Staff Training

Conflicts between kids at summer camp can arise for a wide variety of reasons. Here are some steps to help guide you through conflict resolution.

When you agreed to work at camp, you immediately made the decision to have fun, challenge yourself, and change lives. While the format to accomplish this will be provided for you...

Dear Camp Counselor: This summer you will join, figuratively, with more than 320,000 staff working at some 2,400 accredited camps serving more than 7.4 million children nationwide...

We've all been there. We're trying to help or referee some situation with kids, we're told a few things or parts of the story, and we think we know what happened, so we turn to the...

Many campers experience homesickness. This article will advise summer camp counselors how to help their campers overcome homesickness.

This resource offers advice to summer camp counselors who need to deal with campers saying something "-ist."

This article shows summer camp counselors how to turn past and present failures into future successes.

Connecting with campers can be difficult for summer camp counselors now that campers have more screen time than ever.

The first thing summer camp counselors should do going into camp season is decide how they want campers to remember them once the season ends.

Staff are the front line in advancing the mission of the camp, protecting the camp, and, most importantly, protecting the campers from harm.