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Family Camp Access and Support for the Whole Family

Ask what each household member needs to take part, then check rooms, meals, care and activities together. Explain support and limits before arrival. One person's needs should not make the rest of the family's experience disappear from the plan.

Ask each family what would help them participate. A household may need several different adaptations, and one person's needs should not erase another's experience.

Provide factual access information about paths, rooms, bathrooms, seating, noise, lighting, meals, and activities. Do not describe a whole site as accessible based only on one ramp.

Offer instructions through speech, demonstration, readable text, and simple visual plans where useful. Avoid making colour the only way to identify a group or location.

Create low-sensory and lower-demand choices with clear supervision. A quiet space should not become a place where families are forgotten or excluded from the program.

Check applicable accessibility duties and relevant exceptions with qualified advice. The U.S. public-business guidance is one starting point, not a universal answer for every camp.1

Budget support and discuss constraints early. Do not promise an accommodation that the venue or team cannot deliver, but do not reject a household without understanding the actual need.

Your task: Map the experience of each member of a sample household, not just the main booking adult.

Sources for this page

  1. U.S. Department of Justice, Businesses that are open to the public. U.S. Title III overview, including scope and exceptions. Other laws may also apply. ↩

Put this chapter to work

Optional · Putting your plan into practice

Using Bookify for this goal

This part starts with your own planning and judgement. Use the guide and its worksheets to work through it with your team.

When you are ready to put your camp plan into a booking system, you can explore a sample camp in Bookify or see what the software can help you do.