Creative ways to staff summer camp amid labor shortages. Last summer, JCC Chicago served over 3,500 children from ages three to 13 across nine different summer camps. Those countless hours of memories and opportunities for ...
Based in Mill Valley, California, Veronica started Camp Funderblast in 2013. A sociology major with over two decades of camp experience, Veronica saw starting her own camp as an opportunity to test out an idea: ...
Parks and Recreation director, Jason Schaitz, provides examples of necessary camp documentation and record keeping advice to improve camp operations. It is extremely important to keep well organized documentation and records on your camp operations ...
When and how you communicate has a big impact on your relationships. This rings especially true when it comes to communication with the parents of your campers. Keeping parents in the loop before, during and ...
An extremely rare opportunity in the form of Sunrise Day Camp is coming to the JCC Chicago next summer. The Sunrise Association Day Camps are the world’s only dedicated day camps for children with cancer ...
Part One of coordinating successful camp activities provided 20 points to help you successfully coordinate any activity with a focus on planning, having fun and keeping kids engaged. Part Two outlines additional points, including how ...
Learn how Camp Yachad at the JCC of Central New Jersey makes inclusion an agency-wide priority. For over 20 years, Camp Yachad at the JCC of Central New Jersey has offered support and accommodations to ...
Jason Schaitz shares 20 tips for coordinating successful camp activities. Creating and coordinating fun and engaging activities is why your participants attend camp and keep coming back. It is important that you thoroughly plan out ...
Having a camper rewards program will help with camper behavior issues by recognizing your campers for good behavior and giving them an incentive to follow the rules. You would need to purchase things like small ...
Around 20 million children in the U.S. attend summer camp every year, according to the American Camp Association. As community centers host a majority of these children, it’s vital you are providing fun, safe and ...