Summer 2025 Programs

Relate Counseling Center is excited to offer Camp Emoji, Healthy Minds, and eGen Program during Summer 2025!

CAMP EMOJI

This summer in our local communities, we are providing Camp Emoji, a day camp for kids in kindergarten through 5th grade. Led by mental health clinicians, camp is designed to enhance emotional and mental well-being through intentional, therapeutic activities. We offer Camp Emoji in partnership with Orono Community Education, Wayzata Community Education, Eastern Carver Community Education.

Camp Emoji teaches children about core emotions including joy, anger, fear/worry, and sadness, and equips them with skills to identify and manage their feelings effectively. Campers learn techniques to improve self-regulation skills and cope with life’s challenges. We successfully offered Camp Emoji for the past three summers, and the feedback from parents has been overwhelmingly positive.

“Thank you SO SO much for offering this camp! It is so helpful to my seven-year-old daughter who can go from 0-100 in about 5 seconds. She looked forward to each camp each day and could tell us some strategies that she learned. The best part is, she is actually using them willingly in our home. This is helpful not only to my child but the rest of our family living with her!! Thank you! Please keep this program going”

– Parent of Past Camper

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Healthy Minds

A mental health booster open to referrals from parents and/or other providers!

Register Here: Healthy Minds Summer 2025

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eGen Program

Parenting doesn’t come with a manual…are you looking for some new tools for your parenting toolbox?

Empowered Generations (eGen) is a positive behavior support program for parents/caregivers of children ages 3-8 years old. This service is only available via telehealth.

eGen is:

• Strengths-based
• Culturally responsive
• Brief (Intake plus 6 sessions) The 7 sessions can take place anytime between June-August
• This service is billable to insurance
• Online
• Based on evidence-based program (Generation PMTO) and linked to powerful outcomes for parents and children.

The core components and skills parents will learn are:

• Encouraging positive behavior
• Effective communication
• Limit setting
• Positive involvement
• Clear Directions
• Emotion Regulation

Testimonial: ““Our cooperation with our child at that point literally skyrocketed… It really helped us remove a lot of stress from our lives by going through (the program).”

Form for services: E-Gen Program

Learn more here: https://knowledgeforparents.umn.edu/empowered-generations