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Title: Victory Junction Gang Camp
Language: English
Authors: Shell, Ryan
Source: Exceptional Parent. Apr 2007 37(4):86-88.
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Peer Reviewed: N
Page Count: 3
Publication Date: 2007
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: Recreational Activities, Chronic Illness, Child Health, Children, Social Support Groups
ISSN: 0046-9157
Abstract: This article describes the Victory Junction Gang Camp, a not-for-profit, NASCAR-themed camp for children with chronic medical conditions that serves 24 different disease groups. The mission of the camp is to give children life-changing camping experiences that are exciting, fun, and empowering in a safe and medically sound environment. While doing so, the campers get to meet other kids just like themselves, sometimes for the first time in their lives. Victory Junction has seen more than 4,500 campers since its opening in 2004 and is always free of charge. Most people do not realize that Adam Petty is the single most influential aspect of the Victory Junction Gang Camp. To understand that statement, a sequence of events is presented.
Abstractor: ERIC
Entry Date: 2007
Access URL: https://www.eparent.com/
Accession Number: EJ762235
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:This article describes the Victory Junction Gang Camp, a not-for-profit, NASCAR-themed camp for children with chronic medical conditions that serves 24 different disease groups. The mission of the camp is to give children life-changing camping experiences that are exciting, fun, and empowering in a safe and medically sound environment. While doing so, the campers get to meet other kids just like themselves, sometimes for the first time in their lives. Victory Junction has seen more than 4,500 campers since its opening in 2004 and is always free of charge. Most people do not realize that Adam Petty is the single most influential aspect of the Victory Junction Gang Camp. To understand that statement, a sequence of events is presented.
ISSN:0046-9157