FACES CAMP is JUNE 15 - 20, 2025
Registration Deadline is May 15, 2025​
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What: FACES Camp - a camp for kids with a facial difference!
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traditional co-ed overnight summer camp for youth with facial differences ages 7 -17.
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featuring Bring a Buddy to Camp, where siblings or BFFs can experience camp together while meeting kids with similar medical conditions.
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FACES Camp offers outdoor adventure, noncompetitive sports, campfires, crafts,
and talent night.
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FACES Camp campers bunk together in assigned cabins with a FACES Camp Counselor.
Counselors, each with a craniofacial difference, have an intimate understanding of the campers' needs.
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Staff to camper ratio averages 1:5. ACA Accredited
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FACES Camp can accommodate children with a feeding tube and tracheotomy who can walk the wooded campus and do not require a personal nurse or caregiver.
When: June 15 - 20, 2025
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Where: FACES Camp is located at Camp Woodmont in Cloudland, Georgia, on 170 woodland acre campus on top of Lookout Mountain (approximately 2 hours north of Atlanta and 30 minutes south of Chattanooga, Tennessee).
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Cost: $495.00*
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FACES offers generous tuition and travel scholarships for families needing financial assistance for their child to attend FACES Camp.
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Contact: M.E. Sanders at mary@faces-cranio.org or call the FACES office at 800-332-2373 for details.
Camp Details: Click here to read about camp life from check-in to closing ceremonies, to activities, and daily schedule.
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*Thanks to the generosity of the Shirakiku Foundation and individual donors, FACES can provide tuition at the highly reduced rate of $495 to all our FACES Camp families.
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FACES Camp director Ashley Rhodes, born with Crouzon syndrome, is highly involved in hands-on leadership and supervision of all aspects of FACES Camp. She is excited to bring the camp experience to children with facial differences. Ashley says, “It’s important for kids to know that they can do almost anything they set their mind to, regardless of their facial difference.”
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Accreditation by the American Camp Association (ACA) and two generations of family management/ownership (70+ years combined experience) gives campers and parents a highly supervised program.
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To learn more about FACES Camp from camp director, Ashley Rhodes, click on the video.
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For Immediate Release
FACES Camp – a summer camp for kids with facial differences
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March 26, 2025, Chattanooga, TN — In its seventh year, a transformative summer camp for children with craniofacial anomalies located 45 minutes southwest of Chattanooga provides a memorable experience for children from all over the United States. FACES Camp is a traditional overnight summer camp that brings together youth with craniofacial differences to experience a week at camp with other children who have similar medical conditions. Located in Cloudland, GA, on Lookout Mountain, the camp is for co-ed youth ages 7-17 and will take place from June 15 to 20. Registration is through the FACES Camp website.
Since 2019, FACES Camp has provided a welcoming environment for children with facial differences to experience the typical joys of attending a summer camp, offering activities such as swimming, archery, horseback riding, rock climbing, and campfires. Friendships are formed, and memories are created to last a lifetime.
Campers have craniofacial anomalies, including Cleft Lip and Palate, Crouzon, Apert, Saethre-Chotzen, Treacher Collins, Pfeiffer, Pierre Robin, Goldenhar, and Hemifacial Microsomia, as well as facial differences resulting from cancer, burns, and accidents. FACES Camp can accommodate children with a feeding tube and tracheotomy who can walk the wooded campus and do not require a personal nurse or caregiver. The camp counselors, each with a craniofacial difference, have an intimate understanding of the campers' needs.
Camp director Ashley Rhodes, born with Crouzon syndrome, says, “The best way to foster their independence is to let them come to camp where they can be independent within a setting that has the appropriate medical boundaries put in place.” Rhodes adds, “It is important for kids to know they can do anything they set their minds to regardless of their facial difference. In a week, the children are allowed to grow and learn to help themselves instead of relying on their parents.” Campers can also invite a sibling or friend to experience camp together through the Bring a Buddy to Camp program.
FACES: The National Craniofacial Association hosts FACES Camp and covers half of the tuition cost for each camper, with support from foundations and individual donors. Tuition for one week is $495. Tuition and travel scholarships are available to families who require additional financial support. You can give the transformative gift of summer camp to extraordinary kids through private or corporate sponsorship, making it accessible to children who want to attend FACES Camp. For information on how to support FACES Camp, please visit www.facescamp.org.
FACES makes craniofacial surgeries possible for children and adults throughout the United States by providing financial assistance for travel expenses to out-of-town medical centers and supporting families who would otherwise be unable to afford to go.
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Contact: M.E. Sanders, Programs Coordinator WHAT: FACES Camp
Email: mary@faces-cranio.org WHEN: June 15 - 20, 2025
Phone: 423-266-1632 (office) WHERE: Camp Woodmont, Cloudland, GA
FACES website: www.faces-cranio.org CAMP WEBSITE: www.facescamp.org
