Camp Odayin
- Oakdale, VL
- Crosslake, MN
- Camp Type: Online Camps, Overnight, Family
- Age of Campers: 6 - 18
- Gender of Campers: Coed
- Year Established: 2001
- Accreditations: 1
This is a basic camp listing: no contact information is provided.
Camp is good medicine!
Camp Odayin provides fun, safe and supportive camp experiences and community building opportunities for young people with heart disease and their families.
Overview
Camp Odayin’s summer camp for children with heart disease in grades 1-11 is an overnight experience where campers benefit from connecting with other young people who may share similar health, emotional, and social concerns. Camper eligibility is determined upon recommendation by a pediatric cardiologist and approval by the Camp Odayin Medical Director.
The camp directors and your child’s cardiologist can help you assess if your child should apply to attend camp, especially if this is your child’s first experience away from home. Free bus transportation is available from both Milwaukee and Chicago, to camp and back.
Camp Staff
Camp Odayin is staffed with medical professionals and trained cabin counselors who supervise campers at all times. Two pediatric cardiologists are at camp for all five days, as well as a nurse per every 7-8 children. Camp counselors sleep in cabins with the campers and they have been trained with basic cardiac knowledge as well as how to deal with homesickness.
Each cabin’s nurse oversees the health of their assigned campers and distributes their medications. Camp Odayin has a fully equipped cardiac health center, which is staffed around the clock. Accommodations can be easily made for campers who need medical attention during sleeping hours.
Camp Eligibility Guidelines
In order to have an application reviewed by our medical team, a young person attending Summer Camp must meet the following requirements:
- Be in grade 1-11 at time of registration
- The child’s primary health issue is heart disease
- The child has age appropriate knowledge of their heart disease and functions cognitively within 1-2 years of their age
- The child is seen by a cardiologist on a regular basis
- The child is either on a cardiac medication or has had a surgical intervention
- The child must be independent in living skills and daily self-care (dress, shower and eat independently and is self-sufficient during their school day)
- The child willingly participates and effectively interacts in group-based activities
- The child adjusts successfully to a community living environment
- The child demonstrates nonaggressive, cooperative behavior
Accreditations
- ACA
Camp Focus
Special Needs Camps: Other Special Needs
All Activities
- Acting
- Arts and Crafts
- Dance
- Music
- Other Arts
- Theater
- General Sports
- Archery
- Basketball
- Equestrian and Horseback Riding
- Fishing
- GaGa
- Rowing
- Swimming
- Waterskiing
- Water Sports
- Canoeing
- Rock Climbing
- Ropes Course
- Talent Show
- Team Building
- Other Special Needs