Camp Quality
Field of Interest
- Health/wellbeing and medical research
- Individual/family services and support
Target Population
- People with a disability, illness or disease
Camp Quality brings positivity, fun and laughter back into the lives of kids facing cancer. We are there for children and their families, from the heart-breaking news of a cancer diagnosis, through every step of the experience.
We give kids and their families a break from cancer and a chance to reconnect, build resilience and create happy memories together.
– Kids’ Camps, for children diagnosed with cancer and their siblings, are a chance for kids to be kids again and make friends with other children who understand what they’re going through.
– Family Camps enable the whole family to enjoy quality time together, reconnect and build a supportive community with other families facing cancer.
– Family Getaways offer precious time away for families to be together in holiday accommodation, often for the first time since diagnosis.
– Kids Impacted by a Carer’s Cancer (KICC) programs include camps and fun days for children 0-15 years dealing with a parent undergoing cancer treatment.
– Family Fun Days/Family Experiences are one-day events that enable families to create positive memories.
– Virtual Camps are live-streamed, online entertainment experiences, bringing the fun of camp to kids isolated by cancer.
– Hospital Programs at kids’ bedsides support wellbeing and boost resilience
– Child Life Therapists provide medical play techniques that build understanding, resilience and empowerment to help kids cope with the hospital environment. They teach techniques that reduce a child’s anxiety about the procedures they face, decreasing stress and the need for sedation.
– Hospital Puppet Playdates are visits from the lovable Camp Quality Puppets. The puppets bring fun and distraction to children at their hospital bedside, boosting their wellbeing through laughter.
– The Beads of Courage Program, at Sydney Children’s Hospital, Randwick and John Hunter Hospital, provides kids with unique beads to track their courageous cancer story.
Puppet Programs bring laughter and age-appropriate education to kids at school, in hospital and online.
– Our Cancer Education Program visits primary schools and education and care services across Australia. The program helps kids impacted by cancer reintegrate back into school and the broader community by dispelling common cancer myths.
– The Cancer Education Digital Program is also available to schools via streaming platforms.
– Hospital Puppet Playdates are visits from our puppets to kids in hospital, providing therapeutic laughter and fun. Digital Puppet Playdates are online versions of these joyful interactions, live-streamed via a personal device.
– Teacher Resource Packs include a suite of educational resources aligned with the Australian Curriculum, Early Years Learning Framework and state-based curriculums, that continue the age-appropriate cancer education after a Camp Quality Puppet school visit.
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