Haven House International arts and entrepreneurship summer day camp is a fun and affordable summer camp that educates, encourages, and inspires youth through developmentally appropriate activities. Haven House is a community safe space designed to engage and challenge while providing a sanctuary for diverse culture, music, and art representative of our community and world.
Renee Jones, founder and visionary for Haven House international, has a background in education and community outreach. As a wife, mother, and entrepreneur she is driven by a passion for the arts and a desire is to help educate, encourage, and inspire the next generation.
Haven House is a community-based youth development non-profit organization providing summer day camp, for youth ages 6 – 13 targeting working families in the 10466-zip code of the northeast Bronx. Haven House will be the answer for working families who desire quality summer programming at an affordable price. The 8 week summer camp program will have a small enrollment with a 1:4 staff to camper ratio and professional teaching artists facilitating arts activities. Field trips will range from attending local community businesses to the Westchester Children’s Museum of Art. Staff will utilize developmentally appropriate activities and curriculum to unearth entrepreneurship principles such as passion and problem solving, values and collaboration, and skills necessary for youth to flourish amid jampacked days full of new experiences, hands on activity, friends, and fun.
The mission is to educate, encourage, and inspire urban youth while enjoying summer, weekend, and after school programming utilizing the arts and entrepreneurship as a vehicle to cultivate creative thinkers, problem solvers, and self-assured collaborators. The vision is to create a haven for youth that transcends socioeconomic barriers, self-segregation, and limited access to quality summer and after school programing. Have House will be a creative, electric, and safe community space that engages, challenges, and helps youth flourish while meeting the needs of working families and filling the gaps of the traditional educational system.
