Camp Amicus
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Camp Amicus is a unique summer camp program designed specifically for children and youth with Learning Disabilities and/or ADHD. Our goal is to create a rewarding and successful summer camp for each young person. We provide a structured and supportive environment for children to learn social skills, build relationships and have fun! Mature, caring counsellors plan activities to ensure that campers build confidence and self-esteem while enjoying a true camp experience. We offer both overnight (not in 2021) and day camp options as well as Teen Leadership and Counsellor-in-Training camps.
Why Send Your Child to Camp Amicus?
- A camp program for children with Learning Disabilities/ADHD operating since 1982
- A 3:1 camper to counsellor ratio with leadership staff and a Camp Manager to support campers and staff
- Camp Amicus offers a social skills program grounded in evidence-based, behavioural and social learning theories specifically for youth with LD/ADHD
- It offers fun, non-competitive camp activities
- Programming reinforces age-appropriate social skills in a safe and supportive environment
- Mature, caring counsellors plan activities to ensure that campers build confidence and self-esteem, while having a great time!
"Camp Amicus provides a rewarding and successful summer camp experience where adolescents with ADHD learn social skills, build relationships, confidence, and self-esteem. Overall, the present findings provide evidence that adolescents with ADHD enhanced their social competence. The camp structure, programming, and counsellor approaches provide practice and reinforcement of age-appropriate social skills in a fun and safe environment. These results support the premise that evidence-based social skills programs can be effectively implemented in community settings such as summer camp and can help adolescents develop social competence in a short amount of time." (Neprily, 2020, p.76). This is a quote from the 2020 study entitled "Summer Camp for Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Naturalistic Context for Enhancing Social Competence" that looked at the impact of Camp Amicus.
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Camp 2021 Registration Information
Returning Campers:
If your camper has been to Camp Amicus before, do not complete the Intake Form. You can register directly. Please check your email for a registration link.
New Campers:
Intake approval is needed prior to registration. Please complete the Intake Form to begin the process.
Camp Amicus is a member of 
Thank you also to all the generous donors who have contributed to the Camp Amicus Bursary Fund: The Prosser Family Foundation, B’Nai Brith and Children’s Hospital Aid Society and many individual donors. With their support, we try to keep Camp Amicus financially accessible to all eligible campers.