Every child who goes to camp deserves to go home safe

On the morning of July 4, 2025, the Guadalupe River in the Texas Hill Country rose more than twenty-five feet in under an hour. Catastrophic floods swept through Central Texas that day, killing more than 135 people across the region. At Camp Mystic, an all-girls summer camp that had welcomed generations of children, the floodwaters arrived in the dark while campers slept. Twenty-seven campers and counselors died.

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In the months that followed, the girls' parents turned their grief into advocacy, working with Texas lawmakers to pass new camp safety legislation. Watching them fight for change is what led us to build The Safety Navigator.

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Turning that legislation into day-to-day implementation at camps is its own challenge. The camp community cares deeply about the children in its care. That was never the problem. The problem is access. Good safety planning takes expertise, time, and money, and large, well-resourced camps can afford dedicated safety support while small and mid-sized camps are largely on their own. Meanwhile, state requirements are expanding, insurers are tightening standards, and weather patterns are shifting. Most camps have had to navigate all of it alone.

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So we built the thing we wished existed: the first comprehensive, free, tech-enabled safety platform for the camp industry. We take real safety expertise from high-hazard industries and translate it into practical tools any camp can use, regardless of size, budget, or accreditation: training, risk assessment, templates, a curated vendor directory, and a community of peers, not just emergency planning. No jargon, no cost, no assumption that you already know how any of this works.

 

We are not a regulator, a consultant, or an accreditation body. We do not charge camps to use the platform, and we do not tell camps what to do. We give them the knowledge, tools, and community to figure it out themselves.