Camp ASCCA Blog

Meet the Program Staff 2019: Abbie Simpson

This week we are getting to know our 2019 program staff. Meet Abbie Simpson! Abbie is from Dadeville, Alabama and will be working on our demonstration farm. This is Abbie’s third summer working at Camp ASCCA.

Hall Foundation Camp 2019

On May 20, the annual Hall Foundation Camp began, and campers, volunteers and teachers arrived for the first week-long camp of the summer. The Hall Foundation makes an annual donation that provides the opportunity for groups from Montgomery, Dothan and Florida to attend Camp ASCCA. We are also joined every year by students from the University of North Alabama who volunteer their time as a part of their studies.

Adventure Skills Workshop 2019

The annual Adventure Skills Workshop was held at Camp ASCCA over the weekend by the Shepherd Center. The event held here every year in May is described on the Center’s website as “a fun-filled spring weekend designed for people with spinal cord injury or disease, acquired brain injury, multiple sclerosis, spina bifida, post-polio syndrome, Guillain-Barré syndrome, transverse myelitis or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).”