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5851 Horseshoe Road, Orefield, PA

Purpose

     In today’s society, we often measure progress in buildings constructed or dollars made.  However, the ultimate value of any project we undertake at Valley Youth House is measured in “lives changed”.  This creed was the primary purpose of launching such an ambitious Capital Campaign to fund the Camp and we believe that countless lives will be changed for the better as a result.

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Project Development

Achieving our vision of developing Camp Fowler into a center for excellence in therapeutic recreation and adventure therapy is well on the way to becoming an exciting reality for the children and youth of the Lehigh Valley.

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Camp Activities in 2006

     Although our use of the camp is constrained until our construction projects are completed, Camp Fowler was a very exciting place to be in 2006. Our counselors and therapists made active use of the camp for hiking, fishing, adventure therapy, and group activities.  A total of 450 different children made use of the camp over the course of the year.

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Community Group Outreach

     As a first step in our commitment to make the camp available to other community groups that serve at-risk children, sixty-five developmentally challenged children from the Carbon-Lehigh Intermediate Unit attended Camp Fowler for five weeks.

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Capital Campaign Progress

2006 saw considerable progress in developing the funding required for the physical development of the camp and to assure its long-term financial stability.  In July we increased our campaign goal from $5.5 million to $6 million.  The additional funding was required because of rising construction costs and because new program opportunities required modest enhancements of the scope of the project.

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