement, reading, science, social emotional learning, swimming, writers’ workshops, and more.
Camp Wiltmeet provides children with the opportunities for new experiences, and strongly encourage creativity through interactions with the community. Each day is jam packed with activities like playing sports, enjoying arts and crafts and music, activities, playing small group games and large active games, and so much more!
Eagle Island Camp believes in inspiring and empowering girls and young women to be confident, collaborative, and courageous. Their programming is designed to make optimal use of the natural location, so water and wilderness activities form the foundation of their programming, and are supplemented by a variety of staff and camper led activities in arts and crafts, sports, music and drama, nature, creative pursuits, and team building.
Freehold Family Y Camp offers children 6-15 years old an enriching summer of recreational swim, sports, games, and much more, in a safe and nurturing environment. They incorporate their core values of caring, honesty, respect, responsibility, and inclusion into all they do. Children learn new skills and develop long lasting friendships.
Gloucester County YMCA is an 11-week program with campers ages 5 to 14. They have different themes each week from trading places, giving kids the opportunity to trade places with counselors for some activities, to Splash-Tacular, a week filled with fun water games to help beat the summer heat!
Northeast Bronx YMCA provides a program parents can trust to provide their child with a fun, enriching high quality experience, to get kids out of the house and off screens! The experienced staff have a passion for education and for nurturing, cultivating, and developing campers’ full potential.
Spark Day Camp collaborates with campers to create a camp community with a foundation built on Love, Compassion, Joy, and Acceptance. They strive to provide campers with a sense of belonging as well as encouragement to try new things while fueling their growing passions with their constantly expanding program areas. They partner with like-minded organizations to foster campers’ understanding and desire to give back.
Suffolk Y JCC Camps provides camp opportunities for kids of all ages, and all needs. SYJCC provides the opportunity to choose your own adventure. The sky is the limit, and SYJCC is dedicated to the enrichment of campers, and making summer an unforgettable experience.
World Explorers Group has the dedicated mission to offer expert family education services including preschool, camp, and after-school services to children across the world. They provide camp for kids from preschool (2-5 years old) through entering 6th grade. Weekly they have themed special guests, activities, and excursions (for school aged campers).