Can You Recommend A Camp

[Saintly15]

Hey, does any one have any Canadian camps to recommend (preferably in ontario..) that would be willing/able to hire a staff in a wheelchair? I have 4 years experience at a special needs camp, both as a cabin counsellor and as an assistant in the office...

Any suggestions are welcome..


L.C

[Sparkes]

Did you check with the Ontario camping association job board? http://www.ontariocamps.ca/ocajobs.html. Also, though I work in the States, I've had friends who have said Camp Wahanowin (90 minutes north of TO) is an awesome place to work at - http://www.wahanowin.com/

[prettysocks]

:speechles :speechles :speechles

EXCUSE ME????? AHHHH

[who_stole_my_loofa]

I'm sorry I don't think I quite understand your response prettysocks...

[prettysocks]

the fact that she's looking for a camp, means that she's not working at the camp we worked at together last year.

i've since talked to her about this.

sorry for the connnnfusion!

[Saintly15]

Sparkes: Yep, I follow the job board faithfully, just checking to see if anyone has worked at a camp in ontario that they would recommend to me, as last year I was frequently told that the camps I looked at were not accessible/could not handle a staff in a wheelchair.
Thank you for the suggestion of Wahanowin!
hehe and yes, Loofa, prettysock was reacting to me, lol sorry about that.

L.C

[runrachrunn]

Saintly, good question. I was also going to recommend the OCA boards - they are generally up to date.

Off the top of my head, I can't think of anything... Actually, come to think of it, the day camp I worked at probably would hire you, since it's in a totally (well, 90+%) wheelchair friendly location.

PM me... And I'll give you details... BTW, where are you located (roughly)?

[who_stole_my_loofa]

oh ok thanks for letting me know ;-)

[Saintly15]

Oh, I guess I forgot to mention, it's going to have to be a resident camp, or at least a day camp that provides housing, I'm from a small town and have no transportation on a daily basis...but thanks runrachrunn

L.C

[collissimon]

My friend worked at a Tim Horton's camp last summer and had a great time. I don't know if they're wheelchair accessible, but it might be food (or coffee... sorry couldn't resist!) for thought.

http://timhortons.com/en/childrens/stgeorge.html

[shermanator]

there is another website that you can check out that has a whole bunch of camps calle camp channel. www.campchannel.com some have websites to them and you can ask them if they are wheelchair accesable by email or phone