Summer Camp Stipends

About this recommendation

Foster youth may miss out on the childhood experience of summer camp because their foster parents can't afford it. While some camps specialize in foster youth and/or in bringing separated foster siblings together, kids in care deserve to attend camp with their peers, too.

How to do this

  • Offer summer camp stipends to foster families, including unlicensed kinship caregivers.

Anticipated costs and benefits

Costs

Benefits


  • Cost of camp
  • Youth in care get normal childhood experiences
  • Summer camp is an indirect form of respite for foster parents

Who's doing this

1 of 54 states and territories have implemented this recommendation.

Virginia provides a $500 stipend for summer camp to every child.