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Wilderness Works offers Day Camp, City Camp, Summer Camp, Core Camps, and Field Camp, along with activities such as riding a bicycle at City Camp and zipping on the zip line at Camp Glisson. Participants have taken part in a Georgia Tech Climbing Tour and have hiked over 50 miles from Tennessee to Cherokee on the Appalachian Trail. Some children have also spent a week on Cumberland Island and observed 15 different species of animal life.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
Wilderness Works has been serving the community since 1997 and has kept outdoor adventure experiences available for at-risk Atlanta children since that time. The program provides disadvantaged children a safe and enriching alternative with friends and experiences that last a lifetime and bases its work on six core values: Experiential Education, Character Development, Cultural Enrichment, Health & Nutrition, Kinship, and Ecological Awareness. Wilderness Works serves all Atlanta children, especially at-risk and economically disadvantaged children, and continues providing year-round enrichment, experiential education, and character development since 1997. The organization states that children participating in Wilderness Works programming show improved school attendance, more academic aptitude, better grades and classroom behavior, improved relationships with adults, a new sense of options for their future, improvement in self-control and their ability to express their feelings, increased self-confidence, and a heightened interest in hobbies. Many Wilderness Works alumni continue in service during high school and college years in a chaperone or leadership capacity.
Wilderness Works notes that it gives highest priority to homeless children or those facing significant economic disadvantage and equips youth with multiple years of program continuity through a series of graduated programs for children between eight and eighteen. It states that children spend time in safe and nurturing environments largely in nature and the outdoors and that the program delivers cognitive, emotional, physical, and social developmental experiences while complementing school calendars on weekends, school holidays, and during summer months. In 2018, documentary filmmaker Michiel Thomas followed Wilderness Works into the high mountains of Colorado and chronicled the experience of three boys from tough life circumstances and how the transformational power of nature impacted their lives.
Wilderness Works describes itself as an indispensable community resource that effectively channels children, especially at-risk or economically disadvantaged children, toward a bright and productive future. Testimonials from participants include looking forward to being reunited with friends at City Camp, learning to ride a bicycle at City Camp and riding every weekend, overcoming a fear of heights with the Wilderness Works Girls Core Group at the Georgia Tech Climbing Tour, and naming the zip line at Camp Glisson as a favorite summer experience. Wilderness Works summarizes its impact by saying that its work means new hope for life better lived.
Last updated July 31, 2026.
• Ages: 8–18 years old
Wilderness Works has been serving the community since 1997 and has kept outdoor adventure experiences available for at-risk Atlanta children since that time. The program provides disadvantaged children a safe and enriching alternative with friends and experiences that last a lifetime and bases its work on six core values: Experiential Education, Character Development, Cultural Enrichment, Health & Nutrition, Kinship, and Ecological Awareness. Wilderness Works serves all Atlanta children, especially at-risk and economically disadvantaged children, and continues providing year-round enrichment, experiential education, and character development since 1997. The organization states that children participating in Wilderness Works programming show improved school attendance, more academic aptitude, better grades and classroom behavior, improved relationships with adults, a new sense of options for their future, improvement in self-control and their ability to express their feelings, increased self-confidence, and a heightened interest in hobbies. Many Wilderness Works alumni continue in service during high school and college years in a chaperone or leadership capacity.
Wilderness Works notes that it gives highest priority to homeless children or those facing significant economic disadvantage and equips youth with multiple years of program continuity through a series of graduated programs for children between eight and eighteen. It states that children spend time in safe and nurturing environments largely in nature and the outdoors and that the program delivers cognitive, emotional, physical, and social developmental experiences while complementing school calendars on weekends, school holidays, and during summer months. In 2018, documentary filmmaker Michiel Thomas followed Wilderness Works into the high mountains of Colorado and chronicled the experience of three boys from tough life circumstances and how the transformational power of nature impacted their lives.
Wilderness Works describes itself as an indispensable community resource that effectively channels children, especially at-risk or economically disadvantaged children, toward a bright and productive future. Testimonials from participants include looking forward to being reunited with friends at City Camp, learning to ride a bicycle at City Camp and riding every weekend, overcoming a fear of heights with the Wilderness Works Girls Core Group at the Georgia Tech Climbing Tour, and naming the zip line at Camp Glisson as a favorite summer experience. Wilderness Works summarizes its impact by saying that its work means new hope for life better lived.
Last updated July 31, 2026.
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