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Innovative Summer Camp for Young Activists and Change Makers

Is your son a vigilant recycler? Your daughter a passionate vegetarian? Your niece an idealist who wants to change the world? What are they doing this summer? What mentor or peer support do they have to take action for the things they care about?

There are camps for teens who like volleyball or theater or want to lose weight. But what about for kids who want to make a difference in addressing global warming or homelessness or homophobia?

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An innovative summer camp for kids ages 11-15, Youth Empowered Action (YEA) summer camp inspires and empowers youth leadership to make a difference by developing skills, knowledge, confidence, and community. Its attendees are the future heads of their high school or college environmental club, the future donors and volunteers of community nonprofits, the future executive directors of Greenpeace or the Humane Society or the Human Rights Campaign.

In its second year, YEA will be held in 2 locations this summer, one in the Bay Area, outside of Santa Cruz, and the other in the Portland, OR area.

Where: Santa Cruz, CA When: Session I July 25-30, Session II July 31-Aug 5, 2010

Where: Portland, OR When: August 14-21, 2010

"YEA is a place for young people who want to make a difference in the world to feel proud of their passion, to meet like-minded people and learn from one another, and to be inspired by possibilities for leadership," YEA Founder and director Nora Kramer said. "Our campers are amazing."

Parent Mike Boss of San Francisco shared, "I want you to know wonderful and vital YEA camp was for our daughter! She not only loved her time there, but she came back with something which I believe will be of lasting value to her, namely a sense that she can make a difference in the world."

YEA is a nonprofit 501(c)3 fiscally sponsored by Youth for Environmental Sanity.

Registration for this summer opens February 1st.

To find out more about YEA Camp, or to apply, visit www.yeacamp.org.

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