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YMCA Camp Forbing Sponsor Program
Would you like to sponsor YMCA Camp Forbing?
Through this sponsor program you can help continue to increase the number of scholarships the YMCA provides for programs, you can help keep the fee for summer day camp down, you can help continue to improve the camp and you can help start new programs at Camp Forbing.

Check out the different levels of support you or your company can choose from:

• Community Builder $5,000 +
  
  • name listed on website
  • name listed in all camp brochures
  • name listed in camp newsletter
  • name listed on sponsor banner
  • name on day camp t-shirts
  • name on day camp water bottles
  • name on sponsor permanent sign

• Community Leader $2,500 - $4,999
  
  • name listed on website
  • name listed in all camp brochures
  • name listed in camp newsletter
  • name listed on sponsor banner
  • name on day camp t-shirts

• Community Partner $500 - $2,499
  
  • name listed on website
  • name listed in all camp brochures
  • name listed in camp newsletter
  • name listed on sponsor banner

To become a YMCA Camp Forbing Sponsor contact Sabra Hicks, Camp Director. (318) 674-9645 or sabrah@ymcanwla.org.

Camp Forbing Programs

• Summer Day Camp: Summer Camp is offered 10 weeks during the summer for children 4-13 years old. Providing outdoor activities such as: sports, arts & crafts, swimming, canoing, theme days, archery, and challenge course.

2009 Day Camp stats: 1,350 campers, 333 campers on scholarship, $14,736 awarded in scholarships

• Adventure Guides: A father/son or father/daughter program for kids in K5-5th grade. Providing activities and camp outings that encourage and strengthen parent/child bonding.

• Trim Kids: This is a healthy lifestyle program for children who are obese and at risk of being obese. Parents participate along side their child and learn the three areas of fitness, behavior and nutrition.

• Adventure Challenge Course: The challenge course consists of a combination of low and high elements used to develop relationship building, increase self esteem, enhance community and group awareness and FUN.

• Community Garden: A member of the Red River Coalition of Community Gardeners we believe that community gardens are focal points of neighborhoods where the seeds for healthy family and communities can be planted and nourished. Thirty-two plots serve and educate children, families, charities schools and churches.