The Circle of Life Camp

Until there is a cure . . . there's the Circle of Life
Education and psychosocial support for children with diabetes to live happy and healthy lives.

Founded 1996

The Circle of Life Camp, Inc., a not-for-profit resident camp for children and adolescents with diabetes, was founded in 1996. The camp provides the fundamental, age-appropriate diabetes education and social support essential for adolescents to properly manage their diabetes. The campers experience a unique opportunity to interact in a relaxed and supportive atmosphere, which fosters understanding, acceptance of their condition, and proper emotional development. They are able to share their knowledge, experience, and concerns as well as participate in educational sessions and recreational camping activities.

We are fundraising to expand the current Circle of Life Camp into a comprehensive Circle of Life Center. The Center will include a permanent site for the camp that would offer year-round programming, as well as a residential treatment facility for children struggling to manage their diabetes. The residential treatment facility would offer children with diabetes the medical, psychological, and social support they need to manage their disease, cope with it and the demands of adolescence, and overcome psychological problems while receiving the education to maintain their academic standing in school. Our effort to build the Center is critical to the exponential number of children diagnosed with diabetes each year. In addition to the already challenging normal developmental processes of growing up, children with diabetes have to balance the daily demands of disease-management into their lives. Unfortunately, many youngsters have difficulty coping with this chronic disease and can suffer physical and psychological complications. The Circle of Life Center, which will be the only one of its kind in the world, will be able to help thousands of children each year, so that when they grow up, they will be happy, healthy, productive members of society instead of a burden on our healthcare system.

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