My youngest daughter(9year old) went there this year for the 3rd year in a row. She and I both LOVE this camp and the people who run it. She learns valuable lessons and has a great time doing it. She actually told me that she wants to always go to CHH and be a counselor when she’s older(like her older sister). I couldn’t recommend this camp more highly!
Frank J.
Rating des Ortes: 5 Thousand Oaks, CA
All I need to say is another great year! Everyone is wonderful and the kids can’t wait for it every year, they were sad to see it end. See you guys next year!!!
Karis B.
Rating des Ortes: 5 Thousand Oaks, CA
This is the camp you have been looking for — a character building camp with a focus on giving and being a good person. Each of the 3 weeks is a different focus: environment, animals and helping people. My son has attended 3 years now. The staff are very well trained and the entire organization is organized and responsive. We attend on CLU campus and it is such a great atmosphere. Meredith, the owner and founder, is simply the best and a very cool, involved, socially minded individual. Very blessed to give this opportunity to my son.
Jennifer K.
Rating des Ortes: 5 Oak Park, CA
Our favorite camp of all time! Both of my kids LOVE it! They are sad every year when it ends. AND, they even like it much more than the expensive adventure camps that they have tried. All this, and they are learning to give back to their community. Each week it’s a different focus, and all three are a huge hit. Last year they made instruments for kids with disabilities and played with them, they helped to start a community garden, and during animal week they learned about reptiles. Huge success!
Jeannie G.
Rating des Ortes: 5 Los Angeles, CA
What an amazing camp! All the kids I know who go there have a new experience every year. With such amazing counselors and staff, CHH is really a unique place for kids ages– 6−14…The CHH family really does become one as a whole, as each camper returns year after year. Older siblings seem to bring their younger sibling when they are old enough as well. This camp is suitable for all types of kids, as they all bring different personalities! A wonderful camp– it is expanding too!
Jessica M.
Rating des Ortes: 5 Thousand Oaks, CA
Our 9yr old son attended camp for the first time at Camp Helping Hands and had a wonderful week. Not only did the counselors greet him with a warm spirit, but they went out of their way to say good bye as he left the first day. This kind of connection is what I was hoping for so that my son would feel safe and secure at camp for the first time. The focus for the week was on people with disabilities, which can be a very deep subject. From my son’s feedback, he felt informed about how to be respectful to kids with disabilities and enlightened about how all people really are quite similar on the inside. This camp did an incredible job at bringing very important concepts to life in a beautiful way-a true gift our son will have for life!
Jennifer B.
Rating des Ortes: 5 Thousand Oaks, CA
This was our second year of camp and I can say without any reservations that this is the best camp experience for young people in all of Conejo Valley! The program introduces many valuable life lessons and instills a delight in helping others with such joy and enthusiasm. The founders, counselors, campers, and families are all so warm and caring that you feel sad to say goodbye each August. My 7 year old and his friends can’t wait for the program each summer and come home every night with fabulous stories, lessons, and experiments for the whole family to enjoy. The only complaint? It’s only 3 weeks every year!
A N.
Rating des Ortes: 5 Thousand Oaks, CA
My daughter did the full 3-week session of Camp Helping Hands this summer and loved it! Who would have thought that a camp could make waste-water management and beach clean-up into fun fieldtrips? She also adored visiting and learning about local senior citizen centers — cannot wait until she is old enough to volunteer at one. And, the final week on animals — therapeutic horse facility and farm for abused/neglected animals — really touched her heart. This is a fabulous camp to send your child to if you want her/him to grow up and be a person who makes the world a better place.