Courageous Kids Summer Program
Courageous Kids Summer Program
Where Courageous Kids can make friends and face fears!
Enroll in our Courageous Kids Summer Program to learn CBT strategies to increase self-confidence, tame your anxiety, and live the life you want! This program involves dynamic group learning activities, exciting bravery challenges, and lots of social connection!
The summer program provides a fun and supportive environment where therapeutic counselors will lead all individual and group games that challenge youth to be brave and get out of their comfort zone! Each session is capped at 20 youth to ensure lots of opportunity for participation and connection.
This program is for ages 7-17 years, and based on the success of our inaugural 2023 program, we will offer TWO weeks of summer fun each year.
Summer Dates for 2026
Week 1: June 22–June 26
Week 2: August 17–August 21
Please contact info@cbteam.org for more information.
Summer 2024 Recap
We had so much fun this past summer! Inspired by the release of Inside Out 2, our Courageous Kids spent each day exploring how they can embrace all of their emotions, including anxiety, anger, sadness, disgust, and joy—all while doing individual and group exposures to practice expanding their comfort zones.
Feedback from our 2024 Attendees
- “I learned I am no where close to alone.”
- “I learned I can do anything I set my mind to.”
- “Facing my fears shows me that I can do hard things.”
- “I learned how I can handle my anxiety.”
- “Everyone else was just like me!”
Previous activities include:
- Food fights
- Talent shows
- Fake vomit competition
- Bug and reptile handling
- Scavenger hunts
- Messy projects
- Trust challenges
- Talk show interviews
- Karoke dance party
- Group games on the Nintendo Switch
- Arts and Crafts of many forms
Previous mental health education topics include:
- Normalizing mental health
- Effective emotion regulation
- How to succeed socially
- Anxiety and stress management
- Exposure therapy
- Emotional crisis survival
- Mindfulness
- How to change unhealthy thinking strategies
- Values exploration
Fun prizes available: candy, plush toys, robux, fidgets, electronics, etc.
As mentioned, due to demand we are offering two weeks each summer and look forward to welcoming back many Courageous Kids! We collect data on our attendees and their families before and after treatment using well-researched outcome measures.
Our data shows that youth who participated in 2023 report a 16% reduction in total anxiety symptoms after just one week of treatment!
Feedback from parents and children has been overwhelmingly positive!
78% of youth reported they would like to return (22% “maybe” ; 0% “would not return”)
“We had a wonderful experience and this program was instrumental in helping our son not only extend himself a little more each day but also to connect with other youth.” – Parent of 2023 Attendee
“This was the best summer program our daughter has ever attended. Thank you for this incredible experience. Fantastic staff to child ratio.” – Parent of 2023 Attendee
“Our son really enjoyed the summer program! He’s been taking on new challenges at his other summer camps since then (e.g., ropes course, which he wouldn’t do last year).” – Parent of 2023 Attendee