Exceptional Needs Network

The demands on families of special needs children are tremendous. Exceptional Needs Network (ENN) was founded by parents of special needs children. Our goal is to find novel ways to help families of special needs children in the Tri-Valley region of the San Francisco Bay Area.

We offer camps, conferences, and classroom grants and are always looking for new ways to help meet this vital need in our community.

Camp Arroyo - This summer three sessions are scheduled running back to back from August 1 - 10. Registration material is now available on the Camp Arroyo page.
Session 1: August 1 - August 4 (3 nights) full
Session 2: August 4 - August 7 (3 nights) full
Session 3: August 7 - August 10 (3 nights) full
Registration was held at the Livermore Public Library on March 7, 2009 and the remaining slots have been filled.
The Taylor Family Foundation values our camps and understands the necessity for regional center funding. We will continue to use this process to pay for our counselors for future camps. We are grateful for their support and understanding as we could could not provide camp without this. We look forward to continuing to offer a wonderful summer camp experience for your children!

Counselors - We areschedulign interviews and accepting applications. Please visit the couselors page.

ENN at Facebook - new We have just started a Facebook Group to help give our camper famlies, counselors and teachers a place to network. It is brand new, has just the founding members, and for now, is completely open. Please join and help us build it into a useful forum:
Exceptional Needs Network Facebook Group

Classroom Mini-grants - Thanks to generous support from Par 4 Kids Sake, ENN awarded mini-grants to Bay Area (East Bay) special education teachers in 2008. For more information please visit the Classroom grants page.

Conferences - Please visit the conferences page for information about past ENN events.

For more information about an ENN activity contact:

Kirsten Sprott - Camp Arroyo
Laura McSheffrey - Counselors
Don Bender - Classroom grants
Susan Houghton - Conferences
Mike Kiley - Fundraising

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In Memory of Stuart Smith