The cost to professionally edit our website is cost prohibitive, but Camp Carmangay is alive and thriving in an era of evolution for kids summer camps.
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A troubled kid will become a troubled youth then a troubled adult without guidance.It takes longer than a weekend at summer camp to affect change in someone on a downward spiral.
Camp Carmangay became registered as both a Non-Profit as well as a Benevolent Society in 2003.
Originally established to offer resources for disadvantaged and high risk youth in the form of a summer camp.
Horses, campfires, tipis and a western environment created a fun place for a "kid to just be a kid".
Mentorship has always been a key resource and up until just prior to COVID transforming our lives, a summer camp for free was what we offered the troubled youth of our communities.
As opiates gained momentum and camp Carmangay followed the subtle evolution of society we realized that a cost-free camp during the summer months was not going to, relying solely upon its own merit, be able to sustain the diversifying needs of our youth, so Camp Carmangay's Board of Directors convened and mapped out strategies that would expand Camp Carmangay's role beyond a summer camp to a yearly retreat for youth, and more.
Completed in 2010, the building was constructed with a building permit for a turn-of-the century Hotel replica.
The upstairs reflects a six bedroom hotel as it would have appeared back then, along with a 30 seat cafe taking up the downstairs. The purpose of use for this building is to continue to offer both a retreat and a sober house experience that is intended to establish an opportunity for currently sober, previously addicted youth, to re-establish a connection with family or friends or at the very least, reliable housing and a sustainable life's plan.
Inclusive to the access of this opportunity, is the homeless AISH community. The intention also includes the creation of a retreat for youth who are exiting a detox centre with no affordable housing options and at risk of returning to the streets where addiction is rampant and near inevitable.
There are those who cannot afford to pay any cost and so those youth are registered at no cost.
Horses, dogs and lands that for thousands of years sustained the indigenous Blackfoot peoples are the central healing agents at Camp Carmangay.
-Brian Nimijean
