Maine Summer Camps

New camps, new community partners and the same energy and enthusiasm on the part of both mark preparations for the Level Ground Initiative’s summer season. Registrations are underway and, thank...

https://mainecamps.org/level-ground-initiative-gearing-up-for-summer-2024-with-additional-collaborators/

“The summer overall was great.” Junior Maine Guide (JMG) program director Ron Fournier reports that “excellent staff,” supported by the longtime team of JMG testers, engaged candidates, a...

https://mainecamps.org/junior-maine-guide-program-has-successful-testing-camp-strives-to-include-additional-camps/

We are grateful to L.L. Bean for its second summer of playing a pivotal role in making summer camp experiences possible for more than 160 of Maine’s most underserved children. This gift leverag...

https://mainecamps.org/l-l-bean-funds-second-summer-of-camp-experiences/

  Dozens of children from Maine’s immigrant and refugee communities once again enjoyed a summer at camp as part of MSC’s 2023 Level Ground Initiative, a program founded in 2018 to make tuiti...

https://mainecamps.org/level-ground-initiative-continues-to-provide-camp-experiences-to-youngsters-from-maines-immigrant-and-refugee-communities/

The American Camp Association, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the Alliance for Camp Health welcome camp directors and out-of-school time professionals to attend a free ...

https://mainecamps.org/aca-cdc-and-ach-town-hall-meeting-may-11-at-200-pm/

Kids plunging into lakes, hiking Maine’s mountains, playing sports and making art. And, foremost, connecting with beloved camp peers and role models. It’s all back. In the coming days, thousa...

https://mainecamps.org/camps-are-opening-thanks-to-collaboration-and-commitment/

More than 60,000 youngsters attend camp in Maine each summer. Each one of those kids needs a sense of belonging, camp directors say, and going to camp provides it. For many of those campers, that...

https://mainecamps.org/making-camp-accessible-how-maine-camps-strive-to-serve-disadvantaged-youth/

It’s been a hard year for teenagers. Between remote learning, curtailment of extracurricular activities, and socializing primarily via screens, adolescents’ lives have been upended for more t...

https://mainecamps.org/summer-2021-teenagers-need-camp-more-than-ever/

With screens now a norm, and the sprint to summer underway, Maine camps haven’t skipped a beat. Maine Summer Camps (MSC), a nonprofit with more than 150 member camps, recently joined efforts wi...

https://mainecamps.org/a-virtual-pivot-maine-camps-go-online-prepping-for-summer-2021/

“I like to think of camps as so much more than childcare.” Helen L. Bren᷉a, president and CEO of the YMCA of Southern Maine, affirms the critical importance of day camp for working families...

https://mainecamps.org/day-camp-serving-a-vital-role-for-kids-and-families/