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  • All day
    02/24/2023-02/26/2023

     

    Winter Sibling Camp – February 24-26, 2023 – for siblings ONLY ages 7-18 and in Grades 1 – 12.

    February 12, 2023 application deadline

    The program is held at Camp Twin Lakes, Rutledge, Georgia

    New guidelines for in person overnight camper programs.  

    Changes are highlighted in yellow. All guidelines are subject to change.

    • All Campers need to be fully vaccinated AND boosted-Bivalent Booster required (if greater than 5 months after completed initial vaccine series)
    • All Campers attending a winter program (October 1- March 31 will be required to have a flu vaccination.
    • Campers who are not medically qualified to receive the COVID vaccination must obtain an official medical exemption form from Camp Sunshine to be completed by their oncologist or Peditrician and be approved for camp attendance
    • On-site antigen COVID-19 testing will be done for campers and volunteers at Camp Twin Lakes—staggered arrival times TBD
    • Reduced numbers of campers/cabin
    • Masks optional for all campers and staff
    • Sleep Head to Toe and spaced out in cabins
    • Camper Symptom Screening on arrival
    • Co-hort will be with 2nd cabin in the same unit-activities outside and distanced
    • Volunteers fully COVID-19 vaccinated and boosted (if greater than 5 months after completed initial vaccine series)

    *Camp Sunshine follows CDC recommendations for COVID-19

    CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccines for everyone 6 months and older and boosters for everyone 5 years and older, if eligible. Some people in your family may need to take more steps to be better protected from COVID-19, including:

    Anyone not up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines

    CDC recommends one updated (bivalent) booster dose:

    For everyone aged 5 years and older if it has been at least 2 months since your last dose.

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  • All day
    02/25/2023-02/26/2023

     

    Winter Sibling Camp – February 24-26, 2023 – for siblings ONLY ages 7-18 and in Grades 1 – 12.

    February 12, 2023 application deadline

    The program is held at Camp Twin Lakes, Rutledge, Georgia

    New guidelines for in person overnight camper programs.  

    Changes are highlighted in yellow. All guidelines are subject to change.

    • All Campers need to be fully vaccinated AND boosted-Bivalent Booster required (if greater than 5 months after completed initial vaccine series)
    • All Campers attending a winter program (October 1- March 31 will be required to have a flu vaccination.
    • Campers who are not medically qualified to receive the COVID vaccination must obtain an official medical exemption form from Camp Sunshine to be completed by their oncologist or Peditrician and be approved for camp attendance
    • On-site antigen COVID-19 testing will be done for campers and volunteers at Camp Twin Lakes—staggered arrival times TBD
    • Reduced numbers of campers/cabin
    • Masks optional for all campers and staff
    • Sleep Head to Toe and spaced out in cabins
    • Camper Symptom Screening on arrival
    • Co-hort will be with 2nd cabin in the same unit-activities outside and distanced
    • Volunteers fully COVID-19 vaccinated and boosted (if greater than 5 months after completed initial vaccine series)

    *Camp Sunshine follows CDC recommendations for COVID-19

    CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccines for everyone 6 months and older and boosters for everyone 5 years and older, if eligible. Some people in your family may need to take more steps to be better protected from COVID-19, including:

    Anyone not up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines

    CDC recommends one updated (bivalent) booster dose:

    For everyone aged 5 years and older if it has been at least 2 months since your last dose.

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  • All day
    02/26/2023-02/26/2023

     

    Winter Sibling Camp – February 24-26, 2023 – for siblings ONLY ages 7-18 and in Grades 1 – 12.

    February 12, 2023 application deadline

    The program is held at Camp Twin Lakes, Rutledge, Georgia

    New guidelines for in person overnight camper programs.  

    Changes are highlighted in yellow. All guidelines are subject to change.

    • All Campers need to be fully vaccinated AND boosted-Bivalent Booster required (if greater than 5 months after completed initial vaccine series)
    • All Campers attending a winter program (October 1- March 31 will be required to have a flu vaccination.
    • Campers who are not medically qualified to receive the COVID vaccination must obtain an official medical exemption form from Camp Sunshine to be completed by their oncologist or Peditrician and be approved for camp attendance
    • On-site antigen COVID-19 testing will be done for campers and volunteers at Camp Twin Lakes—staggered arrival times TBD
    • Reduced numbers of campers/cabin
    • Masks optional for all campers and staff
    • Sleep Head to Toe and spaced out in cabins
    • Camper Symptom Screening on arrival
    • Co-hort will be with 2nd cabin in the same unit-activities outside and distanced
    • Volunteers fully COVID-19 vaccinated and boosted (if greater than 5 months after completed initial vaccine series)

    *Camp Sunshine follows CDC recommendations for COVID-19

    CDC recommends COVID-19 vaccines for everyone 6 months and older and boosters for everyone 5 years and older, if eligible. Some people in your family may need to take more steps to be better protected from COVID-19, including:

    Anyone not up to date with their COVID-19 vaccines

    CDC recommends one updated (bivalent) booster dose:

    For everyone aged 5 years and older if it has been at least 2 months since your last dose.

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It’s Like Heaven: Stories from Camp Sunshine edited by Dorothy H. Jordan

Published by UGA Press:  In 1982 Dorothy H. Jordan founded Camp Sunshine to provide children with cancer a safe, normal childhood experience, to show them that others share their challenges, and to help them find community and support. In 1983 approximately forty campers between the ages of seven and eighteen attended the first summer camp, held in the north Georgia mountains. Thirty-five years later, more than four hundred campers attended the 2018 summer camp, and several hundred more children and family members participated in more than 150 additional recreational, educational, and supportive Camp Sunshine programs held throughout the year in metro Atlanta, Savannah, and other areas of Georgia.

Today Camp Sunshine, a nonprofit organization, has hundreds of dedicated volunteers who help the leadership staff of the camp with its multiple year-round programs, as well as pediatric oncology nurses and other medical professionals who take care of the campers’ medical needs while they attend those programs.

It’s Like Heaven documents the story of the first thirty-five years of Camp Sunshine through the voices of campers, their nurses, counselors, and other volunteers. Each chapter is a former camper’s first-person story about childhood cancer and the Camp Sunshine journey, followed by reflections on the camper’s experience by the camper’s nurse or another member of the camp community, creating a unique narrative of each camper’s struggle and path toward healing. Every story includes photos of both the camper and the camper’s mentor as well as several photos that illustrate the connections, bonds, and strength of community created through Camp Sunshine.

 

“These powerful stories show us the resilience of the human spirit. Cancer touches all of our lives and the message of this book is universal. Camp Sunshine has created a little piece of heaven in Georgia for children and their families impacted by cancer, and everyone will find inspiration in these moving accounts about the healing power of community.” – PRESIDENT JIMMY CARTER

All proceeds benefit Camp Sunshine.

Order your copy here:

UGAPress

Indiebound.org

Amazon.com

Barnes & Noble