Summer Camps for Kids and Teens
During the summer, WFP offers half-day summer camp programming to provide children, tweens, and teens an opportunity to learn, practice, and master their skills! Summer provides a great opportunity for kids to receive some tips and support to boost their confidence and social skills before the new school year begins. Just like our weekly groups, our summer camps are designed to be fun, engaging, educational, and interactive to help your child or teen reach their full potential. Camps offer a unique blend of role playing, games, crafts, books, outside play, videos, modeling, practice, positive reinforcement, and “learning time.” We keep the leader/camper ratio low so that children and teens can get customized live “coaching.”
While our summer camps are held at a WFP office, some camps for older children will sometimes host days “off site” to allow campers the opportunity to practice their skills in “real life” settings (such as at a nearby bowling alley or park!). Our camps provide kids, tweens, and teens the opportunity to learn and practice skills with peers in a safe, relaxed environment while receiving immediate feedback and coaching.
Social Skills Covered in Summer Camp
Our social skills camps will cover a variety of different topics such as:
- Greeting Others and Joining In
- Making Conversation
- Dealing with Bullying and Teasing
- Using Manners
- Conflict Resolution
- Sportsmanship
- Respect
- Accepting "no"
- Boosting Self-Esteem
Social Skills Summer Camp Offerings
During the summer, we offer half-day (4-Hour) social skills camps, grouped by grade:
- Social Sprouts (Pre-K- Kindergarten)
- BEST Buddies (Elementary)
- CONNECTween (Middle School)
- CONNECTeen (High School)
We occasionally offer specialty summer camps. Past camps have included topics such as DBT, Anxiety, Study Skills, Gifted, Identity and Art. Be sure to ask about our full list of current camp offerings.
List of Summer Camps:
Grades PreK - K (Rising); Summer 2024
This summer, your child can improve his social skills by practicing conversational skills, greeting people, listening, working together, playing with others in a group, taking turns, and sharing. Before heading back to school, many kids could use a little help improving their play, conversational, and social skills. This camp will offer a unique blend of lessons, activities, games, role play, worksheets, and videos to help enhance social skills and self-esteem. Social skills classes and groups provide children with a safe and relaxed environment to practice skills with peers, and receive immediate feedback and coaching.
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Grades 1-5 (Rising); Summer 2024
This summer, your child can learn to make and keep friends, develop better conversation skills, enhance his or her self-confidence, learn to handle conflicts peacefully, and continue academic progress. Before heading back to school, many kids could use a little help improving their social skills. This camp will offer a unique blend of role play, games, craft activities, books, videos, modeling, positive reinforcement, communication with parents, and "learning time." Social skills classes and groups provide children with a safe and relaxed environment to practice skills with peers, and receive immediate feedback and coaching.
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Grades 6-9 (Rising); Summer 2024
This summer, do you want your middle schooler to learn how to make and keep new friends? Would you like to enhance her self-confidence? Do you want him to learn how to handle conflicts peacefully? Deal with teasing and bullying? Battle peer pressure? Combat social anxiety and fears? Before heading back to school, many tweens can use a little help improving their social skills. This week-long summer day camp offers a fun blend of interactive activities where kids can learn social skills, practice them with peers, and receive real-time coaching and correction from our instructors.
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Grades 9-12 (Rising); Summer 2024
Would you like your teen to get out into the community, have fun with peers, and further develop social skills all at the same time? Wynns Family Psychology is pleased to offer an advanced social skills summer camp for teenagers! This week-long, activity-based camp provides teens the opportunity to learn and practice social skills in "real time." Using a combination of "in-office" interpersonal group therapy and community-based social activities (bowling, mini-golf, outdoor activities, etc.), this summer camp will help your teen build self-esteem and improve life skills.
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Grades 6-8 (Rising); Summer 2024
This summer, help your middle schooler with the DBT skills of mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
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Grades 9-12; Summer 2024
This summer, help your high schooler with the DBT skills of mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness.
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Grades 9-12 (Rising); TBD
C.R.E.A.T.E. stands for Creatively Recognizing & Exploring A Teen's Experience. In this group, we aim to help navigate the many dimensions of identity, an important and complicated journey for teenages. We use art activities to help explore: Prioritized Values, Awareness of self-identity, and Emotional experiences
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Grades 1-5 (Rising); TBA
Do you have a child who struggles with feeling anxious? Does he worry excessively about peer relationships, testing, or social events? Is she able to balance among family time, friendships, academics, and extracurricular activities effectively? Does he often procrastinate? Does she express a fear of the unknown? Elementary years can be challenging and overwhelming times filled with many changes. Even milestones such as transitioning to a new school environment can create feelings of stress. Our summer camp will give your child time and space to learn and explore how to manage feelings of anxiety through a series of topics utilizing evidence-based techniques.
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Grades 9-12; Summer 2024
The teen years are a time of increasing pressure and stress. Young people often find themselves overwhelmed with academics, athletics, fine arts, part-time jobs, and social events. The struggle to successfully balance commitments can lead to increased worry, anxiety, frustration, irritability, and depressed feelings. This Mindfulness-Based Summmer Camp for high school students is designed to decrease stress by teaching skills for mindfulness, decreased judgment, relaxation, and good self-care.
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Grades 2-6 (Rising); TBA
This summer, would you like for your child to exercise her mind, improve social skills, AND increase emotional intelligence? We offer this novel experience—combining intellectual, social, and emotional skill-building in one fun day camp! Many gifted kids have emotional sensitivities, anxiety, or social struggles along with their intellectual/academic needs. This week-long, activity-based camp will provide children with the enriching opportunity to engage in fun, intellectually stimulating activities with other gifted peers, while also boosting their social/emotional functioning. Gifted enrichment PLUS emotional intelligence and social skills enhancement in one fun week!
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Grades 9-12 (Rising); TBA
Would you like your child to enhance his performance in school, become prepared for success, AND have fun with his peers at the same time? How about practical strategies to motivate studying, enhance academic intelligence, and improve Emotional Intelligence (EI)? Are EOG’s and final exams right around the corner? Our study skills camps teach a unique blend of basic study skills, higher-level organizational skills, and time management skills to help your child feel more comfortable with and get better grades at school! Whether your child has AD/HD, a Learning Disability, or simply struggles to succeed academically, we can help by teaching study and organizational skills.
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