Kids Kampus Activity
Center Capital Project
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Kids Kampus Activity Center
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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.
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 1200 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 will also be 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?
The current Kids Kampus
facility lacks an area where its young residents can recreate and/or
receive academic support services. The Reno Rodeo Foundation is
committed to 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 will provide a large indoor area for
structured and unstructured play as well as two smaller rooms that
can be used 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 will benefit 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 will provide a safe, temperature
controlled-area for year-round gross motor activities. Residents
will have a place to socialize and develop a positive sense of
community and family. They will 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 will make the children’s stay at the Kids Kampus
more comfortable and have a positive impact on their overall
well-being.
The Kids Kampus Activity Center will provide 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 will 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.
When will it be completed?
Construction on the Kids
Kampus Activity Center commenced in September 2007. The doors
should be open by late Spring 2008.
How is this project being funded?
Construction of the Kids
Kampus Activity Center would not be 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 are the
Rhythm &
Rawhide Benefit Concert and the Reno Rodeo Invitational Team
Roping, produced by Perry DiLoreto.
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