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Safety is our priority at Y Day Camps
22 May 2018 - by Alex Te
The countdown is on! There are only 6 short weeks before the start of the 2018 summer day camp season — and we can’t wait to get started! Right now, Y Day Camps senior staff team members are participating in more than 100 hours of pre-camp training, designed to ensure the best and safest camp experience for your child.
Today marks the first day of the Day Camps team’s our Director University — a week focused solely on training our Camp Directors to be the best leaders they can be this summer.Our Day Camp pledge is to provide fun and exciting programs for our campers, while also making sure they are safe. To honour this pledge, Director University is broken down into training directors in three main categories:
1. Camper Safety and Supervision: Safety of our campers is our top priority. During this week, Directors will go through extensive training on camper sign in/out processes, emergency procedures, supporting campers with challenging behavior, camper integration, and much more.
2. Customer Service & Site Standards: Providing great customer service to parents is essential to a great summer camp experience. Our Directors work as a team to perfect their skills in communicating with parents, staff, volunteers, and community partners, and practice things like issues management and dealing with unexpected events.
3. Program Standards: High-quality programming is important to ensure campers are engaged, learning, and are having fun every day. Directors will learn the standards that need to be set for counsellors when they are programming activities for their camper group, including ensuring that activities are age-appropriate and that each camp has everything it needs to safely and effectively carry out its programs.
Director University sessions are interactive, hands-on experiences designed to ensure that our Directors are ready to hit the ground running in July. And this is just one step in our extensive training process: in two weeks, nearly 200 senior Camp staff will visit beautiful YMCA Camp Pine Crest for four days of building relationships and even more training — all designed to make the 2018 camp season the best one ever for our campers and their families.
Today marks the first day of the Day Camps team’s our Director University — a week focused solely on training our Camp Directors to be the best leaders they can be this summer.Our Day Camp pledge is to provide fun and exciting programs for our campers, while also making sure they are safe. To honour this pledge, Director University is broken down into training directors in three main categories:
1. Camper Safety and Supervision: Safety of our campers is our top priority. During this week, Directors will go through extensive training on camper sign in/out processes, emergency procedures, supporting campers with challenging behavior, camper integration, and much more.
2. Customer Service & Site Standards: Providing great customer service to parents is essential to a great summer camp experience. Our Directors work as a team to perfect their skills in communicating with parents, staff, volunteers, and community partners, and practice things like issues management and dealing with unexpected events.
3. Program Standards: High-quality programming is important to ensure campers are engaged, learning, and are having fun every day. Directors will learn the standards that need to be set for counsellors when they are programming activities for their camper group, including ensuring that activities are age-appropriate and that each camp has everything it needs to safely and effectively carry out its programs.
Director University sessions are interactive, hands-on experiences designed to ensure that our Directors are ready to hit the ground running in July. And this is just one step in our extensive training process: in two weeks, nearly 200 senior Camp staff will visit beautiful YMCA Camp Pine Crest for four days of building relationships and even more training — all designed to make the 2018 camp season the best one ever for our campers and their families.
