The Coleman Way

Echoed in everything we say and do

We spend a great deal of time explaining to families how we run our programs. Coleman Family Camps are like no place else. We operate our summer camp in a way that ensures consistently high quality in every aspect of camp life. It’s the combination of the passion of our family, the commitment of our leadership, the training of our staff, and the intentionality of our camp community that makes us unique. You can feel it and breathe it; it is infused in everything we do.

The emphasis we place on values and growth opportunities in a child’s development transforms us into a year-round family in which almost all of our campers return year after year. The Coleman Family of Camps go way beyond the fun of singing, playing, learning, and laughing together. We help our campers to appreciate their own personal strengths and the strong points of those around them.

Acquiring social competencies, gaining responsibility and resilience, and mastering coping skills are all advances that happen at camp. These create the foundation for the positive development of children: feeling successful, making new friends, gaining new skills, getting along better with others, and finding out what one is good at.

As a result of their summers spent with the Coleman family, we know that campers learn to use more positive, specific, and supportable words to describe themselves and to have a more optimistic self-image. We can all reinvent ourselves and be anything (or anyone) we want to be!