Program areas at Frost Valley YMCA
Camping Frost Valley Ymca offers day camp, traditional overnight summer camp, teen and pre-teen adventure trips, horse camps, farm camp, and an adventure survival camp. Children and teens grow exponentially inn a safe and engaging environment, spending their first nights away from home, gaining skills as young leaders, and bonding with new friends. In keeping with Frost Valley's mission, as a nonprofit seeking to provide quality outdoor educational and recreational experiences for all, aims to provide financial assistance to 20% of program partipants, ensuring all children that want to attend camp are not prohibited becasue of their families' financial limitations. In 2022-2023, 3,879 day and overnight campers had a life transforming experience at Frost Valley.
Retreats between september and june, Frost Valley hosts scout troops, y guides, religious groups, nonprofits, and corporations also flock to Frost Valley for team building and immersion in nature. Frost Valley is home to a model forest, 672-panel solar array, raptor center, a maple sugaring house, and is part of the new york city watershed. Families come to Frost Valley year after year, some as many as 50 years running, to unplug from technology and connect on a deeper level with each other, staying for a weekend or one of our week-long family camps. Duriing 2022-2023, Frost Valley hosted 9,733 participants in its retreat programs.
Environmental education Frost Valley Ymca's staff guide students from primary and secondary schools in the tri-state area in building connections with their classmates, build deeper connections with their own self awareness, and strengthen connections with the environment and outside world, our science programs are designed to provide direct engagement, stimulate curiosity and wonder, and increase science literacy and critical thinking. Our team building curriculum is designed to emphasize them value of working together while recognizing individual strengths within the strengths of the entire group. During 2022-2023, Frost Valley provided an immersive environmental education experience for 8,000 participants.
The tokyo Frost Valley Ymca partnership, a unique global collaboration between Ymca associations built on our mutual values, provides a home base for japanese families to take repite formn the school, work, and social stresses of life in a foreign country. To that end, Frost Valley provides japanese children with a unique summer camp experience including typical summer camp activities: campfires, cabin groups, outdoor exploration, and adventure programs, as well as cultural immersion programs.
OTHER PROGRAMS - COMMUNITY PROGRAMS ARE AVAILABLE TO PROVIDE QUALITY, AFFORDABLE AFTER SCHOOL CHILD CARE AND DAY CAMP FOR FAMILIES IN THE SURROUNDING RURAL COMMUNITIES. WE ALSO PROVIDE A FREE MEAL DELIVERY SERVICE FOR FAMILIES IN THE TOWN OF DENNING WHO OTHERWISE WOUld NOT BE ABLE TO PROVIDE WARM, NUTRIOUS MEALS FOR THEIR HOMES.