Camp Fire - Alaska

School age program: Camp Fire Alaska offers both licensed and non-fee based school age programs located in the elementary school in which the participants are enrolled or low-income neighborhoods in which the youth reside. The program offers youth safe and protected places to play, along with adult supervision and additional help with homework as well as challenging activities, learning experiences, and meaningful opportunities for involvement and discovery to explore interests, develop self-esteem, self-reliance, and new skills. Scholarships are available.

Summer camping programs: Camp Fire's summer camps consist of the rural Alaska program, Camp k on kenai lake, and Camp si-la-meo day Camp providing campers with opportunities to be outside, connected to nature, learning new skills, making new friends, and getting a sense of life that is larger than one's self. Supportive guidance of caring adult counselors help campers build their own uinique community. Summer camping programs are designed to increase self-awareness, positive values, social skills, acceptance, appreciation of one's self and a sense of belonging as well as increased knowledge of and appreciation for the natural world. Because Alaska consistently has more than 10 times the natural average of drowning incedents each year, the programs include boating safety, cold-water safety, healthy life choices, nutrition, and dental care as well as recreational activities such as creafts, games, hikes, camp-outs, and youth community service projects. Scholarships are available.