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

1.  Via West

Summer Camp


2.  KEEN San Francisco 

Year-Round Saturday Program


3.  Camp Krem Camp Unlimited (Boulder Creek)

Summer Camp (Yosemite)

Year-Round Program


4.  Camp Harmon Easter Seals (Santa Cruz Mountains)

Summer Camp


5.  Pomeroy Recreation & Rehabilitation Center (San Francisco)

Summer Camp & Year-Round Afterschool and Saturday Program


6.  San Francisco Recreation and Parks

Therapeutic Recreation and Inclusion Services

Inclusion Services FAQ


7.  Burlingame Parks and Recreation

Summer Camps


8.  City of San Mateo Parks and Recreation

Summer Camps

Inclusion Program and Accommodation Requests statement


9.  Exceptional Needs Network’s Camp Arroyo (Livermore)

Summer Camp


10.  Friendship Circle of Bay Area (Palo Alto)

Summer Camp

Sunday Friendship Circles


11.  Tracker’s Bay (El Cerrito & Oakland)

Summer Camp


12.  BOK Ranch (Woodside)

Stable Eq program

Full Inclusion Riding Lessons 


13.  Social Thinking (San Jose) 

Summer Program 

Academic Year Program (8-18)


14.  Quest Camp (Danville) 

Summer Camp 


15.  First Tee Tri-Valley Golf Camps

Summer Camp


16.  Wellspring Camp We Go (Lafayette)

Summer Camp


17.  Stanford Neurodiversity Project - Research, Education, and Advocacy Camp for High Schoolers 

Summer Camp 


18.  Walnut Creek Arts & Rec

Adaptive and Inclusive Summer Camp


19.  Jewish Community Center of San Francisco 

Summer Camp


20.  Peninsula Jewish Community Center PJCC (Foster City)

Camp KEFF


21.  Oshman Family JCC (Palo Alto) 

J Camp


22.  Marvegos Fine Arts School (San Mateo)

Summer Camp & Art Classes


23.  Serra High School (San Mateo)

Murphy Music Camps


24.  Exception Sports / E-Sports (Various Locations)

Year-Round E-Soccer, E-Hoops, E-Football, E-Karate, E-Dance, and EFitness programs


25.  UC Berkeley Academic Talent Development Program ATDP 

Summer Camp




Out of State Options

1.  Ascendigo (Colorado)

Summer Adventure Camp

Winter Adventure Camp



Lists from Other Organizations


1.  Stanford Early Support Program for Autism (EPSA) Summer Camps List 


2.  Support for Families of Children with Disabilities: Recreational Programs for Kids with Exceptional Needs   


3.  CAC for Special Education in Palo Alto Camps


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