Kid's Kampus Activity Center

The Kids Kampus Activity Center is a 12,000 square foot recreation facility for children and teens accessing the residential and non-residential services provided by the entities that comprise the Kids Kampus.

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What is the Kids Kampus?

The Kids Kampus houses the Kids Kottage, the McGee Center for Adolescent Services, and The Children’s Cabinet.

Kids Kottage is protective shelter where police or social workers bring children after they have been removed from their primary care givers, due to suspected abuse, neglect or in a situation where the primary care giver has been incarcerated or hospitalized. These temporary homes are operated 24 hours a day by a private firm, under contract with the Washoe County Department of Social Services. Up to 82 children who range in age from birth to eighteen years are housed at Kids Kottage each day. The average length of stay is 30 days. Over 1,200 children are housed at Kids Kottage annually.

The McGee Center for Adolescent Services provides both residential and non-residential programs for youth identified by the Juvenile Court system or social services to be runaways, delinquent, or at-risk for delinquency. As many as 22 teenagers are in the programs daily and the average stay is three days.

The facility is also utilized by The Children’s Cabinet, the third entity of Kids Kampus. The Children’s Cabinet provides direct support services to families including community education, counseling, literacy, youth mentoring, and child care referral and subsidy programs.

Why did the Reno Rodeo Foundation choose this project?

Until the completion of this project, the Kids Kampus facility lacked an area where its young residents could recreate and/or receive academic support services. Through this project, the Reno Rodeo Foundation is enhancing the physical and emotional well-being of the children living at Kids Kottage and the teenagers at the McGee Center for Adolescent Services by providing a safe, comfortable place where each resident can play, socialize, and learn.

The Kids Kampus Activity Center provides a large indoor area for structured and unstructured play as well as two smaller rooms which are perfect for small group activities and a computer lab.

How does this benefit the community?

Children who are removed from their primary care givers are often under intense physical and emotional strain as they adjust to new surroundings and face an uncertain future. The Kids Kampus Activity Center benefits the community by helping these children to improve their physical, emotional and intellectual well-being; an important investment in the future citizens of our community.

The Kids Kampus Activity Center provides a safe, temperature controlled-area for year-round gross motor activities. Residents have a place to socialize and develop a positive sense of community and family. They also benefit from the opportunity to receive academic support services in quiet, comfortable rooms.

It is our belief that physical activity, social interaction, and the opportunity to learn and play in a space separate from their sleeping quarters makes the children’s stay at the Kids Kampus more comfortable and has a positive impact on their overall well-being.

The Kids Kampus Activity Center provides the additional benefit to the community by serving as an enlarged physical location for the implementation of the services offered through the Children’s Cabinet. The Children’s Cabinet provides access to community education, family counseling, literacy programs, mentoring programs for runaway and homeless youth, early childhood support, respite care, and more.

How many children and teens access this facility each year?

Kids Kottage houses 1,200 children per year, the McGee Center serves up to 22 troubled teenagers each day, and the Children’s Cabinet provides education, counseling, mentoring and care to hundreds of children and families each year.

How was this project funded?

Construction of the Kids Kampus Activity Center would not have been possible without the Reno Rodeo Foundation's valued partnerships with many generous individuals, corporations, small businesses, foundations and, of course, Washoe County.  Additionally, two major sources of funding for this project were the Rhythm & Rawhide Benefit Concert and the Reno Rodeo Invitational Team Roping, produced by Perry Di Loreto.

Kid's Kampus Activity Center Contributors

Reno Rodeo Foundation
Perry Di Loreto
Reno Rodeo Invitational Team Roping 2003-2008 Sponsors and Contestants
Rhythm & Rawhide Benefit Concert
Washoe County
Washoe County Dept. of Social Services
Reno Rodeo Association

John Ben Snow Memorial Trust
Louis J. and Genevieve G. Capurro Family Trust
Rotary Club of Reno
The Bretzlaff Foundation
The Nell J. Redfield Foundation
Charles N. Mathewson Lead Trusts
Robert S. & Dorothy J. Keyser Foundation
Washoe County District Attorney's Office
Allen Capurro
Dan Warren
Leo Legorburu
Blake Smith
May Shelton
Greg "Lightning" Williams
Robert Schwartberg
Roy Adams, Adams & Associates
Anonymous Donors

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