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What Is NEPA's Summer In The City?

"NEPA's Summer in the City" is an organization founded in 2022 meant to assist causes in the NEPA region while offering youth leadership development opportunities that combine their outside interests with philanthropy.

Throughout the summer, the SiTC team will be working closely with The Lands At Hilside Farms to fundraise for our Care Farming Services Program (formerly known as Children's Grief Camp) to help disadvantaged youth have a fully-funded, week-long healing experience this summer.

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Education

Summer Farm Camp

Now in its 17th season, we are excited to offer our most enjoyable and educational experiences ever. Summer Farm Camp combines exercise and activities while keeping education challenging and fun. We look forward to welcoming your child(ren) to Hillside's Summer Farm Camp!

Open for students entering grades 1-8 for the 2024 - 2025 school year.

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Green Guides Programs for Vulnerable Youth

Green Guides, an educational, therapeutic program for autistic and other at-risk youth throughout Northeastern Pennsylvania. Specifically, Green Guides provides for a safe, structured, supportive environment that features nature-based programs and activities related to science, math, history, horticulture, animal husbandry, and sustainable agriculture.

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Care Farming

This camp is open to children ages 6 to 14 who have recently experienced the loss of a loved one through illness, accident, homicide or suicide. We also serve children who are in foster care or kinship care due to neglect or abuse as well as children living with family addiction. According to the National Alliance for Grieving Children, those children who suffer a significant loss are at a greater risk for depression, suicide, substance abuse, and poverty.

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