National Abandoned Infants Assistance Resource Center : Direct Service Programs : Directory : Camp Heartland

The Source - Spring 2008
This issue focuses on economic self-sufficiency for families affected by HIV and/or substance abuse. More...

Strengthening Connections Conference Archive
This conference highlighted the unique parenting challenges among families affected by substance abuse, HIV and/or incarceration, and the importance of the parent-child relationship in a child’s development. More...

2008 Teleconference Training Series
The Resource Center will host six trainings beginning in April 2008. The topics include the effects of methamphetamine, mental health services for women living with HIV and their children, and working with Latino families. More...

Assessing and Supporting Parenting in Families Affected by Substance Abuse or HIV (2007)
This guidebook provides practitioners and administrators with guidance in assessing, supporting, and strengthening parenting skills and parent-child relationships. [PDF]

National Abandoned Infants
Assistance Resource Center
University of California, Berkeley
1950 Addison Street, Suite 104 # 7402
Berkeley, CA 94720-7402
Phone: (510) 643-8390
Fax: (510) 643-7019
E-mail: aia@berkeley.edu

Camp Heartland
1845 North Farwell Avenue, Suite 310
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Phone: (612) 824-6464
Fax: (414) 272-9916
Email: helpkids@campheartland.org
Website: www.campheartland.org

Project Director
Martha Moriarty

Project Evaluator
TBD

Sponsoring Organization
Camp Heartland Project, Inc.

Camp Heartland’s mission is to enhance the lives of children infected with HIV/AIDS through year-round support, advocacy, recreational programs, and community AIDS awareness efforts. Camp Heartland’s Project has the following objectives: (1) to utilize the evaluative tool created and continue to measure the extent to which the camping program improves participants’ coping abilities, self-esteem and self-efficacy, and enables the development and maintenance of a supportive social network; (2) to continue to assess, update and share materials which will allow other agencies to replicate Camp Heartland’s model program; and (3) to sustain the number of youth served by the Camp Heartland summer camping program at 420 campers.