Youth Summer Camp

The SOS Center is busy during the summer months. Our Center tries hard to make our Youth Summer Camp program a healthy and productive experience for the kids. We continue to teach needed skills but are equally concerned with a child’s growth and maturity using learning skills in a fun and relaxing environment. Our camp has helped families by developing a child’s capacities, self-confidence, self-esteem, independence, leadership, all while making friends at the SOS Center.

“I am overwhelmed about what they did at the camp, but most of all they teach the children about the Lord which is so wonderful because some children never heard about the Lord, so I think this is a safe place for the kids.”  Uda Gayle, Grandmother of two SOS Center Youth Summer Campers, 2010

“ I like it when we draw art pictures. I like it when I make new friends. I know everybody’s name here. It is just fun coming to camp every morning. I meet new people like Jamaria. I really like it here – it is just really nice to be at a summer camp that feels like home.”  Joi (age 10), 2011

 

The SOS Center’s Youth Summer Camp and After School Homework Program are run by Director Tiffany Phillips.  Ms. Tiffany has been with the SOS Center since the summer of 2007 and has over 13 years experience working with youth in Milwaukee.  The SOS Center’s 2011Youth Summer Camp was filled to capacity with a waiting list.  It ran for seven weeks, Monday through Friday from 8:00 am to 3:00 pm for students aged 7-13 years.  The SOS Center served breakfast, lunch and snack every day thanks to Milwaukee Center for Independence (MCFI).

Days were spent with devotion, journal writing, arts & crafts, games, puzzles and outdoor activities.   Field trips have included roller skating, Cool Waters Park, Milwaukee Public Museum, Trinity-Freistadt Lutheran Church Nature Trail (Mequon), Wilson Elementary School (Mequon) Nature Trail, Vacation Bible School at Our Redeemer Lutheran Church in Wauwatosa, Milwaukee Third District Police Station, Northpoint Lighthouse, Brookfield Lutheran Church and Faith Lutheran Church in Germantown.

“SOS is never boring because there is lots of stuff to do, like make puzzles, journal, and read books. The best part was the field trips and I like when we went skating. It was so fun! We played mini-games and pin ball and we went to Cool Waters. I had fun.  I got on the body slide and I passed the swim test. I hope to come to SOS next year, and I hope to be a volunteer when I turn fourteen, and give donations to the SOS to help the kids like the staff do. I have really good fun at the SOS Center and I hope I have more fun next year on the same field trips”.  Brandon (age 11)

SOS Center’s Youth Summer Camp is scheduled for June 18, 2012 through August 3, 2012.

Campers will give an End of Summer Camp Presentation for family, friends and SOS Center supporters on Saturday August 4, 2012.