Adventure Club & Camp

Discovery + Belonging + Confidence

"The foreigner who resides with you will be as the citizen among you. Love them as yourself, you were once foreigners."

-Leviticus 19: 34

“This is really so special for these kids because, apart from this kind of experience, many of them might spend their first many years in this country only really traveling between their neighborhood, their school, and Walmart.”

-Mrs C (newcomer middle school teacher)

How do you say “that was an amazing day in english?”

-Spanish speaking newcomer youth

Help Make Adventure Camp Happen!

In order to provide 3 days of outdoor exploration, team building exercises and mentored language learning for recent immigrant and refugee youth, SLAQ needs to raise $4,000. You can help us meet that goal in any of 3 ways

Donate Items (goods, service, or experience) for our silent auction at the Shenandoah Christmas Bazaar ($50-$500)
Bid on items at our BetterWorld Silent Auction webpage
Join us Dec 14th for the Shenandoah Christmas Bazaar Fundraiser

Adventure Camp

For three days in the late spring/summer SLAQ hosts the Newcomer Adventure Camp. A long weekend of exploring the Shenandoah National Park, doing fun team building activities, playing nature bingo, and simply connecting together amidst the beauty of the Shenandoah Valley.

Launch Location: Corhaven Retreat Center

2025 Dates: May 24th - 26th

Why:

SLAQ as a non-profit program has the mission of helping youth from diverse backgrounds encounter life as adventure. Towards that goal, in 2023, we began to offer Adventure Club as a program for middle school newcomer youth (recently arrived immigrants and refugees). This program combines outdoor recreation with educational opportunities for language learning, as well as fun community building activities. Through Adventure Club youth are exposed to the beauty of our valley, as their new home, with trusted guides sharing with them why we love where we live in hopes that they will too.

What:

Adventure Club, as an act of hospitality, welcomes newcomer youth to a process of discovery & belonging by combining a variety of outdoor experiences with team building activities, while also facilitating a growing sense of confidence through developing basic outdoor skills.

To make this all happen SLAQ leadership, certified in wilderness first aid, partners with local middle school newcomer teachers to provide a safe and fun environment for nature exploration and language learning.

SLAQ is a ministry of Coracle that offers youth from diverse backgrounds a chance to discover the sacredness of life and the gift of a “good” creation through real-life adventure, service, & wisdom

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To learn more about our parent organization visit inthecoracle.org