Camp Not-A-Wheeze is a refuge for children living with chronic lung disease, or allergic conditions. After celebrating its 35th year of camp in 2023, we are excited about continuing our mission and outreach. In a traditional camp setting asthma and allergy education is integrated with recreational camp activities. This empowers children to understand and avoid their triggers, recognize warning signals of an oncoming episode, properly use their medications, and exercise control over their disease. We serve 7-14 year old children with asthma, allergic conditions (EoE, food allergies, atopic dermatitis, etc), and their siblings.

Historically, a majority of these campers may not be accepted into other camps due to the constant monitoring, specialty foods, and medication requirements that are typically integral to disease management. Medical volunteers can be found throughout Camp (in cabins with kids, accompanying kids to activities, teaching asthma education, and staffing the infirmary). These volunteers MUST be licensed medical professionals in order to attend. We also utilize students of medical programs and additional operational volunteers to have a very high ratio of volunteers to campers.

We boast about our skilled medical direction and physician volunteer team from the Phoenix Children’s Hospital who serve in the infirmary as the Camp Physicians. The volunteer team assures campers and parents alike that 24 hour care is ready and available to support these children.