Camp Rising Sun (Connecticut)

This article is about the camp in Connecticut. For the camp in New York, see Camp Rising Sun (New York).

Camp Rising Sun in Colebrook, Connecticut, is a non-profit overnight camp for children with cancer that is held for one week during the summer and one weekend in the winter.

The camp, which is staffed by volunteer counselors,[1] does not charge campers to attend. It is staffed by a volunteer medical staff, including Dr. Joe McNamara, a pediatric oncologist and an associate clinical professor of pediatrics at the Yale University School of Medicine.[2]

  1. ^ Official Website, "Camp Rising Sun Official Webpage", 2010
  2. ^ "New Haven Register, "Conn.'s Camp Rising Sun Inspires Kids Touched By Cancer", 2010". Archived from the original on 2012-03-27. Retrieved 2011-08-15.