Children's Brain Tumor Foundation Partners with Happiness Is Camping to Bring Family Brain Tumor Camp to the New York City Area
New York, NY, February 05, 2011 --(PR.com)-- Children’s Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF) announced today that they will organize and support the first pediatric brain tumor family camp to be run in the New York City area in late August, 2011.
CBTF is partnering with Jenna’s Rainbow Foundation to underwrite this camp in a continuation of a long-standing partnership to benefit children with brain and spinal cord tumors and cancer and their families.
The Children's Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF) was founded in 1988 by a group of parents, physicians and friends to improve the treatment, quality of life, and the long term outlook for children with brain and spinal cord tumors through research support, education, and advocacy to families and survivors. Its goal is to ensure parents are informed and able to advocate effectively on behalf of their children.
One way the organization does this is to create communities in which afflicted children, siblings, and parents can share information, emotions, hope, dreams, and practical approaches. Family camps are one of the best ways to initiate these communities. Because camps are so valued by families CBTF wants to bring this opportunity to as many families as possible and especially to families that would be challenged traveling to a distant location or spending a full week away from home.
Happiness Is Camping (HIC), located on 145 scenic acres in Hardwick, New Jersey and just an hour away from midtown Manhattan, is the ideal venue for CBTF’s first pediatric brain tumor family camp. Camp facilities include spacious, air-conditioned and handicapped accessible cabins, a beautiful dining hall, new full size gym, heated and lighted pool, climbing tower, ropes course, recreation building and a sparkling lake at the camp's center. A new Health Center and Gym are both air-conditioned and are state of the art facilities. A recreation building, arts and crafts center and fully equipped Health Center is equipped to handle on-going care enabling HIC to welcome children with special medical needs.
Linda Wachtel, a CBTF board member and parent of a brain tumor survivor, remarked, “Pediatric brain tumors affect an entire family, and we know from our twenty-two years of experience that families benefit enormously from connecting to one another. We also know that many families are challenged to travel long distances from the New York area, where many of those we help reside. Happiness Is Camping, which has a wonderful country campus close by to the city, presents an ideal solution. We are also so grateful that Jenna’s Rainbow Foundation has agreed to again join us to support this type of cam p experience.”
Kurt Struver, Executive Director of Happiness Is Camping, added, “We welcome the opportunity to expand our programming to include families. Happiness is Camping for the last thirty years has served children with cancer, and we are excited to now have a program that responds to the needs of whole families dealing with a child’s cancer diagnosis.”
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CBTF is partnering with Jenna’s Rainbow Foundation to underwrite this camp in a continuation of a long-standing partnership to benefit children with brain and spinal cord tumors and cancer and their families.
The Children's Brain Tumor Foundation (CBTF) was founded in 1988 by a group of parents, physicians and friends to improve the treatment, quality of life, and the long term outlook for children with brain and spinal cord tumors through research support, education, and advocacy to families and survivors. Its goal is to ensure parents are informed and able to advocate effectively on behalf of their children.
One way the organization does this is to create communities in which afflicted children, siblings, and parents can share information, emotions, hope, dreams, and practical approaches. Family camps are one of the best ways to initiate these communities. Because camps are so valued by families CBTF wants to bring this opportunity to as many families as possible and especially to families that would be challenged traveling to a distant location or spending a full week away from home.
Happiness Is Camping (HIC), located on 145 scenic acres in Hardwick, New Jersey and just an hour away from midtown Manhattan, is the ideal venue for CBTF’s first pediatric brain tumor family camp. Camp facilities include spacious, air-conditioned and handicapped accessible cabins, a beautiful dining hall, new full size gym, heated and lighted pool, climbing tower, ropes course, recreation building and a sparkling lake at the camp's center. A new Health Center and Gym are both air-conditioned and are state of the art facilities. A recreation building, arts and crafts center and fully equipped Health Center is equipped to handle on-going care enabling HIC to welcome children with special medical needs.
Linda Wachtel, a CBTF board member and parent of a brain tumor survivor, remarked, “Pediatric brain tumors affect an entire family, and we know from our twenty-two years of experience that families benefit enormously from connecting to one another. We also know that many families are challenged to travel long distances from the New York area, where many of those we help reside. Happiness Is Camping, which has a wonderful country campus close by to the city, presents an ideal solution. We are also so grateful that Jenna’s Rainbow Foundation has agreed to again join us to support this type of cam p experience.”
Kurt Struver, Executive Director of Happiness Is Camping, added, “We welcome the opportunity to expand our programming to include families. Happiness is Camping for the last thirty years has served children with cancer, and we are excited to now have a program that responds to the needs of whole families dealing with a child’s cancer diagnosis.”
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Joseph Fay
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www.cbtf.org
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212-448-9494
www.cbtf.org
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