Action Camp

Our largest youth leadership convening of the year, Action Camp is a 5-day sleepaway camp that the Alliance co-hosts with Youth Services each August, bringing together leaders from GSAs and youth groups across the state to learn from one another and shape the safer schools movement. Action Camp is a space often described as “magical” where youth are able to see their identities reflected back at them, sharpen their critical lens, strengthen their own anti-oppressive frameworks, and actively skill-share and practice what it means to create spaces in the world where all identities are safe, supported, affirmed, and celebrated. Action Camp is open to youth leaders who are rising 8th graders through rising Seniors in high school.

Action Camp 2026 will take place from Monday, August 3 to Friday, August 7. Applications will open in the Spring.

Are you interested in sponsorship or donation opportunities?

Thank you to our Action Camp 2025 Sponsors!

Tie Dye Trailblazer

Bunk Buddies

Allison McDowell Fund for Mental Health Support – SRCCF

Dorothy Downstairs, LLC

GSA Network

Supporters

Barbara and Barbara Salon

Equal Love Strikes – Social LGBTQ+ Ally Bowling League

Lola and Family Beatty

Thank you to our Action Camp 2025 Community Partners!

THANK YOU to everyone who joined us on April 19, 2025 for our 2nd annual Action Camp Fundraiser, Off the Grid, at Sidetrack in Chicago — and thank you to the organizers and performers pictured above who made it happen!