March 1, 2024
"NH students deserve a great summer
The New Hampshire Department of Education is partnering with New Hampshire camps and school-age summer programs across the state to offer students the unique opportunity to move beyond COVID-19 and be a kid again. Students of all ages, backgrounds and abilities benefit from exposure to short-term summer enrichment programs, including in the areas of challenge, friend-making, positivity, and emotional safety. These are all things that New Hampshire camps and school-age programs do best.
To be eligible, students must be of school age – at least five and no more than 22 years of age by September 1, 2024.
Students with a qualifying disability are eligible for up to $775 in support. Qualifying disabilities include the following:
Intellectual disability,
A hearing impairment including deafness, a speech or language impairment,
A speech or language impairment,
A visual impairment including blindness,
An emotional disturbance,
An orthopedic impairment,
Autism,
Traumatic brain injury,
Acquired brain injury (a brain injury that occurs after birth including injury sustained by infection, disease, or lack of oxygen resulting in total or partial functional disability or psychosocial impairment, or both, that adversely affects a child’s educational performance and requires special education and/or related services),
Other health impairment (health impairment due to chronic or acute health problems such as asthma, attention deficit disorder or attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, diabetes, epilepsy, a heart condition, hemophilia, lead poisoning, leukemia, nephritis, rheumatic fever, sickle cell anemia, and Tourette syndrome, and adversely affects a child’s educational performance),
A specific learning disability,
Deaf-blindness,
Multiple disabilities, or
A child experiencing developmental delays (a child aged 3-9 experiencing developmental delays in physical development, cognitive development, communication development, social or emotional development, or adaptive development, and who, by reason thereof, needs special education and related services).
Students whose families make at or below 250% of the Federal Poverty Level are eligible for up to $625 in support
Students whose families make between 250% and 400% of the Federal Poverty Level are eligible for up to $475 in support"
Please contact Rekindling@doe.nh.gov with any additional questions
FOR ALL PROGRAM INFORMATION AND HOW TO APPLY PLEASE VISIT THE LINK BELOW:
https://rekindlingcuriosityeducation.nh.gov/
https://rekindlingcuriosityeducation.nh.gov/