| THE POINT’s
Summer Youth Programs consist of the Summer
Adventure Program, the Summer Youth Leadership Training Program,
and Camp Quinnahung, an intensive
overnight camping experience for 9- to 13-year-olds in Beacon, New York. Each
year nearly 90 percent of participants in the Summer Adventure Program enroll
in Camp Quinnahung. Summer Adventure Program participants take part in THE POINT’s arts and educational programming during day camp hours, 8:30 a.m.–6:30 p.m. The program’s 70 participants also attend weekly trips and participate in the agency’s Environmental Stewardship Program, which includes training in community gardening and nurturing aquarium fish and small wildlife from the Bronx River. Every summer THE POINT also engages older teens in a Summer Youth Leadership Training Program. These teen participants learn leadership, teamwork, mentoring, and first aid skills and help staff Camp Quinnahung as junior counselors and activity specialists. At Camp Quinnahung, the Summer Youth Leaders receive mentoring from senior staff members. |