Camp Summit

“Brittany has been enjoying Camp Summit for 21 years! Yes she plans to be going another 21. Camp Summit allows much needed respite for Parents. I never worry about her. Staff is trained and qualified for all needs. Thank You Camp Summit for being there for all children and adults with all disabilities”

“Camp summit is a fantastic experience for the handicaped! The staff is made of of volunteers and interns that love what they do. Our daughter has been attending Camp Summit for to he last 15 years. She hasn't missed a year yet.. beyond a doubt, camp summit has giving so much to our daughter and to thousands of children who otherwise may never get to have the summer camp experience or the wonderful memories that come with spending a week doing activity's and making friends. Thank you camp summit!”

“This was my son's first year at Camp Summit and he loved it!! I loved that there is a camp that he can go too. He's been wanting to be like his big sisters and go to camp and now he can. Thank you, Camp Summit!! Kai loved swimming and the friends he made. He'll for sure be there next summer!!!”

“If you care about the health of your children, do not send them to a camp that hires high school and college students with no experience to take care of children or adults with special needs, after training them for about 6 hours the day before the campers, that is the children, arrive. I am a premed student at a private liberal arts college in Sherman. I have volunteered and done service with many organizations locally and abroad. I have never had to deal with severe employee harassment like I had to at Camp Summit. if you are a college student I highly recommend you find somewhere else to volunteer. My Unit Leader verbally abused me for 30 minutes in front of all the kids I was taking care of, staff members, and the colleagues I was living with in the cabin, and had my colleagues who were actually younger than me and in high school, yell at me as well while he watched, and fostered an environment for my other cabin staff members to bully me, while all I was doing was my job and listening to his instructions. He yelled at me publicly to apologize to a colleague who had been bullying me ever since Day 1 of my 7 days there, and when I asked for what, he didn't answer and just decided to throw insults. Then, the Board encouraged a high school student to frame me for abuse of a person with special needs, when in reality I was being beaten by a girl with special needs and since I couldn’t push her away, u was backing up and covering myself while she even reached for a tank filled with hot water to throw at me. And even then I never pushed back or resisted, just covered myself with my arms. There were even 7-8 people in the room watching and they still decided to twist the situation against me. It was the most undignified experience I have ever had in the 7 years I have been volunteering to do service for various organizations. It was like going back to middle school from a pre-professional college program. Camp summit was the most unprofessional and “sketchy” place I have worked in after a vibrant career of volunteering locally and abroad. It wasn't just me, but several volunteers and camp counsellors who raised bullying as an issue. I would also not recommend any parent to have their kid go to Camp Summit. They do not train the volunteers and camp counsellors properly- inexperienced high school and college kids will be taking care of your child 24/7, with insufficient supervision. As a camp counsellor, I loved taking care of the kids, but the management at Camp Summit and the Unit Leaders (the supervisor of the camp counsellors and volunteers) are extremely backward in thinking and have almost no means of staff care, and back-up the Unit Leaders when employee harassment is brought up as an issue. There were also rumors that most of the staff were convicts and had run-ins with the law, and while I support the fact that organizations and firms should give people with a criminal background a chance to build their life back up, that still brings into question their training with adults and children with special needs. The upper management ruin the experience of getting to know the wonderful kids and people with special needs. Kids go missing a lot and since the camp is located in the middle of nowhere, it’s even more dangerous.”