Summer Camps for kids with an incarcerated parent
May 4th, 2011 | Category: Lubbock County, Navasota County, Potter County, Randall CountyEast Texas: Camp Allen – Camp Good News, Navasota Texas, Camp Good News website
This camp in the Piney Woods is open to children between the ages of 10 and 15. Camp Good News will be held June 9 – 14, 2013. There is no cost to the parent or caregiver, however, participation is limited to 60 children who are accepted on a first come, first served basis. Camp Good News is held at beautiful Camp Allen (near Navasota) which is owned by the Episcopal Diocese of Texas.
For more information write or call:
Ed Davis, Coordinator
Box 388
Huntsville, TX 77342
edsalpc@yahoo.com
or contact Restorative Justice Ministries at 936-291-3153
Visit www.campallen.org for more information on the camp
Panhandle: Promise Camp, Amarillo Texas
Promise Camp is located on the Bishop Quarterman Ranch and is open to children entering 4th, 5th, and 6th grades.
Promise Camp is tuition free to all campers. Transportation to and from camp is provided to children living in and around
the cities of Amarillo, Lubbock, Abilene, Midland-Odessa, and San Angelo.
For more information write or call:
Katy Hoskins
email at Katy@promisecamp.org
325-235-7151
Visit www.promisecamp.org for more information on the camp and the dates that camp is offered
This info on summer camps originally came to us from a wonderful organization, Texas Inmates Families Association (TIFA), which supports and provides information to families of inmate in the state prison system (TDCJ). We know of one fine young man who went to one of these camps and it raised his spirit and helped him realize he was not the only kid missing his dad. Visit the helpful TIFA website at http://tifa.org/
Just a note to say that Camp Good News for children of the incarcerated is being held June 9-14, 2013. All other information above about camp Good News is correct. The web site for Camp Good News is http://www.campgoodnews4kids.org . Thanks, Ed Davis, Director
P.S. Katy Hoskins is no longer director of Promise camp in Amarillo.
Someone (I think Ed) spoke to the Kairos Outside of Texas about a year ago in Cedar Park north of Austin telling us about this camp for kids with an encarcerated family member. It was too late to get our act together to include the info in our guests’ clasing packets for Kairos Outside of Central Texas #1. This year we are thinking ahead and want info for 36 guests, or permission to copy the brochure if it is still current info. Of course, we’ll need the dates. The website still has 2013’s date in it.
Our weekend is March 28 – 30, 2014, and our ministry is for women who have a loved one incarserated (man or woman, spouse, girlfriend, mother, sister etc.) often it is the spouse who has the kids to raise on her own and both kids and spouse would appreciate a few days away from their reg routine.
Thank you for all you do and get done for our youth, Joy Perry (joyperrychas@yahoo.com)
We need more information about this…Can you tell us the name of your group?