ROYAL FAMILY KIDS COLORADO SPRINGS
CAMP + MENTORING CLUB
FOR 6- TO 12-YEAR-OLD FOSTER
CHILDREN IN EL PASO COUNTY
RFK CAMP 2025: Kids Attend
Monday-Friday, June 9-13
PROGRAMS
CAMP
Camp is a weeklong summer camp for foster children, ages 6 to 12. Camp 2025 will be held June 9-13 (volunteers attend June 8-13). RFK adult volunteers run our Camp week for 64 foster kids each summer.
MENTORING CLUB
Mentoring Club is for RFK Little Campers (who attended Camp the summer before) to be mentored one-to-one by RFK staff. Adults are paired one-to-one with kids for mentoring and a mini-Camp experience (Club) once a month.
VOLUNTEER
Each year, we take applications for 80+ adults (18 and older) to serve at Camp. Every full-week volunteer needs to pass high-level background checks and attend 12 hours of training.
VOLUNTEER APPLICATIONS FOR 2025 WILL OPEN THIS DECEMBER
18 or older? Interested in volunteering to serve at Royal Family KIDS Colorado Springs Sun-Fri, June 8-13, 2024 (volunteers head up one day before kids)? Mandatory training is April 25 + 26, 2025 for our adult volunteer team.
THE ROYAL FAMILY KIDS COLORADO SPRINGS TEAM consists of volunteers whose desire it is to see foster children - kids who have experience childhood trauma at the hands of their family - experience safe, healthy adults in a positive environment.
VOLUNTEERING WITH RFK IN 2025
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18 and older to apply
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Complete an application (not publicy listed and only available after passing pre-questionnaire)
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Chosen applicants attend an in-person interview
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Pass an FBI background check & fingerprinting
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Chosen applicants attend mandatory training April 25 (evening) + 26 (all day), 2025
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Be able to attend all of Camp, June 8-13, 2025.
A collection of memories from Camp
RFK COLORADO SPRINGS DIRECTOR
MELISSA TAFOYA has been the RFK Colorado Springs Director since 2017 and a part of the Royal Family KIDS Leadership team since going to Directors' Training in 2011. She and three teammates started Royal Family KIDS Colorado Springs in the summer of 2012.
In 2014, RFK Mentoring Club was added to our programs, allowing us to pair Little Campers to be mentored by adults who volunteered for the week of Camp. She has also worked with the National Office (now For The Children) to write + design the curriculum for Camp.
She and her husband live in Colorado Springs and love spending time in the Cathedral of the Outdoors, hosting dinners and gatherings, and fixing up their 1960s home.
LEADERSHIP
TEAM
YOUR RFK LEADERSHIP TEAM consists of Charissa (Child Placement Coordinator + Mentoring Club Director), and Matt (Dean of Men and Fundraising/Banquet), Bob & Enne (Dean of Men and Dean of Women). This leadership team meets all year long to plan Camp, recruit volunteers, conduct a two-day training, raise funds to send El Paso County foster children and 90+ adults to Camp...and one million other unseen things to bring Royal Family KIDS to life.
MENTORING CLUB DIRECTOR
MARISA DONEGON has been a part of the Royal Family KIDS Camp team since serving at Camp as a Big Camper since 2021. She recently took over as Mentoring Club Director along with her sister, KATIE, who serves as Assistant Director. Kids who attend Camp as Little Campers are eligible to apply for Mentoring Club each schoolyear following the weeklong Royal Family KIDS Camp.
