BHS RISE Summer Resource List
Summer programs that are geared toward, or known for, supporting of neuro- or ability- divergent high schoolers
Bay Area Programs
Art/Music:
1. Marvegos Fine Arts School (San Mateo)
2. Serra High School (San Mateo)
Outdoors:
1. BOK Ranch (Woodside)
2. Tracker’s Bay (El Cerrito & Oakland)
Sleepaway:
1. Camp Harmon Easter Seals (Santa Cruz Mountains)
2. Camp Krem Camp Unlimited (Boulder Creek)
3. Camp Via West
4. Exceptional Needs Network’s Camp Arroyo (Livermore)
Social/Therapeutic Rec:
1. AbilityPath Social Rec
Day Camps and weekend activities
2. Burlingame Parks and Recreation
3. Friendship Circle of Bay Area (Palo Alto)
4. Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
5. Oshman Family JCC (Palo Alto)
6. Peninsula Jewish Community Center PJCC (Foster City)
7. Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center (San Francisco)
Summer Camp & Year-Round Afterschool and Saturday Program
8. San Francisco Recreation and Parks
Therapeutic Recreation and Inclusion Services
9. City of San Mateo Parks and Recreation
Inclusion Program and Accommodation Requests statement
10. Walnut Creek Arts & Rec
Adaptive and Inclusive Summer Camp
11. Wellspring Camp We Go (Lafayette)
Speech/OT/Therapy:
1. Quest Camp (Danville)
2. Social Thinking (San Jose)
Sports:
1. Exception Sports / E-Sports (Various Locations)
Year-Round E-Soccer, E-Hoops, E-Football, E-Karate, E-Dance, and EFitness programs
2. First Tee Tri-Valley Golf Camps
3. KEEN San Francisco
4. Polo Pathways
Water Polo Lessons by 2 High Schoolers - free for special education students
Other/Academic:
1. Stanford Neurodiversity Project - Research, Education, and Advocacy Camp for High Schoolers
2. UC Berkeley Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP)
Virtual/Online
1. Outschool.com
Outschool.com - various classes/groups
Out of State Options
1. Ascendigo (Colorado)
Lists from Other Organizations (in alphabetical order)
1. CAC for Special Education in Palo Alto Camps
2. Stanford Early Support Program for Autism (EPSA) Summer Camps List
3. Support for Families of Children with Disabilities: Recreational Programs for Kids with Exceptional Needs
4. Undivided: Accessible Summer Camps in the San Francisco Bay area (not yet updated for 2025)
5. Undivided: 2025 Disability-Friendly Sleepaway Camps and Family Weekends in California
Elementary/Middle School Age Only Programs
1. San Francisco Summer Resource Fair
Saturday, February 22, 2025 11am to 2pm at the SF County Fair Building
2. HIVE by Hillsborough Recreation
(Contact Tony at tgiacomazzi@hcsdk8.org to inquire about potential accommodations.)
3. PARCA REACH (San Bruno)
4. Barefoot Occupational Therapy (San Francisco)
5. Bay Area Educational Theater Company (San Mateo)
6. Outdoor Kids Occupational Therapy (Oakland, Berkeley)
7. Camp Soar (Belmont)
8. Embracing Autism Collaborative Services (Oakland)
Summer Camp (already at capacity for 2025)
9. Words in the Wild (Oakland)
10. Inspire Behavioral Learning (Berkeley, Oakland, Cupertino)
Call of the Wild Outdoor Reading, Writing Camps (Summer, Fall & Spring)
11. Chaverim: Inclusion for kids of all abilities - Camp Shalom (Los Gatos)
Camp Chaverim Inclusion Summer Camp
12. Curiodyssey
Summer Camp Inclusion & Accessibility Statement
13. Serra High School (San Mateo)
Middle School Enrichment Camps