2024 Winter Camp Independence
DATES: December 30 or December 31, 2024 (each camper will attend one day)
TIME: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm
LOCATION: Webster Groves Recreation Complex, 33 E. Glendale, Webster, MO
CAMPERS: Children and young adults with a primary diagnosis of Cerebral Palsy (CP) between the ages of 7-21 years old, functioning at a first-grade level or higher and able to follow directions. Campers must also be able to sit independently or with minimal adaptive support (ie: wheelchair).
ACTIVITIES: Camp activities will include adaptive basketball, dance, soccer, martial arts, baseball, ice skating, yoga, and more. Participants will receive specialized attention from pediatric therapists in adaptive sports programs designed to challenge campers to increase their activity level, aerobic fitness, strength, and balance in a safe, fun, and rewarding atmosphere. Our program will provide campers the opportunity to experience sports in a whole new way. Our goals are to offer a wide variety of adaptive sports options to keep individuals with CP active for life and to help them embrace the concept that health and physical fitness are possible and necessary to maximize INDEPENDENCE.
REGISTRATION: Winter Camp Independence 2024 registration will be open from October 15, 2024 to Nov. 18, 2024. If there are more registrants than can be accommodated at Camp, we will use the lottery system to pick attendees.
The link will open on 10/15/24 and close on 11/18/24. Follow this link to express interest in having your child attend a day of Winter Camp.
Please call or email Mary Eckhard with questions: [email protected], 314-305-2353.
Volunteer at Camp Independence:
If you would like to volunteer at 2024 Winter Camp Independence, and are over the
age of 16, please complete the volunteer application.
If you volunteered at Summer Camp 2024 and completed the application there is no need to fill out the Winter application but please email Julie Grassi with your interest. If you have questions about volunteer opportunities, please email Julie Grassi: [email protected].
The Carol and Paul Hatfield Cerebral Palsy Sports and Rehab Program is supported by generous donors to the St. Louis Children's Hospital Foundation.
