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Camp Border Collie for Kids is a unique summer program for inner-city children from NYC and Newark that unites the rescued border collies in residence at Glen Highland Farm in the Sweet Border Collie Rescue Program with the children in a format that:
The program is designed to foster and promote the positive principles of nonviolence between children and their environment through the human/animal/nature relationship. At the Farm, this unique work is for the rescue dogs. |
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Every summer, up to thirty different Border Collies participate in Camp Border Collie for Kids, a unique learning program for at risk inner-city children from the Bronx, Manhattan, Brooklyn and Newark, NJ. Each child is paired with a rescue dog to discover a gentle, positive approach to handling and training. Coming from horrific cultural violence, these children transform their understanding of how to care for and love a dog that clearly will love them back if treated properly. |
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While the benefits to the children are amazing, the dogs also gain new experiences in relationship. The program builds confidence in shy or abused Border Collies, mentally stimulates those dogs that are highly focused and need work, and gives the dogs a purposeful experience of bonding with the children. The dogs accompany the children during the day in training classes and agility course work and at night, sleep with them in the bunkhouses. The bond between a child who has also been misunderstand, abused or abandoned with a dog in the same situation, is an unparalleled way to promote healing. |
| A high percentage of the dogs in this program are adopted into homes shortly after their summer experience in the kid’s camp program. |
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This program of Canine
Assisted Learning as changed the lives of 100's of children
that have had the opportunity to meet the rescue dogs. |
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CAMP LOCATION Camp Border Collie for Kids is located in upstate New York at Glen Highland Farm, about 75 miles southwest of Albany. The farm sits on 175 acres of wooded and cleared rolling land with fishing ponds and streams and miles of hiking trails. |
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The Canine Assisted Learning program serves children age 10-14 from NYC and Newark, NJ. The children spend their camp time living outdoors in their own private camp village. The campers live in roomy, heated cabins with a resident counselor. All activities are supervised by college age counselors. Meals are always hot and nourishing and prepared over an open grille and served in a protected dining shelter. The camp village is equipped with flushing toilets and hot showers…. And lots and lots of dogs!!! |
| Since 2001 we have brought more than 300 children from NYC and Newark, NJ to our nationally recognized Canine Assisted Learning Program in upstate New York. We work in partnership with the The Partnership with Children in Brooklyn and NYC, The Harlem Day Charter School, Kipp Infinity Charter School, 6 pulic schools in NYC and The Link Community School and TEAM Academy in Newark, NJ to bring children from NYC and Newark into this innovative program. These institutions are strong advocated for the Canine Assisted Learning Program and their respective Directors of Development are all available for referencing. | |
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HOW YOU CAN HELP! SPONSOR A CHILD—For $1500, one inner-city child can experience this innovative camp, learning how to love a dog in need, and change their perspective on life. You can make that possible for them.Camp Border Collie for Kids is SOLELY supported by donations. Our ninth summer with 32 inner-city kids included the cost of: housing; clothing; food; beverage; staff; supplies; field trips; transportation; various equipment and insurance. The cost, on average, is $1800 per child for a two-week stay. We are budgeting for the same basic needs for 2010, hosting 30 children and implementing some major capital projects. We will incur costs of $90,000+, so your support is important.VOLUNTEER —Join us at the Farm with your hands and heart to play with dogs, help with projects and offer your skills where it really matters with dogs or kids. |
Contact us: sweetbcrescue@citlink.net