Apply HERE for 2024 Camp Safe Berks & Camp Safe Berks Jr.!
Both Camps are Free! Including Meals & Transportation!
These fun and interactive day camps offer youth the opportunity to learn about social justice and how to collaborate to create positive change. Campers also meet new friends and positive adult role models, and enjoy games, art projects and guest speakers. After Camp ends, Meetups are held throughout the year, offering youth the opportunity to stay connected, develop friendships, and continue work on positive initiatives in their schools and communities.
Campers who attended Camp Safe Berks in 2023 can also apply to serve as a Peer Educators.
Looking to volunteer? Apply here!
Please send completed application to Ashley Moyer, email below.
Any questions, contact Ashley Moyer, Director of Education & Outreach Programs, at AshleyM@SafeBerks.org or 610-373-1206, ext. 132.
Camp Safe Berks – A Teen Alliance to End Violence
Camp Safe Berks is a free week-long summer day camp which brings together Berks County youth and adults to form alliances of support that promote peace and justice in our schools and communities.
Camp Safe Berks begins the process of developing youth as leaders in oppression-work and is built on the principle that violence is anything that hinders, limits, or damages us as human beings, including not only direct hurt but the long-term internalized effects of that hurt.
Throughout the week we will focus on several Oppressions including Adultism, Racism, Sexism, Heterosexism, and Classism. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the role Oppression plays in being a “root cause” of violence in our society. Participants will engage in honest discussions and group activities that will build over the week. These activities are designed to further cultivate their ability to build empathy and acceptance of differences in others.
In addition, participants will learn and develop the skills to see, understand, address social injustice, and build strategies to be promoters of peace and justice in their schools and communities. Camp Safe Berks is designed to ignite a passion within youth participants to not only spur their own personal growth, development and improved well-being, but also to become champions for social justice change throughout their community.