Let's Build Skills – Teens & Young Adults
Growing Skills • Building Confidence • Creating Community
KennedyStrong Foundation is excited to announce our 2026 Let’s Build Skills Summer Camps, offering multiple weeks across the greater Charlotte area. Our camps are designed to empower friends with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) through skill-building, social connection, and fun, hands-on experiences.
Let’s Build Skills is a pop-up weekly summer camp hosted in multiple Charlotte-area locations. Teens and young adults, age 13-25+ will enjoy a fun, safe environment to continue growing in life skills, social skills, communication, teamwork, and movement.
2026 Camp Locations
Lake Norman Area – Storyhill Church (Davidson)
North Charlotte – Bradford Preparatory School (Concord)
South Charlotte – Phillips Academy
North Cabarrus – Location pending
Camp Weeks
June 8–12 – Bradford Preparatory School
June 15–19 – Storyhill Church
June 22–26 – Phillips Academy
July 6–10 – Location pending
July 13–17 – Storyhill Church
July 20–24 – Bradford Preparatory School
Daily Activities & Experiences
Each day campers will engage in:
- 🎯 Individual life skills focus
- 🎵 Musical interaction and rhythm activities
- 🍎 Food prep & healthy snack creation
- 🍽️ Table Manners & Dinner Conversation practice
- 🎨 Crafts & creative projects
- 🔬 STEM activities
- 🏃 Body movement & group exercise
- 🥘 Thursday Take-Home Sheet Pan Dinner (prepared by campers to share with their families)
Weekly Community Experiences
- 🛒 Grocery store field trip
- 🏢 Weekly Local business tour to explore work environments and job possibilities
- 🎭 Friday Family Expo – Families are invited to celebrate the end of the week with a Live Interactive Variety Show Friday at 2:00-3:00pm, performed by the participants, showcasing their growth, talents, teamwork, and confidence built throughout the week.
Each week the camp is led by local EC educators with years of experience teaching friends with IDD, along with high school volunteers to encourage social interaction and peer connections.
Registration Opens: March 1
Weekly Cost: $295
Let's Build Skills Registration
Fill this out to begin the application process and/or have someone reach out to share more information about our program.
Important Registration Information
Parents are responsible for providing $295 per week for program registration fees and lunch for their individual.
Donations are welcomed and appreciated but not expected to offset these expenses for families.
Families may apply for scholarships.
KennedyStrong Foundation grants one scholarship per week of camp.

