VIDBE-Q 2025 Volume 70 Issue 4
Recognizing the importance of family tradition and relationships is another
feature of Camp which aligns with Navajo culture and practice. When families
bring their student athlete to Cameron, they become acquainted with the Camp
nurse, Director, and their child's one-on-one coach, as well as get a chance to see
the room in which their child will be staying. Family presence is also a highlight of
the closing ceremony, where each coach presents an award to their student athlete
to identify the athlete's individual achievements during Camp. At that ceremony,
all staff make efforts to speak personally with families, recounting the unique
successes, accomplishments, and personality of each child. Parents and families get
an opportunity also to meet their child's new friends, as friendships are made and
maintained long after Camp is over.
CAFC had planned a one-day golf clinic in Kirtland, New Mexico, on
October 11, 2025, to include family members. This would have given student
athletes the chance to spend time with their parents and siblings while enjoying the
game of golf, and families the opportunity to see in person how coaches and
instructors work with their child with visual impairment. Teen-age and adult non-
golfers would have had the chance to learn a new skill. This first-ever clinic was
created to honor a generous grant received last year from the Wadsworth Golf
Charities Foundation. Mother Nature, in the form of Hurricane Priscilla, had other
plans, and the clinic had to be cancelled due to heavy and prolonged rains and
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