Safety & Supervision
This is the number of students that must be in a group of an indoor bathroom trip.
What is 3? (3 + Me)
These are the "ABCs" of Positive Behavior Guidance.
Antecedent
Behavior
Consequences
This is the first thing you should do when arriving on site before starting any work.
What is clock-in using phone or laptop in camp office?
This is when Morning Care begins.
What is 8am?
What is Counselor A first, then campers, and Counselor B last?
These are Physical De-Escalation Tactics.
What are
Give Space (stand at an angle, not “toe-to-toe”, stay at least 2 arm lengths away)
Remove the Audience
Use a “Neutral Face”
This is the cell phone use policy for staff.
Active Supervision & Engagement: Staff should be engaged in activities with campers at all times. Phones should not be used in front of campers except for approved, camp-related activities. Acceptable use of cell phones include:
For Counselors: Checking time to assure effective and timely transitions.
For Specialists/Unit Heads: May have a programmatically or role-relevant reason to use their phone (i.e. playing music, transportation coordination, communication w/ camp leadership).
To the best of their ability, staff are expected to not have their phone out around kids.
Lead us in a group clap or cheer.
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These are the different types of hazards.
What are Environmental, Physical, Behavioral/Social, Biological?
These are examples of Escalation Prevention strategies.
Non-Verbal Cues: If you are shouting, you’ve already lost. Establish non-verbal communication such as “Quiet Coyote”, use “The Look”, and Proximity Control.
Positive Narration: Catch kids doing good things
The Sidebar: While the group is busy with a task, lean down and have a 10 second private chat with a camper
The Choice: Give them a sense of control. “You can either sit in the circle or sit on the bench for 2 minutes before joining us”
The Hard Stop: If energy gets dangerously high, Freeze Game, Reset (Don’t lecture, “The energy is a 10, I need a 4. Let’s take 3 breaths together.”), Transition to new activity
These are all the breaks staff are entitled to.
What are:
30 minute lunch break (unpaid)
Two 10 minute breaks (paid)
These are the pick up locations for all groups.
Kindergarten-2nd Grade: Families enter from 19th Ave, use the traffic circle starting at 4:00pm.
3rd Grade-8th Grade: Families enter from the back gate starting at 4:00pm.
After Care Pickup: Families enter from 19th Ave, park, and enter the building to sign out.
In terms of physical injuries, these are the instances where camp staff are expected to contact a camper's family via phone.
What are
Head injuries
and
If they are going home different than the way they arrived
This is why having earbuds in is against camp policy.
What is...
Staff must be able to hear emergency signals, camper distress calls, and verbal instructions from leadership at all times.
Camp is a social environment. Earbuds signal to campers and parents that a staff member is "unavailable" or "tuned out," which contradicts our mission of building community.
This is the difference between Reinforcement and Punishment.
What is....
Reinforcement: a consequence that makes the behavior MORE likely to happen again
Punishment: a consequence that makes the behavior LESS likely to happen again.