Summer Camp 2024 Personal Attendant

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Association of Horizon is a non-profit that provides a summer camp for adults with physical disabilities. Under the supervision of experienced camp leadership, volunteers are paired with an adult with a physical disability to spend the week together partaking in activities such as swimming, hiking, and canoeing, among others. The camp is 7 days and 6 nights at a beautiful and wheelchair accessible campground outside of Bloomington, IL and is provided free-of-cost to all our campers and volunteers.

Volunteer Benefits:

In addition to earning over 140 service learning hours, volunteers will:

1. Gain skills assisting a person with a physical disability. Past volunteers who have gone on to the workforce or college, especially nursing and pre-medicine programs, have used their time with Horizon as experience on their resumes and as topics for personal essays.
2. Increase communication skills and ability to work on a team. Our team leaders and camp staff promote an atmosphere of open dialogue, respect, and cooperation. Volunteers will utilize teamwork and open-mindedness in their individual pairings and as part of a larger cabin unit.
3. Expand their worldview to one with increased diversity and inclusion. A large majority of our first-time volunteers had never met a person who uses a wheelchair until they came to Horizon. The vision of our organization is to create a more socially conscious community, where barriers between people with and without disabilities are transcended.
4. Most importantly, have fun! Our volunteers get to participate in all the activities that are available to the campers for no cost. Many of our campers and volunteers ride horses, canoe, fish, and spend a week away from urban life for the first time in their lives!

If this sounds like an opportunity that you might be interested in, applications are available online at: https://associationofhorizon.org/camp-application/