Ticks, Tears and Toothpaste: A Counselor's Role in Healthcare

Course Description: Ticks, Tears, and Toothpaste is a course designed especially for front-line camp counselors, to bring attention to the counselor's role in providing campers with a safe and healthy camp experience. No matter what role a counselor has at camp, he or she will be working with and around children. And while it may be exciting to teach crafts, swimming, or tiddlywinks, the bottom line for the parents who brought their children to camp and for your camp director is the safety and health of the campers.

Parents rely on camp staff to perform their job to a certain standard, and campers need staff to be prepared. Camp staff have a responsibility to conduct activities and supervise groups of campers in a manner that maintains, if not improves, the health of each individual.

By the end of this course learners will understand their role in:

Preventing “Staff Infection”
– How to maintain their personal health and act as a role model for campers

Keeping Your Beauties from Becoming Beasts
– How to help campers maintain their health and when to intervene

Being a Risk Manager
– A counselor's “Duty to Act” and what that means

 

Course Length: 45 minutes
Course Credit: .75 CEC

TWO Purchase Options:  
Single Person Access to the Course
Price:  $20 member; $55 nonmember
Purchase the "Ticks, Tears and Toothpaste" course

Multiple Person (up to 50 persons*), subscription access to the Course
Price:  $50 member; $85 nonmember
*Additional learners will be $5 per person member; $28 nonmember.  Please contact ACA to place your order for more than 50 learners 800-428-2267 ext. 305
Purchase the "Ticks, Tears and Toothpaste" course subscription for up to 50 persons.

Please note the following for subscription access:

  • You will be required to supply enrollment information for each learner
  • The cost of the course allows up to 50 members of your staff to take the course until December 31 of the current year, unless you purchase additional learners. After that time, you/your camp will need to purchase the course again for the following year.
  • Your staff may complete the program at their convenience.