{"id":798032,"date":"2019-07-26T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T22:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=369226"},"modified":"2019-07-26T16:39:06","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T22:39:06","slug":"breckenridge-outdoor-education-center-joins-with-childrens-hospital-colorado-springs-for-cleft-palate-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/breckenridge-outdoor-education-center-joins-with-childrens-hospital-colorado-springs-for-cleft-palate-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center joins with Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado Springs for cleft palate camp"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"swift-gallery p402_hide\" readability=\"6.7982261640798\">\n<ul id=\"imageGallery-369226-784\" class=\"gallery list-unstyled\">\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BOECCamp-SDN-072719-2-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BOECCamp-SDN-072719-2-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Barry Rubenstein, Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center | Campers and counselors pose for a photo at the Mayflower Gulch trailhead during this week's Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children's Hospital Colorado Springs.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Campers and counselors pose for a photo at the Mayflower Gulch trailhead during this week&#8217;s Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children&#8217;s Hospital Colorado Springs.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Barry Rubenstein, Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BOECCamp-SDN-072719-2-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Campers and counselors pose for a photo at the Mayflower Gulch trailhead during this week's Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children's Hospital Colorado Springs.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BOECCamp-SDN-072719-1-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BOECCamp-SDN-072719-1-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Barry Rubenstein, Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center | Campers and counselors hike during this week's Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children's Hospital Colorado Springs.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Campers and counselors hike during this week&#8217;s Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children&#8217;s Hospital Colorado Springs.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Barry Rubenstein, Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BOECCamp-SDN-072719-1-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Campers and counselors hike during this week's Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children's Hospital Colorado Springs.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BOECCamp-SDN-072719-3-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BOECCamp-SDN-072719-3-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Barry Rubenstein, Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center | A camper hikes during this week's Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children's Hospital Colorado Springs.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-1\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"9\">\n<p><strong>A camper hikes during this week&#8217;s Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children&#8217;s Hospital Colorado Springs.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Barry Rubenstein, Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BOECCamp-SDN-072719-3-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"A camper hikes during this week's Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children's Hospital Colorado Springs.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li data-thumb=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BOECCamp-SDN-072719-150x150.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BOECCamp-SDN-072719-1024x683.jpg\" data-sub-html=\"Courtesy Barry Rubenstein, Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center | Campers and counselors hike during this week's Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children's Hospital Colorado Springs.\" class=\"h-100\" readability=\"-0.5\">\n<div class=\"caption\" readability=\"10\">\n<p><strong>Campers and counselors hike during this week&#8217;s Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children&#8217;s Hospital Colorado Springs.<\/strong><br \/>Courtesy Barry Rubenstein, Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"row no-gutters h-100\">\n<div class=\"col my-auto\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.summitdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2019\/07\/BOECCamp-SDN-072719-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"Campers and counselors hike during this week's Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children's Hospital Colorado Springs.\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"caption-toggle\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/breckenridge-outdoor-education-center-joins-with-childrens-hospital-colorado-springs-for-cleft-palate-camp\/?#\" class=\"show-captions\">Show Captions<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/breckenridge-outdoor-education-center-joins-with-childrens-hospital-colorado-springs-for-cleft-palate-camp\/?#\" class=\"hide-captions\">Hide Captions<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>BRECKENRIDGE \u2014 The Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center hosted its annual Cleft Camp this week, partnering with Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado Springs for the first time.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day camp that ended Friday provides the hospital\u2019s 10- to 18-year-old cleft clinic patients with the chance to take part in the center\u2019s outdoors programming, including hiking, kayaking, canoeing and rock climbing.<\/p>\n<p>Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center executive director Sonya Norris \u2014 who was instrumental in building the camp during her time working for the Children\u2019s Hospital Colorado Foundation \u2014 said the program is pivotal to expanding the potential of campers as well as providing them with an empowering opportunity through meaningful outdoor experiences.<\/p>\n<p>The program is paid for through Outdoor Education Center scholarships and fundraisers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey spend the time all together sharing experiences and talking about their struggles and successes,\u201d Norris said. \u201cAnd they feel the benefit of doing these outdoor activities and how confident and comfortable they can be in this environment. The outdoors experience builds their confidence and helps them to deal with the difficulties they are facing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith whatever kind of challenge they are facing, it shows them they can take on any kind of challenge and shows them that they can accomplish anything,\u201d Norris said. \u201cIt puts them in a position of achieving challenges on ropes courses, the climbing wall, hiking \u2014 all with other kids. They are talking about that in a sharing circle, the successes they have, and that they have the power within themselves to grow in their own lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/breckenridge-outdoor-education-center-joins-with-childrens-hospital-colorado-springs-for-cleft-palate-camp\/?\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campers and counselors pose for a photo at the Mayflower Gulch trailhead during this week&#8217;s Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children&#8217;s Hospital Colorado Springs.Courtesy Barry Rubenstein, Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center Campers and counselors hike during this week&#8217;s Breckenridge Outdoor Education Center cleft palate camp with Children&#8217;s Hospital Colorado Springs.Courtesy Barry Rubenstein, Breckenridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-798032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 11:50:49","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}