CampingMajor Program

25439

Total Hours

Contributed.

212800

Contacts

with Local Stakeholders.

85

Hours

of Multistate Efforts.

17656

Total Number

of Volunteers Engaged.

Program Indicators

Number of Youth (5-18) engaged in 4-H Summer Camping

14940

Number of Volunteers (19+) engaged in 4-H Summer Camping

2091

Number of Youth (5-18) engaged in 4-H Specialty Camping (Environmental, etc.) Programming

9521

Number of Adults (19+) engaged in 4-H Specialty Camping (Environmental, etc.) Programming

1741

Stories

4-H Summer Camp is More Than Fun and Games

4-HSummer Camp is More Than Fun and GamesA typical 5-day 4-H Camp session offers upwards of96 hoursof direct, uninterrupted contact between youth and their cabin leaders/counselors. Thats the equivalent of a family sitting down at the dinner table for 30-minutes,192daysof the year. The interactions offered in a residential camp/group living settingisso important to youth.The time we spend with youth in the camp setting offers opportunities for those youth to feel a sense of belonging, to have me...

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4-H Summer Camp is More Than Fun and Games

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