scholarly journals Summer Camp Health Initiative: An Overview of Injury and Illness in Two Canadian Summer Camps

Cureus ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adam Handler ◽  
Mattan Lustgarten ◽  
Arielle Zahavi ◽  
Daniel D Freedman ◽  
Les Rosoph ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Summer Camp ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Health Initiative

scholarly journals Medical Record Keeping in the Summer Camp Setting

2016 ◽  
Vol 07 (04) ◽  
pp. 1154-1167
Author(s):  
Jaycelyn Holland ◽  
Stuart Weinberg ◽  
S. Rosenbloom ◽  
Laura Kaufman
Keyword(s):  
Medical Record ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
The United States ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Pediatric Care ◽  
Health Staff ◽  
Health Providers ◽  
Health Records ◽  
Record Keeping ◽  
Survey Responses

Summary Background Approximately one fifth of school-aged children spend a significant portion of their year at residential summer camp, and a growing number have chronic medical conditions. Camp health records are essential for safe, efficient care and for transitions between camp and home providers, yet little research exists regarding these systems. Objective To survey residential summer camps for children to determine how camps create, store, and use camper health records. To raise awareness in the informatics community of the issues experienced by health providers working in a special pediatric care setting. Methods We designed a web-based electronic survey concerning medical recordkeeping and healthcare practices at summer camps. 953 camps accredited by the American Camp Association received the survey. Responses were consolidated and evaluated for trends and conclusions. Results Of 953 camps contacted, 298 (31%) responded to the survey. Among respondents, 49.3% stated that there was no computer available at the health center, and 14.8% of camps stated that there was not any computer available to health staff at all. 41.1% of camps stated that internet access was not available. The most common complaints concerning recordkeeping practices were time burden, adequate completion, and consistency. Conclusions Summer camps in the United States make efforts to appropriately document healthcare given to campers, but inconsistency and inefficiency may be barriers to staff productivity, staff satisfaction, and quality of care. Survey responses suggest that the current methods used by camps to document healthcare cause limitations in consistency, efficiency, and communications between providers, camp staff, and parents. As of 2012, survey respondents articulated need for a standard software to document summer camp healthcare practices that accounts for camp-specific needs. Improvement may be achieved if documentation software offers the networking capability, simplicity, pediatrics-specific features, and avoidance of technical jargon. Citation: Kaufman L, Holland J, Weinberg S, Rosenbloom ST. Medical record keeping in the summer camp setting.

Places of Memory as a Tool for Education: The “Peace in Four Voices Summer Camps” at Monte Sole

2008 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-37 ◽  
Author(s):  
NADIA BAIESI ◽  
MARZIA GIGLI ◽  
ELENA MONICELLI ◽  
ROBERTA PELLIZZOLI
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Peace Education ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Major Activity ◽  
School Project ◽  
Places Of Memory ◽  
Culture Of Peace

Abstract This essay explores how a place of memory can be used as a crucial tool in peace education activities with students from elementary to high school. It draws on the work of the Peace School of Monte Sole and specifically focuses on the “Peace in Four Voices” summer camp, which brings together youth from conflict regions to foster a culture of peace. The camp is a major activity in the Peace School project, since it is from this ten-year-long experience that the idea of a “Peace School” was conceived of and developed.

scholarly journals Examining the Role of Summer Camps in Developing Academic and Workplace Readiness

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 83-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cait Wilson ◽  
Jim Sibthorp
Keyword(s):  
Experiential Learning ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Workplace Readiness ◽  
Relationship Skills ◽  
Self Confidence ◽  
Supportive Environments ◽  
Communal Living

Summer camps are an effective setting for youth to develop skills essential for academics and the workplace yet are often not recognized as such. Therefore, the primary aim of this study was to investigate learning outcomes from camp most applicable to academics and workplace readiness. As a secondary aim, the researchers sought to identify the mechanisms at camp that support this learning. Youths’ primary learning outcomes include relationship skills, teamwork, how to live with peers, self-confidence, organization, responsibility, independence, perseverance, career orientation, and emotion regulation. In general, mechanisms that supported participants’ learning of outcomes included experiential learning, camp as separate time and space, camp schedules, the role of counselors, communal living, safe and supportive environments, and diversity of people. The implications for camp staff include furthering their programming efforts by placing an emphasis on the mechanisms that elicit academic and workplace readiness. With intentional effort, summer camp can be an important setting for youth to learn valuable skills that are beneficial for them to succeed in academics and work.

scholarly journals Developmentof problem solving abilities of grades 5–8 at Kangaroo summer camp

2013 ◽  
Vol 54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Romualdas Kašuba ◽  
Regina Rudalevičienė
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Summer Camps

In the presented article some problems especially suitable for useful solution on Kangaroo summer camps are presented and discussed.

scholarly journals A rationale for the use of anthropometric measurements and bioelectrical impedance analysis as efficacy criteria for summer camp healthcare

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-95 ◽  
Author(s):  
MYu Gavryushin ◽  
OV Sazonova ◽  
DO Gorbachev ◽  
LM Borodina ◽  
OV Frolova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Skeletal Muscle ◽  
Bioelectrical Impedance Analysis ◽  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Bioelectrical Impedance ◽  
Impedance Analysis ◽  
Anthropometric Measurements ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Efficacy Criteria

The proportion of obese and overweight children is alarmingly high. This dictates the need for promoting healthy lifestyle and eating habits in children. Summer camps provide a wide range of activities to improve children’s health. However, methods used to assess children’s nutritional status during a camp session need to be analyzed in depth, and a rationale should be provided for the use of bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) and anthropometric measurements as efficacy criteria for summer camp healthcare. We examined 125 boys and 221 girls aged 8–15 years spending their summer holidays at 3 different camps. Measurements were taken twice: on days 1 and 2 upon arrival to a camp and 2 days before leaving for home. In each camp, both positive and negative health weight dynamics were observed. The overall weight dynamics in children from camps 1 and 2 were statistically insignificant (p = 0.415 and p = 0.585), in contrast to camp 3 where those changes were significant (p = 0.025). BIA revealed that less than 44.34% of children had gained skeletal muscle mass during their stay at the camp, whereas weight loss was associated with both decreased fat and skeletal muscle masses. BIA confirms the results of anthropometric measurements and also provides information about the diet offered to children and their level of physical activity. Therefore, the use of anthropometric measurements and BIA could be an informative method for assessing the efficacy of healthcare in summer camps.

Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity and Step Count Compilation for Elementary-Aged Youth Participating in Summer Camp Activities

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zachary Wahl-Alexander
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Weight Gain ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Vigorous Physical Activity ◽  
Excess Weight ◽  
Step Count ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Step Counts ◽  
Residential Camp

The summer months have recently been identified as a time of the year when children gain excess weight. Despite contrary beliefs, youth are more susceptible to weight gain and fitness losses during this time. Summer camps have been identified as a possible solution to reduce declines in overall health during these months. The purpose of this study was to establish expected step counts and moderate to vigorous physical activity (MVPA) values for a variety of activities in one residential camp. Participants included 188 campers (M age = 8.7). Sessions included a variety of invasion, target, net/wall and fitness activities. Step counts and MVPA were tracked across 51 days, incorporating 839 activity sessions using a NL–1000 (New Lifestyle Inc., Lee Summit, MO, USA) accelerometer to track campers’ activity. Means and steps/minute were calculated for each activity. Invasion games represented the greatest opportunity for campers to engage in physical activity. Findings are useful for researchers and practitioners to evaluate physical activity and MVPA at camp settings.

Musical Theatre at Girls’ Jewish Summer Camps

2019 ◽  
pp. 225-248
Author(s):  
Stacy Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Musical Theatre ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Orthodox Jewish ◽  
Arts And Crafts ◽  
Jewish Women ◽  
Stephen Sondheim ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Theatre Production

In the summer musicals take place in the tiny, insular, homogenous culture of girls’ non-Orthodox Jewish summer camps in Maine. Each of these summer camps was founded by Jewish women—all early twentieth-century progressive educators—for socioeconomically privileged Jewish girls. Since the early 1900s, girls who attend the summer camps have participated in theatre as a required activity alongside swimming, volleyball, and arts and crafts, so musical theatre shapes their experiences in profound ways. This chapter visits four of these summer camps in the same state where Stephen Sondheim spent many summers at Androscoggin, an all-boys’ Jewish summer camp. Over the course of their years at camp, most girls perform in seven musicals and see forty more. In this consciously created community, the excitement, pressure, and camaraderie of musical theatre production creates an even more intense bubble in its midst.

Employer Perceptions of Seasonal Summer Camp Employment

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Richmond ◽  
Jim Sibthorp ◽  
M. Deborah Bialeschki
Keyword(s):  
Emerging Adults ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Specific Work ◽  
Work Experiences ◽  
Social Emotional ◽  
Job Experience ◽  
Employer Perceptions ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Opportunities For Promotion

Every year summer camps employ over 1.5 million mostly emerging adults to staff primarily their summer seasonal programs. Considerable literature exists on the importance of education, career-related experiences, and interpersonal and intrapersonal skills, but little is known about employer perceptions of work experiences not aligned with a job candidate’s career, like seasonal summer employment. More specifically, almost no research exists on the value of seasonal summer camp work from the perspective of hiring professionals in fields outside of the camp industry. Therefore, the primary purpose of this study was to understand how hiring professionals from a variety of industries view seasonal camp employment. Specifically, the study sought to identify the effects of promotion, industry-specific work, and gender on likelihood of interviewing the candidate. A secondary purpose was to better understand how hiring professionals view social-emotional learning (SEL) skills commonly associated with summer camp work. This study included a panel sample of 327 hiring professionals from a variety of industries. Analysis of quantitative and qualitative data resulted in three major conclusions about seasonal summer camp employment: (a) job advancement and promotion at camp were important to employers, (b) industry-related job experience was the most important factor when evaluating job candidates, and (c) several SEL skills important to the modern workplace could be attributed to working at camp and were highly desired by hiring professionals. The findings have several implications for camp leaders. First, when retaining camp staff from summer to summer, opportunities for promotion are valuable to both staff and future employers. Second, since industry-related experience matters most to hiring professionals, camps may need to accept (a) that staff leave after one or two summers to seek job-related experience or (b) that they may need to be more creative in helping their best staff “job craft” their position to align with employees’ career aspirations. Third, camp leaders may want to emphasize the opportunity to develop SEL skills and capacities while recruiting new staff.

Evaluating Summer Camps 1979 — Problems of Measuring Behaviour Change in Children

1981 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Gerrard ◽  
Terry Heins
Keyword(s):  
Behaviour Change ◽  
Social Behaviour ◽  
Goal Attainment ◽  
Peer Group ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Target Complaints ◽  
Target Behaviour ◽  
Child Psychiatric ◽  
Child Psychiatric Disorder

To develop experience in assessing behaviour change in children, sixteen children attending week-long summer camps run by the Department of Psychiatry, Adelaide Children's Hospital in January 1979, were assessed every two months for six months. Target complaints, symptom checklists and measures of social behaviour were chosen as being most likely to be sensitive to behaviour change. Hypotheses about the summer camp experience having an influence on severity of target behaviour problems, symptoms indicating child psychiatric disorder, peer group participation, mastery of aggression and development of conscience and social values were not convincingly supported. Agreement between camp staff and parents rating the children's social behaviour using the same instrument a week apart was poor. Simple ranked adjective scales have advantages over goal attainment scaling for rating target complaints. Implications for treatment evaluation in child psychiatry are discussed.

Burnout Among Summer Camp Staff Supporting People with Intellectual Disability and Aggression

2012 ◽  
Vol 50 (6) ◽  
pp. 479-485 ◽  
Author(s):  
Clara Ko ◽  
Yona Lunsky ◽  
Jennifer Hensel ◽  
Carolyn S. Dewa
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Disability ◽  
Summer Camp ◽  
Maslach Burnout Inventory ◽  
Personal Accomplishment ◽  
Summer Camps ◽  
Demographic Information ◽  
Staff Members ◽  
Summer Camp Staff ◽  
Survey Results ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract Studies have shown that there is an association between exposure to people with intellectual disability who are aggressive and burnout in the staff who support them. Little is known, however, about the experience of summer camp staff who work with this population. This study examined the relationship between aggression and burnout in 169 staff members working at summer camps in Ontario, Canada. The questionnaire used included demographic information, exposure to aggression (frequency and severity), and the Maslach Burnout Inventory—Human Services Survey. Results showed that summer camp staff was exposed to frequent and relatively severe aggression. Severe exposure was associated with higher levels of emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment. Given that summer camp staff is likely to be exposed to at least some aggression in their summer job, and that this aggression is associated with burnout, greater attention should be paid to training and supporting staff for when aggression occurs.

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