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Activities Offered
  • Archery
  • Camp
  • Hiking
  • Horseback Riding
  • Various Recreational Activities
Participants Served
  • Age range of participants: 6 to 15

Transportation
  • Accessible by Public Transportation: No

  • Transportation Provided by the Program: No

Notes

DYS Resident Camp is the only camp of its kind in Northwest Ohio to offer a week-long outdoor adventure for pre-teen and teenage youth with diabetes.

Parents site a dramatic improvement in attitude, carb counting and appropriate insulin coverage. Kids also show an increase in willingness to try new technologies and treatments like the insulin pump.

Camp helps kids learn to manage their diabetes independently while being supervised by Certified Diabetes Educators. They also spend all week with counselors and other kids who have experienced life with diabetes.

RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • Swimming
  • Games
  • Hiking
  • Arts and crafts
  • Outdoor/nature adventures
  • Horseback riding
  • Archery
  • Astronomy
SPECIAL LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
  • General diabetes management
  • Nutrition guidelines for life
  • Exercise for health
  • Handling the highs and lows
  • Campfire dialogues: coping strategies for today's teens
  • Diabetes and the future