Kehilla Kayf –

Where Everyone Feels Like They Belong

At Kehilla Kayf, we pride ourselves on providing an encouraging, accepting, fun and safe environment for your child.  The goal of camp is to develop or strengthen feelings of success, confidence, enthusiasm, and self-worth for each of our campers.  Our main focus is on social skill building. Every experience at Kehilla Kayf is designed to help develop increased self-esteem, heightened communication skills, improved peer interactions, and to encourage social appropriateness and personal independence.

Kehilla Kayf, a co-ed sleep away camp, partnering with Camp Poyntelle/Lewis Village, is located on 700 wooded acres in Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Building on the strengths of Camp Kehilla, our award winning day camp, pre-teens and teens ages 10 – 16 with attention deficit disorders and/or mild social skill disorders with or without learning disabilities, speech and language delays, emotionally handicapping conditions and other special needs, will experience the joys of attending a sleep-away camp while also benefiting from an inclusion program with mainstream campers.

Activities

Campers can participate in a wide array of recreational activities that will lead to personal success and a feeling of accomplishment at our state of the art facilities.  Our goal is to make your child’s experience at camp a remarkable one.  Here is a list of activities only offered at the sleepaway camp. 

Watersports at the 69-acre Private Lake

20 ft. water trampoline

Canoeing

Fishing

Tubing

Row Boating

Sailing

Other Activities

High Ropes Course                                                                                                                                         

Low Ropes Course

Campfires and cookouts

Zip Line

Nature Hikes

New for 2006 – Social Skill Building Groups

Our Bunks

Our large and spacious fully modern bunks are equipped with individual shower and bathroom stalls and a separate sink area.  Campers are given plenty of storage space for their personal belongings.  They are close to all facilities as well as to administrative buildings and the infirmary. 

Our Dining Hall

Our dining hall serves family-style kosher style meals and snack.  There are always many offerings at meals, including vegetarian alternatives and a salad bar.  We are also prepared to accommodate special dietary needs.

Trips

Though campers are always on the go and enjoy their days at camp, trips offer campers a different experience.  Past off-camp trips have included:

-         Amusement and Water Parks

-         State Parks

-         Movies

-         Bowling

CAMP KEHILLA DAY CAMP

In the Hebrew language, Kehilla means community, to the high functioning, Learning disables, speech and language delayed, Asperger's, emotionally handicapped and attention deficit children and teens of Nassau, Suffolk, Queens, Kehilla means a summer of fun and friendship.

Located on the beautiful 450 acre Henry Kaufmann Campgrounds in Wheatley Heights, Long Island.  Camp Kehilla features 4 oversized outdoor pools, daily swims and day trips to exceited fun-filled places.  Recognizing the value of expressive therapies, children also participate in art therapy provided by licensed art therapists, as well as engage in drama, puppetry and music.

Our small groups and camper to counselor ratios enable us to provide the higher-functioning special needs child with personalized attention.  Supervised by social workers and special education professionals, our goal is to provide an exciting, fun-filled and positive summer experience while maintaining gains made by each child as a result of his/her regular education.

KEHILLA KAYF SLEEPAWAY CAMP

Boys (Ages 9-16)

Session 1 (4 weeks): July 2 - July 30

Session 2 (3 weeks): July 30 - August 20

Full Summer (7 weeks): July 2 - August 20

Girls (Ages: 9-12)

Session 2 (3 weeks): July 30 - August 20

Girls (Ages: 13-16)

Session 1 (4 weeks): July 2 - July 30

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CAMP KEHILLA DAY CAMP

JUNIOR CAMP (AGES 5-8)

INTERS CAMP (AGES 9-12)

SENIOR CAMP (AGES 13-16)

Full Summer - 6/29-8/18

Session 1 - 6/29-7/22

Session 2 - 7/25-8/18

Session 3 - 6/29-8/5