Every year our organization constructs a list of summer camps/programs that specifically offer healing and peer-to-peer support to children/teens living in homes dealing with parental addiction. I just occured to me that some of you here may know of some great opportunities for us to include in our list. Please share here or email me directly: mbcollins@nacoa.org
Thanks so much for any assistance you can provide!
How can mindfulness + social engagement reduce stress and increase joy?
MBSR-T is an evidence-based program designed to give teens real-life tools for managing stress and living life more fully.
Is our current political climate stressing you â or your teen â out? Are other challenges making it difficult for you to concentrate, sleep, or connect with others in meaningful ways? Do you ever feel overwhelmed, apathetic, anxious, or like you may be burning out?
This 6-week summer program for teens brings together Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens (MBSR-T) with social engagement.
Program Content Includes:
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Teens
Community Engagement
Social Justice
Projects that Inspire
Skills that Sustain & Nourish
Priority enrollment is given to at-risk youth and families with currently experiencing personal or financial difficulties. Scholarships and work-trade are often available and no one is ever turned away for lack of funds.
Each class will include mindfulness and meditation plus projects and activities that bring mindfulness into activity. This program also aims to foster academic success and career readiness through strengthening attentional skills and executive function, affecting the development of brain architecture, and providing the foundation for learning, pro-social behavior, and health.
Weâll explore how mindfulness is helping diverse populations including professional athletes, performing artists, and technology innovators to find their optimal performance zone, excel in their fields of interest, and cultivate a stability of mind that is easily accessed during difficult times.
In a nourishing environment, the young people in this program learn mindfulness with developmentally appropriate methods including research-based curriculum from Mindful Schools, a leader in mindfulness education, and MBSR-T, a stress-reduction program modeled after University of Massachusetts Medical Centerâs Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for adults, and adapted for teens by Gina M. Biegel, MA, LMFT.
When: Thursdays, July 6 â August 10, 2017 (6-weeks), 10:00 am â 12:00 pm Where:Open Sky Retreat Space in Sebastopol, CA. Ages: 13-19 (if needed, we will split into age groups)
Cost: $250-385, sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds. By paying at the high end of this sliding scale, you allow youth who may not otherwise be able to participate to join this program and help ensure that mindfulness education continues to grow in Sonoma County.
To register or for more information, contact Chelsea.
Joyful Mind Project is an approved Pathways Charter School vendor. Pathways students may be able to enroll using funds from their annual school budget.
You can download the flier to share in your circles here.
Camp Mariposa is a national addiction prevention and mentoring program for youth who have been impacted by substance abuse in their families. Camp Mariposa is offered free of charge to all families.
Thank you and yes, Camp Mariposa is an awesome program. It is rooted in the Children's Program Kit ( The Children's Program Kit was developed by SAMHSA childhood mental health professionals and covers a wide variety of topics and practical teaching strategies for elementary, middle, and high school children. The kit also contains information for therapists to distribute to their clients to help parents understand the needs of their children, as well as training materials for substance abuse treatment staff who plan to offer support groups for children. The toolkit is designed to provide materials for substance abuse programs so that they can initiate educational support programs for the children of their clients in substance abuse treatment. The curricula will teach children skills such as solving problems, coping, social competence, autonomy, and a sense of purpose and future. The toolkit includes stories and videos.)
Camp Mariposa is affiliate of our organization and we are working with them on some great additional materials I'm hoping to share here later this year!
If you are not aware, the Moyer Foundation also offers Camp Erin, an equally excellent program for children processing grief.
How can mindfulness + social engagement reduce stress and increase joy?
MBSR-T is an evidence-based program designed to give teens real-life tools for managing stress and living life more fully.
Is our current political climate stressing you â or your teen â out? Are other challenges making it difficult for you to concentrate, sleep, or connect with others in meaningful ways? Do you ever feel overwhelmed, apathetic, anxious, or like you may be burning out?
This 6-week summer program for teens brings together Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction for Teens (MBSR-T) with social engagement.
Program Content Includes:
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction for Teens
Community Engagement
Social Justice
Projects that Inspire
Skills that Sustain & Nourish
Priority enrollment is given to at-risk youth and families with currently experiencing personal or financial difficulties. Scholarships and work-trade are often available and no one is ever turned away for lack of funds.
Each class will include mindfulness and meditation plus projects and activities that bring mindfulness into activity. This program also aims to foster academic success and career readiness through strengthening attentional skills and executive function, affecting the development of brain architecture, and providing the foundation for learning, pro-social behavior, and health.
Weâll explore how mindfulness is helping diverse populations including professional athletes, performing artists, and technology innovators to find their optimal performance zone, excel in their fields of interest, and cultivate a stability of mind that is easily accessed during difficult times.
In a nourishing environment, the young people in this program learn mindfulness with developmentally appropriate methods including research-based curriculum from Mindful Schools, a leader in mindfulness education, and MBSR-T, a stress-reduction program modeled after University of Massachusetts Medical Centerâs Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) for adults, and adapted for teens by Gina M. Biegel, MA, LMFT.
When: Thursdays, July 6 â August 10, 2017 (6-weeks), 10:00 am â 12:00 pm Where:Open Sky Retreat Space in Sebastopol, CA. Ages: 13-19 (if needed, we will split into age groups)
Cost: $250-385, sliding scale. No one turned away for lack of funds. By paying at the high end of this sliding scale, you allow youth who may not otherwise be able to participate to join this program and help ensure that mindfulness education continues to grow in Sonoma County.
To register or for more information, contact Chelsea.
Joyful Mind Project is an approved Pathways Charter School vendor. Pathways students may be able to enroll using funds from their annual school budget.
You can download the flier to share in your circles here.
This is great! Wish these were available all over. Its harder to find something for this age group.
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Is our current political climate stressing you â or your teen â out? Are other challenges making it difficult for you to concentrate, sleep, or connect with others in meaningful ways? Do you ever feel overwhelmed, apathetic, anxious, or like you may be burning out?
