Fall Paddle Adventure September 8th – September 10th
Fall Fishing and Target Adventure November 3rd – November 5th
Fall Paddle Adventure September 8th – September 10th
Join us for a weekend on the water. A sensory and adventure seekers delight. This experience caters itself to the development of friendships and regulation skills while getting dirty and smelly. No paddling experience necessary. Paddle logistics and destination determined by conditions at the time and group make up
Fall Fishing and Target Adventure November 3rd – November 5th
Our Fishing and Target Adventure is a base camp experience full of opportunities for play, expression and fun. Activities include fishing, archery, folk craft, and all of the usual Aerie shenanigan’s. Come spend time where quirky is cool and odd is a compliment.
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Aerie Experiences offers two and three night respite camp weekends tailored for children and teens. Participants will spend their nights in a camp or wilderness setting participating in prescriptive, traditional camp and back country activities. Participants will have the opportunity to complete our ropes course, play group games, fish, learn basic camp craft and make new friends.
Our strength-based program is designed and sequenced to be fun, build confidence and competence through challenge, accomplishment and expression. The program is intended to foster and develop friendship and social skills through encouragement and practice of effective communication, listening skills, group play, self advocacy, problem solving, and other life skills. These are taught through the utilization of metaphor that mirror situations encountered by participants in their daily life in a safe, fun, unique and structured setting. Course activities are used as a vehicle to increase confidence and competence, ultimately, increasing the child’s ability to participate more comfortably and successfully in social settings.
Ideal candidates for this program include teenagers navigating social or personal difficulties stemming from:
- Learning Disabilities
- Asperger’s
- High Functioning Autism
- Poor Self Concept
- Developmental Delays
- Underdeveloped/ Weakened Identity
- Disruption of Home (death, divorce)
- Social Awkwardness & Anxiety
The programs is designed to be fun, exciting, challenging, and to inspire enduring friendships and recreational pursuits. Program activities include:
- High ropes
- Low ropes course
- Adventure based counseling activities
- Expressive arts
- Fishing
- Camp fire and cooking
- Basic camp craft
- Storytelling
- Paddling
- Rock Climbing
- Primitive Skills