Background
- The Majority of our participants have life threatening and often life shortening illnesses.
- All camper:counselor staffing is 1:1 or 1:2 depending on complexity of need.
- Kids of Courage currently serves over 500 families and their children.
- Medical supervision by physician, paramedics, and nurses on all programs.
Camper Diagnosis List
- Familial Dysautonomia
- Muscular Dystrophy
- Nemaline Myopathy
- Seizure Disorder
- Neurofibromatosis
- Cerebral Palsy without mental retardation
- Quadriplegia with complete paralysis and ventilator support
- Paraplegia
- Spina Bifida
- Liver Transplant (post)
- Fanconi’s Anemia
- Total Brain Injury/Head Trauma
- Stroke
- Glycogen Storage Disease
- Gaucher Disease
- Kidney Transplant (pre and post)
- Multiple Genetic Disorders
- Heart Transplant(pre and post)
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Childhood Cancer (during active treatment)
