1. General Information

1.01  What is Camp Rosenbaum?

Camp Rosenbaum offers a unique experience to low-income children from Oregon and Southwest Washington. Campers travel by bus to Camp Rilea on the Oregon Coast, just south of Astoria. It’s there that they spend a week experiencing new adventures, making friends and building memories to last a lifetime.

While at Camp Rosenbaum, children enjoy traditional activities like art and science projects, leather crafts, horseback riding and fishing. Kids take trips to the ocean, participate in the sand castle contest and listen to stories around the campfire. While at Camp Rosenbaum we also encourage children to take responsibility for their lives, emphasizing the traits of being a good citizen, staying in school and making good choices. We remind each of our campers that they have the power to shape their future.

1.02  How is Camp Rosenbaum supervised?

We have a one-to-one camper to staff ratio with staff who have decades of experience at Camp Rosenbaum. Camp Rosenbaum is lead by our Camp Director who is a military leader in the Oregon Air National Guard and our Program Director who is the only paid employee while at camp. We also have two head counselors who are volunteers from the Portland Police Bureau who assist group leaders in difficult situations like behavior problems or discrimination.

All of our staff and counselors are volunteers comprised of extraordinary members of our community that work in the Oregon National Guard, local law enforcement agencies to include our partners at the Portland Police Bureau, firefighters, housing authority employees like our partners at Home Forward, and other community volunteers from other local agencies as well as civilian volunteers who were prior civil servants. We’re proud to have a staff full of such amazing inspiration for our campers!

1.03  How are cabins supervised?

The counselor/camper ratio shall be 1:3 whenever possible and will exercise 24-hour supervision over their campers and at least one member of each team shall know the exact whereabouts of each of their assigned campers at all times. Counselors stay with their campers in their assigned bays in the dormitories (Starships). There are two buildings for campers and their counselors, the boys dormitories and the girls dormitories. Your camper will be assigned a bay to which gender they identify with, or if they are nonbinary or gender fluid, whichever bay they feel most comfortable staying in for the week.