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August: CFLSP Summer Camp 2025

by News and Events

Center for Family Life’s campers had a spectacular summer filled with laughter and adventures! 

This year, a total of 1,618 bright and eager children from grades K-8 immersed themselves in our summer programs. For 5 action-packed days a week throughout July and August, participants were engaged in a diverse array of full-day activities that fueled their growth in social skills, physical fitness, academic exploration, and artistic expression.

Here is a peek at some of the unforgettable highlights from CFLSP Summer Camp 2025! Let’s reminisce on the joy of summer!

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Campers had a blast diving into exciting skill-building activities led by CFL staff! Their curiosity blossomed in the community garden, they fashioned t-shirts in a hands-on tie-dye session, and they channeled their inner entrepreneurs by designing their very own storefronts.

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This summer, all campers took unforgettable trips that blended fun and learning! Campers took to the field for a thrilling behind-the-scenes tour of Citi Field. They got the ultimate baseball fan experience; campers stepped inside the dugout, looked into the exclusive VIP rooms, and even met a player.

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Another highlight was visiting FDNY Engine 201 right here in Sunset Park. Campers loved climbing aboard the fire trucks, exploring the equipment, and trying out the fire extinguishers!

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The Prospect Park Zoo was a site of exploration for many campers. Participants enjoyed meeting the different animals that call the zoo home.

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Olympics are a beloved tradition at CFL Summer Camp! During this week-long event, campers don their team colors and engage in a variety of team-building and cooperative games, fostering fun, friendship, and friendly competition.

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The excitement culminates in an awards ceremony and the symbolic end-of-the-day activity, Tug of Peace.

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As is CFL camp tradition, campers celebrated the end of the season with performances, dazzling family and friends with the skills they developed in dance, music, and acting.

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Summer camp at CFL was once again filled with joy, community-building, and lasting memories.

The parent of one camper remarked that their child “came home every day excited, full of new stories and learning experiences that have clearly motivated her to keep exploring and growing”.

We are deeply grateful to the staff, families, and community partners who made this summer truly special!

If you would like to support the Center for Family Life and this kind of programming, please consider making a donation today.

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August: Summer Camp in Sunset Park!

by News and EventsYouth and Community Development & School Partnerships

This month, our newsletter highlights the action-packed days of our CFLSP summer camp programs. We are thrilled that this summer, we served a total of 1,814 children from Kindergarten through 8th grade! Our full-day, 5 day per week camps ran in July and August and engaged children in a diverse range of activities that promoted social, physical, academic and artistic development and provided opportunities to practice and master skills while having fun and building community.

Here are some of this summer’s highlights!

Campers engaged in many hands-on art projects led by CFL Arts Specialists. For one project at our PS 1 camp called “A Summer Souvenir”, campers fostered creativity by designing unique and colorful friendship bracelets, that will be a token by which they can remember a fun-filled summer.

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All CFL camps take weekly field trips to museums, parks, and other cultural, recreational and educational sites throughout NYC. Above, campers from PS 516 visit the American Museum of Natural History.

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Four groups of campers from PS 169 traveled to Brooklyn Urban Garden School (BUGS) twice per week to tend the outdoor gardens and harvest produce from the hydroponics lab. Campers created their own herb satchels, sampled indoor and outdoor grown cucumbers, learned how to weigh produce, and took home fresh vegetables to their families! This fun and engaging project taught campers sustainable urban food growing practices in a hands-on, delicious and nutritious way.

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A highlight of our camp program is our annual summer Olympics. With the goals of promoting sportsmanship and building community, campers engaged in healthy competition through water relays, classic field games, sports, obstacle courses and more.

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Campers also explored their creativity in dance, music, acting, and visual arts activities with culminating performances delighting family and community members! Above, the PS 516 campers perform in an original show entitled “CFL through the Decades.”

In addition to our summer camp participants, we are thrilled that 397 young people gained paid work experience as SYEP camp counselors through the NYC DYCD Summer Youth Employment Program.

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With love from all of us at Center for Family Life in Sunset Park
to everyone who made this a most magical and memorable summer!

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August: Summer Camp in Sunset Park!

by News and EventsYouth and Community Development & School Partnerships

This month, our newsletter highlights the action-packed days of our CFLSP summer camp programs. These programs run full day, 5 days a week in July and August and include field trips to museums, pools, parks, and other sites throughout NYC. Our summer camps engage children in consistent group and community-building activities that promote social, physical, academic and artistic development and offer a diverse range of activities that provide opportunities for children to practice and master skills while having fun.

Here are some of this summer’s highlights!

Students took a trip to the Brooklyn Botanic Garden where they adventured beyond urban life to explore the garden’s rich vegetation and blossoming flowers. These PS 169 campers pictured on the right expanded their knowledge of plants as they observed different trees and flowers during a scavenger hunt throughout the garden.

Summer campers at PS 94 were busy restoring a garden space which had fallen into disrepair after the pandemic and an extended construction project. STEAM specialist, Margaret Wang, and a group of participants got to work planting sunflowers they grew from seeds, along with flowers, green, and tomato and squash plants. This gardening project taught campers how continuous hard work and patience can transform a space into something beautiful and prosperous.

A highlight of our camp program is our summer Olympics, an annual tradition that excites campers and staff. With the goal of promoting sportsmanship and building community across the program, campers were divided into teams and engaged in healthy competition through water challenges, classic field games, sports, obstacle courses and more.

The summer Olympics at PS 503/506 ended with a team-building feat of strength and perseverance as campers “pulled together” in a friendly tug-of-war.

Campers also had the opportunity to explore their creativity in a variety of media, dance, music, acting, and visual arts. Culminating performances delighted family and community members who were proud of the skill development and stage presence of the large cast of performers.

We are thrilled that this summer we served a total of 1,501 children in our summer camp programming!

In addition, 356 young people gained paid work experience as SYEP camp counselors through the NYC DYCD Summer Youth Employment Program. These talented SYEPs worked alongside our dedicated year-round staff to provide enriching activities for children that built essential skills and contributed to our strong and vibrant community here in Sunset Park.

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With love from all of us at Center for Family Life in Sunset Park to everyone who made this a most magical and memorable summer!