Volusia County’s Community Assistance Division is accepting applications from nonprofit organizations, cities, schools, and churches that want to provide summer camp services for the 2024 summer camp scholarship program.

Participating providers must operate a camp from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday for at least six weeks between June 3 and Aug. 9. Services should include supervised playground activities, sports, crafts, and field trips for children ages 5 to 14. Camps serving primarily special needs children may accept applicants up to age 17.

Camps are encouraged to provide opportunities for healthy eating and physical activity. Applicants must have proven administrative capacity and at least one year of experience working on a summer camp program or similar services.

Scholarships will be provided to children whose families are at or below 200% of the current federal poverty guidelines. Providers will be reimbursed per child, based on their attendance, at a rate not to exceed the maximum weekly rate established by Volusia County.

The application is available at www.volusia.org/scs. The deadline to submit completed applications is 2 p.m. Feb. 2. Applicants who have not participated in the program previously must attend a training session before submitting the application. To schedule training, contact William Mollentze at 386-736-5955, ext. 12965, or wmollentze@volusia.org by Jan. 19.

The Children and Families Advisory Board will review and evaluate applications at 1:30 p.m. Feb. 13 in the Ormond Beach Regional Library auditorium, 30 S. Beach St., Ormond Beach. Agency representatives are encouraged to attend the meeting.