FAQ
- Session One will be Sunday, June 8th to Friday, June 13th, 2024, for children and young campers.
- Session Two will be Sunday, June 15th to Friday, June 20th, 2024, for adult campers.
- Civitan International is an association of community service clubs founded in 1917 in Birmingham, Alabama. Civitan aims to build good citizenship through service to community needs with an emphasis on helping those with developmental disabilities. In fact, Civitans were some of the first to provide specific training to teachers of developmentally disabled children.
- Camp Big Heart was founded by members of the Georgia Civitan District, and many generations of civitans and junior civitans have volunteered here over the years. To this day, the Camp’s Board of Directors is exclusively made up of Civitans.
Camp fee is $600 per camper/week, adults and youth.
Camp Big Heart is proud to be one of the most affordable camps of its kind in Georgia and in the Southeast. Incredible community generosity and a devoted staff help us deliver camp at an unbeatable price. If you are concerned about the price of camp, please reach out to us. We may be able to point you toward scholarship opportunities.
- We have a medical team of nurses, nurse practitioners, and physicians who are experienced with working with our camper population. They work out of our on-site medical lodge and there is always someone on call in the medical lodge.
- Our medical staff will store prescribed medications in the medical lodge. Our counselors will bring campers to the medical lodge for their meds as needed.
Our campers range in age from 7 to 60 years.
- Session One is children and young adults.
- Session Two is adults.
Most of our funding comes from camper fees and the Civitan Clubs of Georgia. The rest of the funding to run and improve camp is made possible by donations.
T-shirts will be given to campers at Camp and are included in the cost of attendance. T-shirts from previous years will be sold on the day of arrival.
Please contact our administrator, Donna Hunter. She will be happy to answer any additional questions that you have. Her contact information can be found on our contact page.