KyMel, Inc

Goal: To provide campers with a safe, supervised camping environment.

Goal: To provide the medical expertise and close monitoring required by children with a history of
cancer.

Goal: To provide campers opportunities to experience normal camp programs as their medical needs will allow and at no cost to the camper.

Goal: To offer children with cancer opportunities to interact with others who have similar circumstances.

Goal: To provide to the parents whose children attend camp a safe, secure program, and to provide them with all necessary information and support.

Goal: To provide maximum benefits to the children from the donations received.
Outcome Objectives:

In order to meet all of our goals, Camp Hope has a dedicated committee who organizes and plans Camp each year. Camp relies on volunteer staff each year as well to run Camp and we typically have over 100 volunteers. Our committee has members from throughout Kansas and Missouri thus giving us local and statewide access to support and resources. Our strategy is to meet all American Camp Association standards thus ensuring a high level of safety, recruit a fully staffed medical team with nurses, physicians, mental health specialists and pharmacists and to solicit community and individual donors to financially support Camp so that it can remain free to all participants. We also develop key events at camp each year that will help the campers become more independent and to further develop peer relationships. Examples of these include the talent show and teen-only events.

We have a 19 member volunteer committee that helps plan, organize and run Camp Hope each year. Camp has been around since 1983 and in the same general location for over 30 years so we have a lot of community support and resources at our disposal. This has also helped us developed local fundraising partners. We also have over 30 years of participants who continue to support Camp Hope in many ways. Our volunteer committee makes sure we are always meeting accreditation standards, helps recruit new volunteers and continually updates all volunteer policies and procedures.

Camp Hope has been in existence since 1983 and typically has between 65-100 campers attend each year. This past year we had over 20 former campers return to volunteer. Our follow up surveys continue to show that camp is a valuable and life-changing experience for these children. We have maintained American Camp Association accreditation continually since 2002. We would like to expand our services to provide more mid-year activities for these kids as well in addition to the week long summer camp. We started this year and have held 2 events thus far with more planned. We hope such events will strengthen the peer relationships for these children.