Fall Experience: YMCA Camp Surf is our newest Gen IX location. Located close to the San Diego airport, the airy facilities sit on miles of beautiful beach coastline. The lapping waves are easily accessed for surf instruction, outdoor workshops, and evening campfires. The professional staff holds certifications in ocean safety and surf instruction.

Mentorship Experience: YMCA Camp Collins is nestled in a temperate rainforest outside of Portland, Oregon. Seated on the Sandy River with its own beach, miles of trail, and a state-of-the-art high ropes course, Collins boasts beautiful outdoor meeting areas and indoor facilities. The cabins offer comfortable accommodations with restrooms, and private shower facilities are nearby. Camp Collins is the original home of the Generation IX Project Mentorship experience and offers the perfect balance of remote living and modern convenience. 

Thanks to the generosity of Medexus, participation and travel for all Generation IX Project events are provided at no cost to participants.

Generation IX is designed to empower and develop your skills as an advocate, leader, and mentor through team challenges and serious fun. Expect a balance of physical, mental, and emotional approaches to learning. The facilitation team will work closely with your group to understand individual needs and requests. Every Generation IX participant will have the opportunity to choose from a spectrum of challenge levels.

 The program is designed and implemented by the experiential education company, GutMonkey. Your facilitation team has years of experience in mentorship training, the outdoor education field, and the bleeding disorders community. 

 We will make the most of our time together, so please expect an active schedule. You will stay in cabin lodging, have group mealtimes, and follow a schedule of workshops and activities. We will make use of the beautiful outdoor settings for workshops as much as possible. Expect scheduled time for rest and reflection and know that you can always discuss adaptations to your experience with your facilitators at any time. 

 Previous activities have included high and low ropes challenge courses, urban scavenger hunts, rafting, and other team-building activities.

Step into your potential as a community leader. Join young adults from around the country, all affected by hemophilia B, and engage in active and enlightening experiential training. Grow closer to your cohort of leaders and learn more about yourself and your personal leadership style. Workshops and themes have addressed authentic leadership and equity in leadership.

Multiple generations of advocates come together to discuss some of the hardest, and most worthwhile topics affecting the hemophilia B community today. Work together to pass community knowledge and culture to the next generation of leaders.

The Generation IX Project Mentorship Experience is your opportunity to find yourself in the hemophilia B community through fun and engaging community building and state-of-the-art training. Young adult mentors explore themes of mentorship and personal development with an experiential approach before welcoming teen participants to join in an unforgettable weekend of adventure education challenges and communal living. 

The Generation IX Project fosters exploration, challenge, and adventure. While not all risks can be eliminated, we take your health and safety very seriously and implement precautions to mitigate the risk of COVID-19. We need your help and cooperation to keep our community healthy and to continue offering events from the Generation IX Project.

There will be a GutMonkey facilitator designated as a COVID-19 Manager leading up to and during the program. They will be a consistent point of contact for questions and support. 

Please read and sign the entire COVID-19 Participant Agreement, which details the expectations we have of participants. 

Generation IX Project COVID-19 protocols may be informed by the following sources:

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) guidelines

Federal, state, or local regulations

Facility and contractor rules

Professional consultants from relevant fields

Medical professionals who serve the bleeding disorders community

Partner organizations

Change is frequent in the world of COVID-19, and it’s likely that our policies and procedures will be revised. Please read all emails from Camp Doc and GutMonkey. We are available to answer questions along the way. 

Mentor Volunteers will be lodging with teen participants in cabins and are required to do a background check before attending the program. Once a Mentor Volunteer completes their application, we will contact them to arrange the background check.