Registration is now open for Camp Oasis 2026 summer sessions!  Picture this. There’s a summer breeze. Laughter rings through a mess hall at lunchtime. Across the table is a friend you met only days ago, but you feel like you’ve known t...

 “Camp Oasis is a place where understanding and acceptance meet. It’s a place meant for everyone with IBD to not feel alone in their battle and where you don’t need to explain yourself. You can just be you.”  – Camp Oasis volunteer   Registration is open for Camp Oasis Summer 202...

Winter temperatures are here but families are already beginning to make summer plans for their children. Enrollment for Camp Oasis, our sleepaway camp for kids with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), opens on February 1.     Feedback from campers and their parents has always been o...

  "Our son had such a life-changing time that I wanted to compile all of the pictures into an album for him. He has already made plans to have a rendezvous with his fellow campers during their fall break from school. "– Parent of a Camp Oasis camper.   Arriving at Camp Oasis, ...

Ask adults who have been to summer camp as a child and many will just beam as they tell you it was one of the best experiences of their childhood. Summer camp can broaden horizons, giving kids the chance to grow, make new friends – some of them lifelong – learn new skills, have fun, and become more ...

I was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease at age 20, although I should have been diagnosed many years earlier. My disease progressed quickly, and I had two emergency surgeries and multiple hospital visits in my first year after diagnosis. College was extremely tough for me as I couldn’t seem to find...