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Non-profit helping kids impacted by devastating California wildfires
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1/30/2025
Project:Camp, a non-profit organization, helped kids and their families impacted by the devastating wildfires in Southern California by establishing camps that encouraging play and connections.
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The trauma of the Los Angeles wildfires destroying destroyed homes, schools and communities for
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hundreds of families. Project Camp is a non-profit that creates free pop-up day
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camps to help kids after natural disasters. Mikey Lautner is the founder and executive
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director of Project Camp. Thanks so much for being with us. Thank you. It's good to be here.
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I appreciate it. Mikey, can you explain how and where Project Camp has been helping in the LA area?
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Yes, yeah. Since the disaster hit, we've opened 10 camps across both west and east Los Angeles
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as well as in Santa Barbara for kids who have been impacted by the fire, whether they've been
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evacuated, displaced from their homes, their schools, all over Southern California. And what
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kinds of activities and mental health support does Project Camp volunteers provide the kids?
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At Project Camp, we provide a free trauma-informed day camp for creating a space for kids to be kids
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and allowing parents to do the things that they need to do to navigate emergency services and
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rebuild their lives. So our kids are in activities, sports throughout the day, circle games, really
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taking advantage of the healing, therapeutic power of play to lower their stress and help
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them navigate this difficult period. And what have you seen kids going through
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these weeks? How does Project Camp help parents trying to navigate the disaster?
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The biggest thing that both our kids and our parents are facing is just uncertainty of what's
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next. Our kids were torn from their homes. They don't know if they'll be going back to school,
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where they'll be going back to school. And the same for their parents and school child care.
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There is a central pillar to community, to society, to economy. So parents understanding
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where their kid's going to be in school next has an implication for how they'll be able to get to
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work, where they're going to be living. And so being able to navigate that uncertainty,
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creating the space for them to do so has been really important for our families.
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Now the organization, excuse me, the organization started in California in 2018.
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Were there other disasters, other disasters Project Camp helped children and their families?
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Yes, Project Camp is a national organization. So we've responded to wildfires, hurricanes,
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tornadoes flooding across the country. In California, we responded to the Dixie Fire
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2021, Calder Fire, a few other larger Northern California wildfires. And as climate change
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increases the frequency and severity of disaster, that stuff is becoming ever more frequent and
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ever more severe. You are doing some incredible work. How can people who are watching right now
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listening to this help? Thank you. Yeah, I really appreciate that. For us really being able to
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uplift the need for child care as a part of disaster relief. So our work is free for the
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communities we serve. It's free for all the families that send their kids to camp. And
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we're supported by donors, large and small that make this work possible.
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All right, Mikey Lattner from California Project Camp, helping children out. We thank you so much
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for joining us and all of the things that you're doing. Thank you. It's a pleasure.
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