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After Camp Opportunity for Your Counselors – Augsut 14 – 28th
The Main Idea is a free magical summer experience for 100 kids from low-income backgrounds. We are looking to hire exceptional female cabin counselors, riding staff, and trip staff. Please pass the following along to your counselor staff! The Main Idea is a free magical summer experience for 100 kids from low-income backgrounds. Are you ready to grow, learn, and change, digging deep into yourself to discover the values you want to pass forward to the next generation? Can you balance self-care with the incredible energy and excitement of a roaring camp environment? Are you ready to enter into community with fifty-three years of wacky traditions and the people who love them? When: August 14th-28th Where: Camp Walden, Denmark, Maine Payment: Begins...
Navigating Covid-19 at Camp This Summer
As we surf from variant wave to wave, camps are realizing the fortune of low cases at camp’s opening last year may not be in the cards for 2022. This blog from Laura Blaisdell, MD/MPH, FAAP, covers important concepts for camp directors to understand when it comes to operating this summer. Click here to read the blog
June 16, 2022 Camp Health Care Center Workshop
Join new and seasoned nurses for an informational session to help you get a jumpstart on health and wellness for summer 2022. We will review setting up your health center, staffing, medication management, supporting staff, communicating with parents, communicable disease plans, how to prepare for the health inspector and more. This session will be facilitated by Gail White, RN. Gail is a School Nurse and has been a Camp Nurse and Health Center Supervisor for 15 years. When: Thursday June 16th from 1-4pm Where: Camp Wawenock, 33 Wawenock Road, Raymond Cost: $40 per person. Register here by June 9th Send checks to: Camp Wawenock, 33 Wawenock Road, Raymond, ME 04071 Questions? Contact Catriona at 207-655-4657 or catriona@campwawenock.com
Camp Kindness Day – July 19, 2022
On July 19, the camp community will participate in Camp Kindness Day – an event highlighting the practice of intentional kindness that happens every day at American camps. This is an opportunity to raise awareness of the the great work that camps are doing to teach kindness in engaging, simple, repeatable, and high impact ways that live on in the daily lives of campers and staff members when they return home. Click here for more information.
July 12, 2022 – Chris Thurber Staff Training Workshop, Camp Wawenock , Raymond
Register your staff for MSC’s best ever summer seminar presented by esteemed educator and camp and youth professional Chris Thurber, Ph.D. Your staff will strengthen their core leadership skills and connect with other staff while learning: (1) Practical strategies to bond with campers; (2) Collaborative ways to resolve conflicts; (3) Effective methods for helping with homesickness; and (4) Prosocial responses to bullying behavior. After practicing this four-pack of behavior management essentials with new friends from other camps, your staff will leave with the confidence and stamina they need to enjoy the rest of the season. As a bonus, they’ll also get tips on self-care and guidance for writing camp jobs on their resume– two sets of professional skills they can...