JTR HELPS TEENS SURVIVE THE SUMMER!
Summer in the NEK can be wild! It can be scary and without boundaries! Anyone and especially teens can feel lost. How do you survive in the wilderness of Northern Vermont!?!
How cool would it be if we could learn to survive so we can learn to thrive!?
This summer Journey to Recovery Community Center will be holding 7 one-week Wilderness Survival Camps for teens. Each camp will run Monday through Friday from 9am to 3pm with arrival starting at 8:30am and departures by 4pm. The camp is open and free (by donation) to all teens.
We will gather around a fire circle in the mornings to check-in and review the day’s activities.
The first four days will introduce and cover the basics of Shelter, Water, Fire, and Food and the
last day will pull it all together in a multi stage survival simulation, Survivors will be tasked with
building a shelter suitable to spend the night in on the coldest nights, purifying suitable water,
making a fire without matches or a lighter, as well as identifying edibles in the woods near the
JTR center.
In addition to learning about the basics of wilderness survival we will be spending the days
hiking, fishing, swimming, spending time with other teens, making connections, cooking, eating,
identifying animal tracks…
Teens are welcome to join us at any point during the summer and we will be taking applications
for each session until the camp is full. We still have spaces open and are filling up. To find out
more about the camp: Call (802) 624-4156, Email Lbennett@jtr-cc.org, or visit Journey to
Recovery Community Center’s webpage at www.jtr-cc.org