Adults and youth from grades eight through 12 are invited to come join one of 10 Camp Fire USA area day camps in the King and Kitsap County area, including Camp Sealth on Vashon Island.

Day camp relies on volunteer staff, so you may choose to be a counselor, craft specialist, junior staff, outdoor skills specialist, nurse, purchaser or other. Excellent training is offered for volunteers. Volunteers' preschool-aged children will also receive well supervised care. Teens who are not Camp Fire members will need to pay a $20 membership fee. Adult volunteers who work a full camp session may send their children for $35 per child!

Day camp creates lifelong memories. Being outside, youth feel wonder and excitement, plus a sense of adventure, freedom, and beauty. As one parent told us, “What was fun and meaningful for us when we were kids at summer camp, actually turns out to be many of the things that are fun and meaningful about being alive.”

Camp Fire USA staff and volunteers are trained and all are background checked. Camp Fire USA has ten area Day Camps in King and South Kitsap Counties and 8 weeks of day camp at Camp Sealth on Vashon Island.

Camp Fire USA is one of the nation's leading not-for-profit youth development organizations, serving nearly three quarters of a million participants annually. Camp Fire USA, with national headquarters in Kansas City, Missouri since 1977 and local offices in Seattle since 1911, provides all-inclusive, co-educational programs in hundreds of communities across the United States.

Camp Fire USA's mission is to build caring, confident youth and future leaders. By design, Camp Fire USA's programs include family and small group experiences, after school programs, camping and environmental education, child care and service learning. The Camp Fire USA experience builds confidence in younger children and provides hands-on, youth-driven leadership experiences for older youth. For more information, visit www.campfire-usa.org.

Janelle Kitson, Program Manager II and Day Camp Coordinator, 206 826 8910or janellek@campfire-usa.org.