Mission Statement: To impact the lives of youth in a positive and lasting fashion via summer camps. With outstanding facilitators and the great outdoors as our classroom, we aim to build better people through better experience, to create conscientious citizens.

Purpose: We purpose to reach out to groups of youth immersing them in new summer camps activities, a new environment. This newness creates a sense of the unknown. The unknown heightens all senses and thus learning experiences are imprinted in a deeper more impacting fashion.  Additionally, this newness, this immersion into the summer camps help to create a slight feeling of "off-balance" allowing the experiences themselves to breakdown bad habits and negative-learned behaviors. The learned behaviors may not support the idea of positive community, self-empowerment & kindness: behaviors and awareness we aim to imbue in our campers. In this environment, always safe and supportive of the individuals psyche, we’ll work to build leadership skills, interpersonal communication skills, self-awareness and a willingness to get to know someone before excluding or chiding. We’ll focus on kindness and offer the type of support and encouragement not found often enough in our day to day lives.

Reason for Purpose: While the world progresses it grows in complexity. While the population increases, and time passes, we can feel as if our place in the world is ominously undefined. We can quickly feel like we're floating in a world without boundaries, are living aimlessly, unimportantly. During our camps we endeavor to reach our youth before they have an opportunity to develop this feeling of isolation, loss. Action Whitewater's summer camps aim to show them how they fit in the world, how they impact the world, as individuals and as a group. We demonstrate life on a grand scale, wildlife both in animal form and the flora and fauna. While challenging their bodies physically by paddling rafts, hiking trails, swimming in the cool river waters, attendees of our camps are introduced to hydrology, watershed education, local flora and fauna, folklore and more: our camps offer experiential education in an organic way, so it's absorbed into our day to day activities feeling natural and not 'forced education time'. We stretch our communication skills learning to meet and work with others in team and individual efforts that may or may not collaborate into a greater group project. Our summer camps introduce campers to people from around the globe who have had different life experiences; these individuals are introduced by means of being the guides and counselors during our summer camps. We want to provide positive, supportive and growing experiences to youth.