Your Volunteer Role and housing information

Welcome to your Volunteer assignment page! Here you’ll find all the details that will help you feel right at home for the weekend, including your volunteer assignment, your housing assignment, and a heads up to the people you can expect to be there with you during the weekend.

Each of these selections was thoughtfully arranged in hopes of creating a fun, supportive, and connected experience for you, our families and everyone.

You have been selected as a PROGRAM PAL!

Program Pals provide programming which gives our campers the opportunity to try new things and push beyond their comfort zone. Volunteers in this role are assigned to oversee a program area such as Arts & Crafts, Woodshop, Archery, Boating, Fishing, Adam’s Race Shop or the Fab Shop. As a Program Pal you will join a family when your program area is closed so you can continue to experience all of the magic of camp.

Specific program roles are assigned closer to camp, sometimes when you first arrive. Potential program areas include, FISHING, BARN, ARTS & CRAFTS, CAFETERIA, STEM & the NASCARNIVAL.

Your tag along family for the weekend is THE LAZARUS FAMILY!

Your assigned program area isn’t open very long and some days not at all. When that is the case, you spend the rest of the day with an assigned family and family pal.

The Lazarus are local to the Carolinas and both their father and daughter have EPP. When speaking about the experience for their daughter Claire last year, the family wrote “I can't even explain in words how meaningful last year’s sun escape weekend was for Claire but really our whole ]family. For the first time in our lives, we all felt seen, heard and understood. It was unbelievable to speak to others that "get it".

Your Family’s Basic Info & Their Color Grouping

Photosensitive Condition: Erythropoietic Protoporphyria

Primary Camper: Claire Lazarus (12)

Additional Family members: Allison Lazarus, David Lazarus, Aubrey Lazarus

Home State: South Carolina

At Sun Escape, each family is assigned a color group to help guide the flow of the weekend. While many activities are enjoyed together, this color determines the schedule your family will follow for certain program areas. Their cabin will match their assigned color, making it easy to stay connected with your group throughout the weekend.

Your family’s assigned color group is YELLOW

The Families in The YELLOW Group Will Be

  • The Lazarus Family - EPP (Hannah Barclay)

  • The Bovet Family - SOLAR URTICARIA (Melba Jean Miller)

  • The Delorme Family - EPP (Leslie Schopmeyer)

  • The Komon Family - EPP (Emily Pearson)

  • The Ouimet Family - EPP (Ginger Gonsalves)

  • The Hynes Family - EPP (Cortney Tabakelis)

  • The Wilt-Helmick Family - EPP (Tina Birdsong)

  • The Mitchell Family - EPP (Hetanshi Naik)

Your Volunteer Housing Assignment

Volunteers and support staff will not be located on cabin row; instead, they will be organized together in communal housing close to the Super Dome. Resembling a college dorm, most units accommodate 4 to 5 guests, featuring two private bedrooms, a common area, and a shared bathroom.

If you've indicated that you're traveling with a partner or family member, we will ensure that you are placed in the same room. You have been assigned to room P1 in our Program Housing Wing, which also includes:

  • Tina Songbird

  • Erin Janiak

  • Tonya Maier-Ehlers

  • Stephanee Schrimpf

We cannot wait to see you soon!