Educated staff, safer camps.
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1 in 4 girls and 1 in 13 boys will be sexually abused before they turn 18 years old. The actual number is much higher as most children never report. In the past 25 years, more than 575 cases of child sexual abuse have been reported at camps in North America. Ninety percent of the time a child is harmed by someone they know and trust.
CampSafe® is an innovative eLearn program designed to protect campers and staff from child sexual abuse.
“We used CampSafe for the first time this summer. We were skeptical but those fears quickly went away. Having the ability to train every adult who enters our camp on such important information was so easy and SO important. We had a better and safer camp because of CampSafe and that is priceless.”
Whole-Camp Approach: All staff and volunteers go through the training BEFORE arriving at camp. This includes counselors, dining, maintenance, administration, specialist, health providers. Everyone.
Powerful Messaging: Demonstrates to parents that protecting their children is your foremost concern. Demonstrates to staff and volunteers applicants that your camp has zero tolerance for sexual abuse.
Orientation Kickstart: Reinforces and enhances orientation week sessions focused on abuse prevention.
Harm Reduction: CampSafe trained staff reduce the risk of sexual abuse at camp.
Cultural Education: Ensures that international staff understand American culture regarding child sexual abuse.
Proactive approach: Training staff and volunteers helps break the cycle of child sexual abuse and shines an important light on this often-taboo topic. This results in Educated Staff, Safer Camps.
Open dialogue: Training focused squarely on sexual abuse prevention sends a message that your camp has “zero tolerance” for sexual abuse. This helps weed out potential staff who may have other motives.
Training efficiency: Online training before camp begins allows more time during pre-camp orientation to integrate the concept of creating a Culture of Safety at camp.
Combination themes: Open conversations with staff about sexual abuse prevention are paired with conversations about modeling healthy relationships, boundaries and consent.
Training guides: An outline for pre-camp training during orientation is provided to the camp director as part of the CampSafe training.
Focus on Compassion: CampSafe training promotes compassion toward campers. Trained staff become fluent in the language of safety while providing comfort, aide and access to supervisory staff for guidance.
The goal of this training is for all staff, including counselors, administrators, supervisors, dining, health, volunteers, and board members to arrive at camp with the same strong foundational knowledge of child sexual abuse prevention and awareness. It is created with our young adults in mind (18 to 26), for them to take the topic seriously, but not instill fear.
Our philosophy is to empower caregivers in all settings with a level of confidence around this topic, therefore better protecting our staff and campers. (The training takes approx. 40 minutes to complete.) The course has pre and post testing and certification.
Screening, interviewing and background check protocol
Child protection policy and procedures
Supervising around the issues of child sexual abuse prevention
In person follow-up training to provide during Pre-camp week Links to state resources Establishing healthy boundaries ice breakers for counselors/campers Sexual harassment Letters to parents and staff Pre and Post Testing for certification
“CampSafe provided an easy yet effective resource to train our summer and seasonal staff in the important understanding of protecting children placed in our care. It handles the serious matter of child abuse in a way that doesn’t sugar coat the problem but also makes it digestible for high school and college aged staff. The online course also provided great discussion points when we did our inperson training. We would recommend CampSafe to any camp to equip their staff and make sure their campers are safe.”"
Residential Camp, Director of Learning, North Carolina
CampSafe training is effective, economical, and user-friendly. CampSafe is efficient. Our compact, eLearn instruction provides camp staff with the confidence, knowledge and skills they will need to recognize and prevent sexual abuse.
CampSafe training is consistent across all camp personnel, promoting a campwide culture of safety.
CampSafe trains staff online BEFORE they arrive at camp. They arrive ready for enhanced instruction at pre-camp orientation.
On completion of training, camps are awarded CampSafe Certification, steadfast assurance to campers and their families that child safety is your camp’s first priority.
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