Summer Camps for Children With Sickle Cell Disease

For children living with sickle cell disease, getting to know other kids who have the condition can be a turning point in the journey toward emotional and physical well-being. Each summer, camps around the country provide a supportive, fun environment where children with sickle cell disease can enjoy summer activities, share similar experiences, and make new friends.

Camp counselors, volunteers, and medical staff provide 24-hour support, allowing children to discover new personal strengths, and learn skills to stay healthy with sickle cell disease.

These camps are supported by foundations and hospitals, and are provided either free of charge or at a nominal cost to campers and their families. Novartis assumes no responsibility for the camps.

Sickle Cell Regional Network Victory Junction Gang Camp
June 10 – 15
4500 Adam's Way
Randleman, NC 27317
(336) 498-9055

Camp Jubilee
July 7 – 13
Dallas, Texas
Email: Ethel Jernigan (ethel.jernigan@childrens.com)
Camp Jubilee is a week long camp experience for children with sickle cell disease. The camp provides opportunities for the children to acquire new skills, learn about their disorder and meet others affected with the disease. Sickle Cell Disease is a group of chronic inherited diseases of the red blood cells. The disease is most characterized by pain which can occur in any part of the body, infection and anemia. The disease primarily affects African-Americans and people of African descent, but also affects people of Hispanic, Greek and Indian origin.

Camp Crescent
July 9 – 13
St. Louis, MO
Email: klf0755@bjc.org
(314) 454-6041

SCDAA/Northeast Florida Chapter
July 10 – 15
Camp Boggy Creek
30500 Brantley Branch Road
Eustis, FL 32736
(904) 353-5737

SCDAI Bright Horizons Camp
July 21 – 28
Timber Pointe Outdoor Center
Dianne Bailey
(312) 345-1100
Bright Horizons Summer Camp's name is an apt description of the camp's purpose: brightening and broadening the vistas of sickle cell patients, ages 7 to 13. Each new day at Bright Horizons brings new and enriching experiences to the campers and here learning goes hand in hand with outdoor fun.

Camp Crescent Moon: Sickle Cell Disease Foundation of California
July 28 – August 4
Temescal Gateway Park
6133 Bristol Parkway, Suite 240
Culver City, CA 90230
(310) 693-0247
Email: Mary Brown (maryb@scdfc.org)
Each year over 125 children from Southern & Central California attend the nation's first week long summer camp of its kind, a specialized summer camp for children with Sickle Cell Disease.

Sickle Cell Disease Association of the Piedmont Sickle Cell Enrichment Camp
July 29 – August 3
P.O. Box 20964
Greensboro, NC 27420
(336) 274-1507

SCDAA – Central Alabama Chapter
July 29 – August 3
(205) 780-2355