Community Guide

Through school-based after school programs, Camp Fire takes our outcome-focused curriculum to the neighborhoods that need it the most. With community support, Camp Fire provides positive adult role models to help kids succeed with academic performance, avoid risky behaviors, develop good life skills and give back to their neighborhoods through community service.

We like to say we keep kids after school, and they love it because it is one way to express what we do. Far from the detention sort of keeping kids after school, we offer fulfilling after school programs for some of the area's most vulnerable children. They thrive in our programs and they need them. They find themselves and their potential, and they learn and grow. Camp Fire sees children for who they uniquely are. Impoverished and disenfranchised by no fault of their own, they need steady, caring adults to lift them up and model healthy, contributing lifestyles and habits. We do that. Hungry most of the time, we feed these children. And, we take Internet safety and appropriate touch programs into the schools to keep even more children safe. Camp Fire serves nearly 2,500 children in our after school programs. We serve more than 11,000 meals and send food home for weekend sustenance in more than 13,400 backpacks.

Camp Fire's unique approach inspires kids to achieve their dreams by incorporating nonconventional methods, including gardening, photography, and career development among many others. Camp Fire offers kids a blueprint for success, a solid foundation with the tools to achieve: