Social Skills Leadership Day Camp & Social Skills Leadership Summer Camp in Orlando
 

 


Read the Channel 13 News Article on How our Orlando camps & groups helped a student with Social Skills. 

 

15 Symptoms or Tips to Identify Social Delays

If you can answer yes to two or more of these items about your student they may need help to connect socially with their peers and to prepare for the real world. Here are a few symptoms to look for:

Doesn’t recognize non-verbal cues
Gets in peers personal space
Annoys to get attention because they do not know how to get it another way
Low self confidence
Poor eye contact
Only interested in themselves rather than taking an interest in their peers
Talks too much
Lacks assertion
Impulsive or blurts out responses
Tries too hard to make friends laugh - thinks humor will make them friends
Reacts to teasing and does not know how to roll with conflict
Has a need for justice & fairness and judges peers
Isolates or withdraws from peers
Always wants to be first or wants to play what they want
Kids do not call for play dates or to hang out!
Kids Leadership Camp - Fun Summer Camp Builds Kids & Teens Leadership, Learning & Life Skills
- This adventure camp for students in the Orlando area is for students that may have social skills issues with their peer group or lack assertion/confidence.  Camp takes place at the YMCA Camp Wewa ropes course.  Click on any of the above pictures to enlarge the picture.  

Summer Overnight Camp Information

2008 Dates: June 8th-June 13th, July 6th-11th, Aug 3rd-8th, Aug 10th-15th

Weekly Price: $845

 

  • Scholarships-Summer Camp Only

    • Additional Scholarships available at Carrie Brown Foundation
    • If you are eligible for a scholarship, you must attach it with your payment to James L West.  Do not give it to the YMCA or you may not receive your credit towards James L West's Leadership Camp

Key Benefits

  • For Students ages 6-9 & 10-16.  Students will be divided by age groups at the Day Camp.
  • Observe student’s interactions with peers and redirect them by providing tools for positive socialization.
  • Campers will build relationships as they work together to solve each challenge, learning to trust each other and become trustworthy.
  • Students will learn how to read the body language and non-verbals from a horse as well as empathy, trust, teamwork and respect.
  • Day Camp includes the incredible experiential learning of a challenge/ropes course, swimming and canoeing & recap Camp DVD will be included.  Students will receive coaching/mentoring in the following areas:

    • Character Building
    • Leadership/Communication Skills
    • Responding to Provoking/Bullying
    • Anger Management/Conflict Resolution Coping Skills
    • Support Learn to overcome fears by facing fears
    • Reduce Depressive symptoms by building self-confidence
    • Reduce Anxiety by building learning how to face fears

ROPES COURSES are "Challenge by Choice" which means we do not force kids to do something they do not want to do, but with encouragement and affirmation from their peers kids and adults push themselves to do more than they thought they would do. Ropes courses continue to gain recognition as the experiential learning accelerates insight into trust, healthy communication, friendships, and leadership.  The Ropes Program utilizes various initiatives to challenge participants physically, mentally, emotionally and socially. We include both Low Elements, which are close to the ground, and High Elements, which can be up to 40 feet high.

TESTIMONIALS:

“Camp was uber-awesomeness amazing fun times. Thanks for doing the camp – truly one of, if not, the greatest week of my life.”

“He had a really great week, thank you very much to Jim and Seth and all you very special caring people.  Jim, you are an angel here on Earth doing very important work.  We are lucky to have you in our lives!”

"Tommy (Thomas as he now prefers) is doing awesome!  You would be so amazed to see God's work in progress.  Thank you for steering us to Crossroads.  Crossroads and your leadership camp have changed Tommy's life

“He really enjoyed camp... I heard descriptions of all the different stations on the ropes course and which he did and didn't do, but in particular about the vertical wall.... and how it was the hardest and how you "really had to work as a team to get everyone up and over the top and how it was really hard but they did it!  The best story was about his distractible and kind of stubborn horse who would not follow directions at first... when I asked what he did, he explained that as they got to know each other better, he started to do what I wanted him to... but he still kept looking over there because he has a short attention span.... when I asked why over there? he said come here and i will show you.... well, over there is where the donkeys and a couple of other animals were housed and his horse was more interested in them than what he was supposed to be doing...what a lesson for him in the car, on the way home he also shared about some of the talks and activities they participated in, the other boys,   he considered basically all the boys in his dorm group as friends, vs. being the kid who only wants one or two good friends and insists on keeping a distance with all others....”

 

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Saturday Leadership Camp Information-Ropes Course, Climbing Wall & Zip Line


To Be Announced - Saturday Leadership Horse Camp Information


The Camp provides a safe and friendly atmosphere where children will develop physical, emotional, social skills and values that last a lifetime.


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