Cape Cod Sea Camps Brochure | Overnight Camp

CAPE COD SEA CAMPS

Overnight Camp ESTABLISHED 1922

Best Summer Ever | Brewster, Massachusetts

Dear Friends,

Welcome to Cape Cod Sea Camps! “... between meeting new friends and trying new activities, this has been my best summer ever!”

- Molly age 12

Each season we build an extraordinary summer community on the shores of Cape Cod Bay. As soon as your camper arrives, the fun and adventure begins, promising magical moments and lifelong memories.

As you make this very important decision about a summer experience for your child, we hope you will consider the advantages of a traditional camp program where safety is a hallmark of our organization, fun is around every corner, and educational values are taught each day. While having fun and learning with an experienced mature group of staff in a variety of actvities, the opportunity to gain life skills and build character is incomparable. Making a friend, sharing a sunset walk on the beach, helping with chores, joining a team, leading a song or comforting a fellow camper are constructive principles reinforced daily.

For nearly a century, my family has welcomed generations of campers, and is committed to providing the “Best Summer Ever” to each member of our distinct community. We look forward to having you join us and becoming a member of our CCSC family. “…..even when subtle, each moment spent at CCSC was meaningful and will not be forgotten.” - Matt age 15

Nancy W. Garran Executive Director

HISTORY

MISSION

The Cape Cod Sea Camps were founded in 1922 by Robert and Emma Delahanty. Continuing with the same underlying philosophy established by her grandparents, Executive Director Nancy Garran charts a future course for the camp programs and welcomes multiple generations of campers and parents each summer.

Through personal commitment and dedication to the development and guidance of youth, Cape Cod Sea Camps will provide a unique educational environment in which children and teens have fun and realize their worth and potential.

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RESPONSIBILITY

Taking good care of the children is the most important thing we do.

Tradition, Leadership, Excellence

That’s why we maintain a 1-3 ratio of seasoned, experienced, senior staff to train, guide, and support our cabin counselors and activity instructors. First and foremost, counselors are screened and hired based on their ability to serve as positive role models for the campers.

A rigorous staff orientation week focuses on the health and safety of the children, counseling and teaching skills, the CCSC philosophy, and building community. All staff members undergo official, state-mandated background checks prior to beginning work.

Our four year Teen Leadership Program is a goal-oriented, requirement-based leadership course, helping young men and women attain the skills and motivation to be highly successful camp counselors and, moreover, leaders and role models at camp and in the communities and schools to which they return. All Teen Leaders must attend the full seven week season.

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At camp I learned...

The importance of being independent and trying many new activities. - Adam, 10

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FRIENDSHIP

By the Bay, the best ship is friendship.

Camp is a multi-generational, multi-cultural experience. Community members range in age from 8 to 75. Making friends is an essential part of each camper’s connection to our community and enjoyment of the CCSC experience. Our counselors are trained to help each child succeed socially, and the staff works hard to ensure that new campers feel comfortable in their away-from-home surroundings as quickly as possible. Veteran campers demonstrate their CCSC pride by mentoring our first time campers.

Children are grouped in units by age and grade. These units facilitate small group interaction with many opportunities to eat meals together, sing songs around campfires while cooking s’mores, and enjoying evening activities.

With the exception of team sports, most activities and all camp special events will have a variety of campers from youngest to oldest enhancing the family atmosphere.

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At camp I learned...

How to be a better sailor, love archery, and be more confident in a new place. - Rachel, 10

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EXPLORATION

Explore the flats at low tide, make a friend, ride the waves, throw a pot, serve an ace, score a goal, set a spinnaker, build a chair, drop a ski, try something new, and make the unknown familiar.

The reward is finding out that you can succeed in making new friends, learning new activity skills, adjusting to group living situations cabins, and making it on your own. Camp is an intensive course in group dynamics of activities and cabin life combined with moments of watching-the-sun-set solitude and reflection.

The gift of camp is the opportunity to expand and explore horizons in a carefully supervised environment. It is both an individual and a group experience in a supportive atmosphere. The challenge is to function in a new setting with new people, new activities, and new structure.

A great summer at a great camp is a gift for life.

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At camp I learned...

An experience with a bunch of kids you didn’t know at first can change your life. - Zach, 12

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INDEPENDENCE

“I Can and I Will,” the camp motto, encourages all campers and counselors to put forth their best effort every day, to “make it a good one,” contribute positively to the community and set and accomplish goals.

Our goals for each camper’s experience relate to Independence, Exploration, Respect, Self-Confidence, and Self-Reliance.

The feeling of accomplishment at having mastered a new situation is a source of pride forever and a great building block for other goals. The CCSC core values respect, open-mindedness, community, kindness and sportsmanship are addressed on a daily basis through morning assembly talks, cabin/unit meetings and activities.

Going away to camp is a big step for any age child. It is important that they want to try the experience. Familiar support of family and hometown friends is carefully supplanted by caring, engaging staff and new peer groups to create a comfort zone from which new experiences dare to be tried.

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At camp I learned...

Having differences is a great opportunity to embrace them and be kind to everyone. - Claire, 13

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COMMUNITY

It Takes a Village...

We work hard to create a community in which all of our campers and staff feel welcome, supported, and safe... physically and emotionally! Making children feel at home means making camp more than cabins, basketballs and boats. Camp is about people living with, and caring for, each other. CCSC communities have always been caring ones in which all members feel safe and are able to express themselves through words and actions without fear of failure or ridicule.

For more than ninety five years, creating safe communities has guided us as we seek to provide for children the type of educational experiences that will be remembered as much for their enjoyment as for their intrinsic learning value. CCSC includes children of different ages coming from different cultures and different family, school and life experiences. Their differences- and likenesses- will guide us in creating a sense of community within which they can fully absorb the magic of learning that makes camp... well , camp.

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FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT

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3057 Main Street | PO Box 1880 Brewster, MA 02631 (508) 896.3451 (508) 896.8272 Fax

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This camp must comply with regulations of the Massachusetts Department of Public Health (105 CMR 430.000), and be licensed by the Brewster Board of Health. Information on 105 CMR 430.000 can be obtained at (617) 896-6761.