“The YMCA isn’t just a camp. It’s more like a family.” Kory Soto works full time in health care, and needs to rely on year-round child care that transitions her daughter who has a significant learning disability, between school and camp smoothly, while also supporting her emotional and developmental needs. She was in a bubble, but blossomed socially through peer and staff support in the great outdoors at YMCA Camp Zehnder. “If other children who are like my daughter can have the same opportunity to grow and thrive, the world would be a much better place.”

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