In 1990, when DLSS first started, there were few summer programs in Delta and none of them had the trained staff and level of support required to host children and youth with a wide range of disabilities. Even today, while the number of summer day camps in general has grown, the Delta Life Skills Summer Program is the only one of its kind in Delta.
The first Delta Life Skills Summer Fun Program (as it was then known), was launched with just under 10 participants. Today, the six-week program hosts 35 to 50 participants each summer and continues to be run, as it was back then, by a dedicated volunteer Board of Directors – many of them parents of children living with disabilities.