Saddle Up AHS Warrior Week Hoops for Hope Donor Corner Early Start Success SPRING 2014 – pg. 2 – – pg. 2 – – pg. 3 – – pg. 4 – – pg. 5 – POTENTIALS po•ten•tial: adj. Having possibility, capability, or power. Building Potentials Campaign As Adam’s Camp continues to look to the future, we find many of the hopes and dreams we have for our organization coming true! Our goal is to serve all campers and families who have a desire to benefit from the programs we offer, and one way we are accomplishing this is by assisting others 2014 BOARD OF across the US in starting Adam’s Camp in their communities. Another vision we have is to continually improve our programs here in Colorado. Several DIRECTORS factors have come together making it clear that the best way we can do this is to create a new building ~ ~ ~ at Snow Mountain Ranch along with our partner there, the YMCA of the Rockies. Some of these factors are: Bill Harmon, President • As a result of more stringent licensing guidelines, we have an immediate need for a commercial kitchen for meal preparation. This need is urgent but will also help to assure the future of our Brian Simms, Vice Pres. Adventure Camp programs. • Two therapy teams will use this new space right away, allowing for improved access to experts, colleagues and equipment. A huge added bonus is that having our therapy provided in a space Clay Waller, Treasurer separate from other YMCA programming and away from traffic will be safer for our children. • This new therapy space is in addition to that which we already use so the potential for growing our Jennifer Roitz, Secretary therapy programs will exist in the future as a result of this added space. • The new building will bring our facilities closer to each other so we can create a stronger sense of Jim Brennan community. Two years ago, we created a gathering place between our therapy building, Adam’s Camp Summit, and the reunion cabins where the older Adventure Campers stay. So with this new building, our therapy programs, gathering space, sibling program, playgrounds and Adventure Jane Buckley camp groups will all be in the same area of Snow Mountain Ranch. Pat Colip It all adds up to BUILDING POTENTIALS, our second major campaign to fund a significant enhancement to the Adam’s Camp site. Jeff DePasse Adam’s Camp is about strengthening kids with special needs by strengthening their families and community. This campaign will allow us to build OUR community by bringing our programs closer Kim Kelleher together to encourage support, collaboration and fellowship between our campers and families. For more information about this campaign or to help us with BUILDING POTENTIALS, contact Karel Horney at [email protected] or 303-563-8290 x11. Nancy Lataitis, MD Sharon Link Kellie Newland Bill Plummer Cindy Wells Pg 1 Saddle Up Winter Weekend Rocks Fourteen campers couldn’t Our inaugural Winter Weekend Reunion brought 25 help but say “yeee-haw” about hearty campers to Snow Mountain Ranch to experience the their campout at the new Saddle amazing winter activities our home away from home has to Up! Facility in Parker the last offer. Tubing, ice skating, snowshoeing and a sleigh ride weekend in April. Saturday started were the featured activities that kept our campers busy with a tour of the stables and some when they weren’t having lessons in grooming and ended snowball fights! As always, with a great barbecue dinner the weekend culminated with straight from Hickory House. The a dance and lots of high fives. Saddle Up staff planned a full Gotta love those reunions! evening of games that included roping, horseshoe toss, basketball, croquet and a late night game of duck-duck-goose that lasted well past scheduled bed-time! The night wouldn’t have been complete without s’mores though. After a night of tent camping, the group was split into three smaller groups and each one took about an hour at each of the three stations - stall cleanup and saddle polishing, barrel tricks and races, and horseback riding! While on the horse, each camper got to go through an obstacle course, trot away as ‘horse robbers’ or ‘sheriffs’ and deliver mail for the handlers. Not a bad way to fill a weekend, Adam’s Camp’s way. AHS Warrior Week Highlights Students for Adam’s Camp We couldn’t be more thrilled to have partnered with Arapahoe High School for the second year as recipients of the funds the students raised through Warrior Week. This week of school unity, particularly special this year in light of the tragedy in December, is a truly special opportunity for us to see some amazing teenagers in action as they collect money, organize events, and volunteer ~ all to support a nonprofit organization. On Monday, campers Abby Frary, Alexander Roitz, Eli Cohen, Will Harmon, Bobby Wright, Dmitri Yavich, and Gina Rea joined us at a concert featuring the talented CU Buffoons, a men’s acapella group. On Wednesday, our campers were invited to participate in a basketball game pitting the seniors against the staff. Campers Will Harmon, Ian Brennan, Claire Kemp, Marissa Powers, Peter Naffah, Amanda Leonard and Jake Whitney played their hearts out in the seniors’ win against the staff. Thanks so much to Advisors Jeff Brandberg and Lauren Lee and the Student Council for working so hard to raise over $12,000 for Adam’s Camp! Pg 2 Volunteers: Jamie & Hannah Bailey Staff: Sarah Hartway Jamie and her family have jumped into Since Sarah joined our staff Adam’s Camp with both feet! Jamie works in 2012 as our Director of with Adam’s Camp Advocates and co-chaired Development and Commu- our spring event, Hoops for Hope, this spring. nications, we have seen con- Daughter Hannah has volunteered with sistent growth in our fund- Adam’s Camp for 3 years, and is on her way to raising income and exposure Alaska as a volunteer for the second summer. in the community! Thanks, She is an Advocate also, and championed Sarah, for your creativity Adam’s Camp for Arapahoe High School’s and initiative. You are a Warrior Week. Thanks, Baileys! great member of the team! Donor: Partners in Pediatrics Family: The Veldkamp Family For 28 years, Partners in Pediatrics has walked along side Derek and his family are a great presence Adam’s Camp by sponsoring our Spring Event, supporting at Adam’s Camp. Derek participates in a our annual recognition dinner, volunteering at events number of our Adventure Camp programs and spreading the word as well as our Hoops for Hope spring about Adam’s Camp to the event. Jim Veldkamp is a regular at our community. We couldn’t be Golf Tournament, and Jim and Linda are more grateful for this very faithful attendees of our recognition dinner special partnership – thanks in November. Couldn’t feel more supported PIP! by this special family! Hoops for Hope 2014 Thanks to our title sponsors, the Hauserman family, Adam’s Camp and Partners in Pediatrics were able to hold Hoops for Hope again in 2014! This one-of-a-kind event held on Sunday, April 13, 2014 at Cherry Creek High School featured the Can Do Cougars against the No Limits Lions all in support of the children and families of Adam’s Camp. The teams were made up of celebrities such as former Denver Nuggets, Earl Boykins, Walter Davis and Bill Hanzlik, CBS4 News anchor Jim Benemann, and 7News’ Theresa Marchetta, the crew from Partners in Pediatrics, supporters of Adam’s Camp and some very special campers. Guests got to see some great basketball but even greater entertainment including a performance by Biff Gore of NBC’s, The Voice. Together, we raised over $65,000 but that’s not the only amazing thing that happened. Our second year of Hoops for Hope was a wonderful celebration of all that Adam’s Camp values: children, families, teamwork, fun and hope. Our campers played side by side with former professional athletes. Cheerleaders and dancers with special needs gave it their all as did Biff Gore. Everybody came together demonstrating what we can do when we focus on realizing potentials and developing strengths. A big thank you goes to our partners in hosting an annual spring family event for over 20 years, Partners in Pediatrics as well as to all of our sponsors, donors, players and guests. Thank you to Christina Hinkle, Nick Owens, Blake Olson, Bret Saunders and the Peak Athletics Cheer Stars and Dance Stars for all you did to entertain and inspire our guests. Thank you to Chris McLaughlin of CMP Photography for your amazing photography of this event. Pg 3 We appreciate all of our partners who provide support to the special children and families of Adam’s Camp, helping them to realize potentials and develop strengths. For their most recent contributions (October 2013 – March 2014), we give our sincere thanks to: FOUNDATIONS: Anschutz Family Foundation Janus Foundation T. Rowe Foundation AV Hunter Trust JK Mullen Foundation UBS Wealth Management Community First Foundation Mile High United Way Employee Giving Programs Daniels Fund Palisade Fund Wells Fargo Bank Foundation Eleven Eleven Foundation Patrick Thomas McKee Foundation Western Union Foundation Enterprise Holdings Foundation Professional Miracles Foundation Weyerhaeuser Giving Fund Ginny’s Kids International, Inc. Reel Family Foundation Inc. Your Cause Sports COMMUNITY AND CORPORATE SPONSORS AND DONORS: Advanced Ear, Nose & Throat Consignment Mad Greens Rocky Mountain Pediatric Surgery Allergy & Asthma Care and Cell Point Chris McLaughlin, CPM Studios RV World Prevention Center Cherry Creek High School Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Schaus and Associates Allstate Giving Campaign Children’s Dentistry of Cherry Creek New West Physicians Sky Ridge Medical Center American Express Employee Colorado Allergy and Asthma Center Oracle Corporation Sons of American Legion #161 Giving Program Colorado Kids Pediatric Dentistry Papa John’s Pizza The Kroger Co Anchor Center for Blind Children DaVita Partners in Pediatrics Triton Properties, Inc .