Behavioral Skills
Campers should have the ability to:
- Manage self-care in an age appropriate manner
- Independently function in a community without consistent one on one support
- Practice personal health routines, including: showering, brushing teeth, going to the bathroom, dietary management etc.
- Self-calm following an event that causes frustration, sadness, or anger
- Communicate how they are feeling using differing emotions, such as happiness, distress, nervousness, frustration
- Advocate for personal needs by talking to a staff member
- Manage the sleep-away aspects of camp in an age appropriate manner
- Complete duration of session without in-person visits or outside phone calls
- Participate in a group living situation
- Sleep in a room with up to 11 other people without sleep aids
- Live in a rustic outdoor setting with no personal electronic devices
- Follow verbal instructions and rules
- Communicate conversationally in English
- Remain in areas of supervision as defined by staff
- Resolve conflicts without resorting to physical contact or verbal abuse
- Live successfully in an active social community that includes constant interaction with other children
- Understand camp rules regarding safety and respect
- Will remain in their assigned living units after lights out
- And will not possess or use alcoholic beverages, tobacco, E-cigarettes, Juuls, narcotics, recreational drugs and firearms/weapons