Dear Camp Joy Families and Partners, As you know, the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has had an extensive impact on our world and our communities. The Camp Joy staff and board of directors have been hard at work carefully reviewing the public health recommendations from the CDC and state of Ohio as well as the American…
In late March, our core value, Campers First, guided the decision to cancel traditional spring programming and suspend in-person summer camp sessions. This decision was necessary to ensure the health and safety of our at-risk campers. At this time, we surveyed camper families to determine how camp could best serve them during the stay-at-home order and…
Camp’s location and resources including on-site medical facility, overnight accommodations, and an industrial kitchen make us an ideal partner of agencies providing frontline response to the pandemic. FHF is approved by FEMA to provide quarantine housing for first responders. To date, 10 first responders from Morrow County have stayed at camp. FHF is an approved…
The spring Camp at Home program ran from April 1 – May 1 and featured: a weekly Camper Resource Roundup that featured partner organizations and programs, such as virtual museum tours and Doodle with Mo Willems, and a Caregiver Resource Roundup that provided resources on health and wellness and other tools to navigate the pandemic (click here…