Victory Junction enriches the lives of children with serious illnesses and chronic medical conditions by providing life-changing camp experiences that are exciting, fun and empowering; all in a medically-safe environment at no cost to the camper or their family.

Camp experiences also happen beyond our gates through outREACH, Victory Junction’s pediatric patient outreach program. The outREACH team works with hospitals and other community partner sites to enhance and support existing patient and family-centered care with specialized camp-style programming year-round in North and South Carolina, as well as Virginia.

Camp is available to children ages 6 to 16. Our campers have come from all 50 states and around the world. The Victory Junction experience is a welcome break for children who spend a lot of time receiving medical treatments or attending countless hospital visits. Since opening our gates in 2004, we have provided more than 115,00 experiences for campers and their family members during summer and family weekend camps, day programs, and through our outREACH program.

Some medical conditions served:

Creating permanent, measurable, life-changing impact is precisely our goal at Victory Junction. Children and adolescents living with serious medical conditions (our campers) experience challenges related to illness and treatment that can lead to serious stress and psychosocial difficulties.

When kids come to Victory Junction, they laugh, make friends, and have lots of fun, but the benefits of their experience extend well beyond great memories of a week at camp.

Over the last five years the Yale Child Study Center has partnered with SeriousFun Children’s Network (the affiliation group of 9 camps including Victory Junction) to study long term impacts of the residential camp experience on children who attend. Results from both the 2012-2013 and 2013-2014 surveys revealed that after attending a SeriousFun camp, parents and caregivers reported changes in a number of positive attributes in their children, including confidence, independence, self-esteem, and increased interest in social activities. The recently completely 2014-2015 survey of campers and their families saw 66% of parents reporting their child demonstrated an increased interest in social activities following camp, 79% reported noticing increased confidence levels, 77% reported increased self-esteem, and 64% reported an increased sense of belonging.