Mission Partners
Children’s Harbor at Lake Martin is thrilled to be a partner and sponsor to so many amazing organizations. For our partner organizations, the Children’s Harbor campus on Lake Martin in Eclectic, Alabama offers a setting for patients and their families to share their experiences and reconnect, often outdoors, in a safe environment for children with health challenges.
Do you know of an organization or illness population that would benefit from our donated facilities? Email us or call (334) 857-2133.
Children’s Harbor is proudly accredited by the American Camp Association. This is the only national accrediting body for all camp types with a focus on health, safety and risk management. Read more about an ACA Accreditation here.
AAPVI – Songs for Sight
Camps for visually impaired children; camps with families. AAPVI (Alabama Association for Parents of Children with Visual Impairments) provides a forum for sharing information, access to experts in the vision field and acts as a support group for our families.
Alabama Hands & Voices
Alabama Hands and Voices is a parent-led, parent-driven nonprofit organization supporting families of deaf and hard of hearing children regardless of community choice for the children.
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Asthma Camp Eagle
This is a day camp geared for children living with asthma. This camp is designed to be empowering for children to help better treat their asthma, be educated on their condition, and create a fun, encouraging community for the children and their families.
Breakthrough T1D
A Children’s Harbor Family Retreat that helps newly diagnosed children with Type 1 diabetes along their Type 1 diabetes journey.
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Camp BRIDGES
Our mission is to provide camps and educational programs at no cost for children, young adults and families living with an organ transplant. We create a fun and educational environment for heart, kidney, liver and lung transplant recipients that encourages positive self image and healthy transplant living. Those served receive and provide peer support and form lasting friendships to better cope with the unique challenges of transplantation.
Camp Conquest
Camp Conquest is a summer camp program designed to respond to the needs of pediatric burn survivors.
Camp Cortisol
Camp Cortisol provides support for families of patients with a rare form of adrenal insufficiency. Children’s Harbor has enabled Camp Cortisol and so many other camps to be a lighthouse to thousands of children.
CPODD
CPODD (Center For Pediatric-Onset Demyelinating Disease) camps provide an extended weekend retreat for children with multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica filled with parent, sibling and patient education, indoor and outdoor events, crafts, games, family interaction and an opportunity for families to make friends with others who are under similar circumstances.
Down Syndrome Alabama – Camp LIFTOFF
Full Life Ahead
Camps for people with multiple disAbilities; camps with families. Full Life Ahead helps people with disabilities live the most independent and productive lives possible by connecting their dream to the resources required to make their dream a reality.
HBDA – Camp Not Clot
Camp for children with hemophilia; camps with and without families. Hemophilia and Bleeding Disorders of Alabama strives to strengthen families and individuals with bleeding disorders through advocacy and educational outreach, while facilitating programs that foster peer support and independence.
Lakeshore Foundation – Camp Strive
A residential camp for children with a physical disability including a visual impairment.
Magic Moments
Camps for children with life threatening illnesses who have received a magic moment. Family Camp provides time for families to relax and spend time together for three days in a stress free environment as well as rekindle relationships with other families and make new friendships.
Rheumatology Family Camp
Children’s Harbor Family Retreat
RhizoKids
RhizoKids advocates and support research for a cure for Rhizomelic Chondrodysplasia Punctata (RCDP). RCDP is a very rare, terminal form of dwarfism that is believed to affect (currently) fewer than 100 people worldwide. This annual camp provides families information and access to the world’s most knowledgeable RCDP doctors.
Sickle Cell – Camp H20
The Hematology team at Children’s of Alabama and UAB Lifespan Comprehensive Sickle Cell Center includes physicians, nurse practitioners, nurses, education specialists, social workers, child life specialists, and other health care professionals dedicated to the care of infants, children, and young adults living with sickle cell anemia. This Children’s Harbor Hybrid Family Retreat gives children with sickle cell disease a special and safe place to have a fun camp experience and provides an environment to promote growth of self-esteem, self-reliance, and creativity. We hope all of the campers learn more about sickle cell disease, coping strategies, and standing up for themselves when they are misunderstood because of their disease.
Camp Sunshine
A Children’s Harbor hybrid family retreat that provides a transformative weekend experience for children and families affected by Spina Bifida. This unique camp fosters connections among families while offering vital educational opportunities aimed at improving health outcomes and fostering greater independence.
Smile-A-Mile
Camps for children battling cancer; camps with and without families. Alabama’s Program for Children with Cancer, serves pediatric oncology patients, survivors and their families by providing avenues for fellowship, support that helps them cope with their disease and tools to help prepare them for life after cancer.
United Ability
United Ability provides innovative services connecting people with disabilities to their communities and empowering individuals to live full and meaningful lives. United Ability envisions a world where disability is neither defining nor limiting.
Vent Kids of Alabama
Vent Kids is a support group for families that have children living at home on ventilators. We coordinate an annual camp for children on ventilators, two caregivers and siblings. ALL activities are optional but offered are: swimming (pool), lake swimming, canoeing, miniature golf, playing on an accessible playground, karaoke, arts and crafts, boat rides and games.
Wired Together
WIRED together is a family camp created for young people with life-affecting heart disease. It is a place where people share similar paths and challenges. Our hope is to use this as an opportunity to encourage, educate, develop new friendships, have fun and enjoy beautiful Lake Martin at Children’s Harbor.
COMMUNITY PARTNERS
In addition to our medical camps, Children’s Harbor is proud to partner with community non-profits who also have a similar mission of serving children. We support the partner organizations below by providing the use of our facilities at significantly reduced rates.
Alabama Sheriffs Youth Ranches
The mission of the Ranches is to provide Christian, family-style residential homes for Alabama’s needy school-age young people in an atmosphere where they may grow spiritually and physically into productive, responsible, and happy adults.
Camp H20 – Sickle Cell
Exceptional Foundation
The Exceptional Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, was established in 1993 to serve individuals with special needs in the Greater Birmingham area by targeting social and recreational objectives not met by educational institutions or the community at large.
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