From 1993 to present day, Camp Heartland has provided fun, exciting and progressive camp experiences to kids living with or affected by HIV/AIDS. Our One Heartland Center in Willow River, Minnesota is filled with diverse activities and an amazing community of people, camping offers the opportunity for personal growth, social development and good old-fashioned fun. The combination of a superb and unique camping program and many amazing campers has created one of the most respected camping programs for children with special needs.

In 2007, One Heartland began operating Birch Family Camp, a program for entire families affected by HIV/AIDS from New York City.  In August, over 100 families attend Birch Camp and, while kids experience a traditional summer camp, parents learn important life skills as well as meet and bond with others dealing with similar challenges. 

One Heartland has partnered with Minneapolis based shelters People Serving People and Mary's Place to provide a week of summer camp to children and youth in transitional housing.  For a week, campers can forget their troubles and can just have fun while parents can spend  time free of childcare duties to search for jobs or housing.

Offered for the first time this year during our July camping session, in partnership with Park Nicollet Health Systems of Minneapolis, Camp Willow is dedicated to serving children, youth and their families diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes. The program focuses on educating children and their parents diagnosed with Type 2 Diabetes on ways of improving their health and managing their diabetes, using our family camping model.

Camp Camp Revolution is a partnership between One Heartland and eight GLBTQ serving agencies working with youth ages 14-22 that identify as GLBTQ. The program is being built on the youth leader development model where the youth participants will brainstorm, decide and plan the programming to be delivered.  The purpose of the program is to build supportive communities for GLBTQ youth.  All of the participating agencies hope to hear from the youth about what resources, programs, atmosphere, spaces, or any other items they see as issues facing their community and most importantly how both youth and professionals can work together to address these issues.

The Annual oneFutures Youth Retreat & Conference invites youth ages 16 to 22 impacted by HIV/AIDS to attend a long weekend of life skills training.  During the weekend, participants are paired with a mentor who helps him or her to create goals.  Throughout the year mentors are there to ensure that the goals are met through regular communication.  oneFutures helps youth graduating out of One Heartland's traditional camping sessions to utilize the community that has been created at Camp over the years in order to develop into responsible adults.