Camp Journey NW

11/12/2025

Tinker, Marigold, Shipwreck, Ponyo, and Spaghetti made it to Orlando for the COCA Conference! ☀️

We’re excited to spend the week learning from other camps, attending sessions, and collecting new ideas and resources we can bring back home. Our goal is always to make camp even better for our kids and families, and we’re grateful to be here!

We’ll share updates throughout the week. Thanks for following along! 💛

11/06/2025

A great few days learning at the American Camping Association’s Cascadia Conference! We have some great ideas for next year!! And it was a beautiful setting!!

10/24/2025

Camp Journey NW Family: We Need Your Help!!!

We’ve got entries in several categories for the Children’s Oncology Camping Association (COCA) Member’s Choice Awards and your votes are soooo important. Here’s why:

🎗️When our camp wins, it underscores the impact we’re making for kids and teens affected by cancer, and helps raise visibility for our mission. 

🎗️The Member’s Choice categories are weighted by public vote: each single vote matters. 

🎗️A win isn’t just a trophy, it becomes a tool to show to families, donors, volunteers that Camp Journey NW is recognized for creativity, love, connection, and … yeah: magic.

🎗️Because this is about more than one moment, it helps build momentum for more experiences and stronger community next year.

✨ So here’s the ask:
1️⃣ Visit https://cocacamps.org/2025-best-of-coca/
2️⃣ Find our entries (look for titles like “There’s Gnome Place Like Camp Journey NW”, “More Than A Trend: Connection at Camp Journey NW”, etc.)
3️⃣ Click VOTE NOW, enter your email + first name, get the code, verify — done.
4️⃣ Share our page with someone who hasn’t voted yet.

Let’s show everyone what happens when a camp family comes together: one click, one vote, one moment to lift our voices. Until there’s a cure, there’s Camp Journey NW 💚🤎🤍

10/02/2025

✨ The countdown to Camp Journey NW 2026 has officially begun… and YOU get to help us decide the theme! ✨

Every summer, our camp is transformed into a magical world where campers, volunteers, and staff come together to create unforgettable memories. For 2026, we’re down to TWO incredible options:

🎪 Under the Big Top – Step right up to a summer filled with circus fun! Picture colorful tents, playful performers, carnival games, and the wonder of life “under the big top.”

🤠 Wild, Wild, West – Saddle up for a western adventure! Imagine cowboy boots, campfires, line dancing, and wide-open skies where the spirit of the frontier comes alive.

Now it’s up to YOU, our amazing Camp Journey community, to help us choose which theme will set the stage for next year’s magic. 🌟

👉 Cast your vote in the comments:
Will it be 🎟️ Big Top or 🌵 Wild West?

09/22/2025

Every child deserves the chance to just be a kid. That’s why COCA camps exist. Let’s continue to raise awareness for childhood cancer, this month and all year long.

09/14/2025

This is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. There are 500,000 survivors of childhood cancer in America. Cancer treatments may harm the body's organs, tissues, or bones and cause health problems later in life. These health problems are called late effects as a result of surgery, chemotherapy, radiation therapy, and/or stem cell transplant. Late effects in childhood cancer survivors affect the body and mind.

Late effects may affect organs, tissues, body function, growth and development. Other late affects are mood, feelings and actions thinking, learning, and memory as well as social and psychological adjustment. Late effects also have a risk of second cancers. We need safer, more effective cancer therapies without late effects for our children.

https://www.cancer.gov/types/childhood-cancers/late-effects-pdq

09/14/2025