Glick Family Camp

Countless families are grateful for Glick Family Camp, a program of the Glick Center for Early Childhood Services, which ensures that families with children and teens with disabilities have the opportunity to enjoy a fun, nature-filled camp experience. To ensure that everyone can relax, a respite worker is assigned to each family during their weekend filled with a variety of social, creative, recreational and supportive activities. Glick Family Camp is offered twice each year—once in the spring and once in the fall—at Jewish Community Youth Services Camp Henry Horner/Camp Red Leaf in Ingleside, IL. 

The next Glick Family Camp is September 24-26, 2010. Call now for a registration packet.

Children and adults can participate in nature hikes, canoeing, campfires, fishing, kickball and candlemaking. If families would like to add an educational element to their weekend, they can join educational parent and sibling groups and learn how to handle situations commonly experienced by parents and siblings of children with disabilities.

Previous participants concur that Glick Family Camp is about building community. One parent states, “This is the place where I can be with my family without having to explain my family.” Another parent relays with gratitude, “Thanks so much for all your work on last weekend’s family camp. As I sat at work on Monday, telling my boss the details of the weekend, I was overcome with gratitude. You cannot know how much it meant to me. My son cried during the car trip home because he missed his new friends. Thank you again for all of your dedication and determination.”