Join us for a week long overnight camp experience at the luxurious JCC's Perlstein Resort & Conference Center at JCC's Camp Chi, just outside of Wisconsin Dells!
Camp Firefly offers a unique week long, overnight summer camp experience for boys and girls, ages 9-13, who have been diagnosed with social disorders, such as Social Anxiety, OCD, PDD, Asperger's Syndrome, Non-Verbal Learning Disorder, and High Functioning Autism.
Camp takes place August 1 - 8, 2010. Please see FAQ to see if your child is a good fit for Camp Firefly!
Camp Firefly Offers
- A fun and therapeutic environment focused on enhancing children's social, language, sensory, and adaptive development. Each camper’s individual needs are accommodated for and adapted into daily schedules.
Schedules that are specially designed to offer your child appropriate, interactive therapeutic group activities, and fun social camp activities that include swimming, arts and crafts, boating, lakefront activities, fishing, music, ropes courses, wall climbing, campfires, cookouts, and special outings.
- Small counselor to camper ratio to ensure the safety of each camper. All of the counselors are highly trained in the treatment of social communication disorders, have degrees in mental health, special education, or speech and occupational therapy, and are supervised by on-site psychologists.
- Small cabin groups (4 children in each cabin) that better promote friendships and positive social interactions among campers in a supportive and safe atmosphere.
One More Thing
Camp Firefly is a program of Jewish Child & Family Services (JCFS). JCFS offers a wide range of educational, preventative and therapeutic services for children, teens and adults throughout the Chicagoland area. JCFS also provides GROUP FIREFLY, weekly group therapy sessions for children who need to build social skills and friendships throughout the school year. Please visit www.Jcfs.org for more information about other JCFS services.
