Camper Care
Jewish summer camp is a special place where children and young adults can be their freest to experiment, explore, succeed, and fail. FJC provides grants, incentives, and training programs to ensure Jewish camps have everything they need to welcome and care for everyone who enters their gates.
Upcoming Camper Care Events
Accessibility & Inclusion
Foundation for Jewish Camp is committed to ensuring that every Jewish child—regardless of ability—is able to experience joyous Jewish summers.
FJC’s current accessibility and inclusion initiatives and offerings can be found below. For more information, email yashar@jewishcamp.org.
The Yashar Initiative
The $12 million accessibility grant initiative generously funded by The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation aims to increase accessibility for campers and staff with disabilities at Jewish summer day and overnight camps.
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Mental Health
As an immersive, social environment centered around growth and belonging, camps are uniquely positioned for self-discovery and strengthening confidence, interpersonal skills, and resiliency. Foundation for Jewish Camp is committed to continuing to provide quality mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health (MESSH) support to the everchanging challenges campers and staff are bringing to camps.
FJC’s current mental health initiatives and offerings can be found below. For more information, email jill@jewishcamp.org.
Yedid Nefesh Initiative
Thanks to a visionary gift from The Marcus Foundation, Foundation for Jewish Camp provides more than 100 day and overnight camps with financial and programmatic support to address mental, emotional, social, and spiritual health (MESSH) in holistic ways – supporting camps’ hiring qualified mental health professionals on their staff, enhancing counselor training, integrating wellness programming into activity areas, and developing other ways to create cultural change within their camp communities year-round.
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MESSH Open Positions
Take a look at these open positions for Mental Health professionals in our network.
Open Positions
Mental Health Graduate Student Fellowship
As part of Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Yedid Nefesh mental health initiative, the Mental Health Graduate Student Fellowship supports building a pipeline of mental health professionals working at Jewish camp to expand qualified mental health support by embedding it into camp teams.
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