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Turbo-charge your staff training manual and boost the content delivery of crucial training modules by purchasing professionally crafted handouts from this constantly expanding and updated library. Best of all, 100% of the proceeds from handout sales is donated to camper scholarships, including the ACA's I Believe foundation, Tri-State's S.C.O.P.E. camperships, and Camp Belknap's Leaders' Scholarship Fund. (To search the handout list for a keyword, press Ctrl + F on your keyboard, type the word, and hit Enter.)
What's Here: Each of these 71 handouts is available for individual sale. They range in price from $4 to $40. You may purchase the entire library at an 80% discount for $350. Your purchase permits up to one year of unlimited duplication of this copyrighted material for your organization. Remember: All proceeds help send lower-income children to camp!
How to Find What You Want: Below is an updated master list of handouts, arranged in alphabetical order. (To search the list for a keyword, press Ctrl + F on your keyboard, type the word, and hit Enter.) Once you have decided on a collection of handouts you wish to purchase, proceed to the purchase page.
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ADD/ADHD at Camp Hyperactive, impulsive, and distractible campers pose unique challenges for staff and campers alike. This detailed handout provides a clear set of effective strategies to use with campers who have symptoms of ADD/ADHD. Case studies prompt realistic discussion. Last Updated: 2009. Three pages. $30. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Advanced Staff Supervision When experienced staff are promoted to supervisory positions at camp, they face the double challenge of having zero formal managment training and becoming a boss of their peers. This handout clearly outlines five principles of supervisory success: Prepare, Encourage, Evaluate, Participate, and Learn. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Becoming a Youth Development Professional Day and overnight camps are powerful, positive developmental experiences for children. This honest handout explains how staff transition from focusing on themselves to focusing on the needs of the young people they serve. Seven sobering and powerful principles. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Classic Problem Solving Classic problem solving is a powerful way to use the group's wisdom to find a solution that works for everyone. This handout provides the three-step fundamental conflict resolution skills camp staff can use to solve real problems. Includes three realistic case studies. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Collaborative Problem Solving Extend staff skills beyond the standard problem-solving rubric of identification and brainstorming. Collaborative problem solving assesses others' needs and their skills deficits to help solve problems durably. This "must have" set of new tools is a key to smooth leadership. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Coping With the Death of a Camper: Essential Guidelines for Directors It's hard to imagine a more tragic or difficult event at camp than the death of a camper. This detailed resource assists in planning for the unthinkable and will help you and your camp community cope with the tremendous emotional and professional fallout, should a camper die. Last Updated: 2009. Four pages. FREE. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Coping With Loss: A Guide to Assisting Campers When a camper dies, staff are put in the painful and complex position of grieving the loss themselves and simultaneously helping the surviving campers cope. This concise booklet will guide them through this dual leadership responsibility with compassion and grace. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. FREE. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Cutting at Camp The best resource available on the What, Who, and Why of self-mutilation at camp. Ten principles of care will serve as the foundation for your camp's policy on responding to campers who cut. Includes four provocative case studies for discussion, along with questions for thought. Last Updated: 2009. Three pages. $30. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Design a Successful CIT/LIT Program Preliminary questions and an outline of ten perennial problems associated with internal leadership development serve as the basis for solution-focused design on this compact handout. Best used as the basis for an off-season seminar with your senior staff and leadership director. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Designing Assessment Tools for Camp Rapidly guides you though an exploration of different assessment techniques, including observation, inquiry, and experimentation. What follows are key questions and examples to guide your design of a parent satisfaction survey, a camper survey, or any other assessment tool. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Developmental Characteristics A basic template to use as an outline for discussion of physical, social, emotional, cognitive, and spiritual development in 5-7-year-olds, 8-10-year-olds, 11-13-year-olds, and 14-16-year olds. Designed to be supplemented with your own expertise and staff input. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $4. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Difficult Parents: Working with Overwhelmed, Anxious, Bossy, Defiant, and Unhappy Moms & Dads This essential handout summarizes the typology of difficult parents, along with realistic and clever ways to respond...all without compromising your campers' best interests. Remember...campers aren't our only clients. Partnering with parents is an indispensible component of a successful season. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Do You Want a Spanking? ...and Other Stupid Questions Grown-Ups Ask This candid, lighthearted outline of silly questions that stressed out adults ask children helps youth leaders gain insight into the ways they respond to misbehavior. Sure to prompt laughter and discussion, this packet also includes a Mad-LibTM style small group exercise. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Dragons to Darlings: Working with Campers Who Refuse to Participate Ever have campers who decide they are too cool for camp? Campers who are reluctant to participate for one reason or another? Here's the handout to use with your staff when preparing them to disengage from power struggles and use proven antidotes to recalcitrance and sighs. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Eating Disorders at Camp The best resource available on the What, Myths, and Why of eating disorders and disordered eating at camp. Seven principles of prevention and four provocative case studies provide just the right amount of information for a complete staff training workshop. Last Updated: 2009. Three pages. $30. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Effective Communication with Campers Diffusing emotional bombs is an essential prerequisite to problem-solving, but one that's often overlooked. Learn how to promote connection and understanding using example of communication with campers. Use in conjunction with "Staff" and "Worksheet" handouts. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Effective Communication with Fellow Staff Diffusing emotional bombs is an essential prerequisite to problem-solving, but one that's often overlooked. Learn how to promote connection and understanding using example of communication with fellow staff. Use in conjunction with "Camper" and "Worksheet" handouts. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Effective Communication Worksheet Diffusing emotional bombs is an essential prerequisite to problem-solving, but one that's often overlooked. Learn how to promote connection and understanding by devising your own examples from experience. Use in conjunction with "Basic," "Staff," and "Camper" handouts. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $4. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Effective E-Mail: A Primer for Parents It's time to end those e-mails from parents that look like an interoffice memo rather than a piece of personal, loving correspondence. Sure, e-mail is quick and easy, but that doesn't mean it has to be impersonal and brief. The perfect handout to put in parents' hands on opening day. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Emotional Leadership Style: Assessment This intriguing questionnaire, based on emotional intelligence and parenting research, will help your staff get a rapid glance at their emotional leadership style. Questions are customized to a camper population and easy to score with the "Interpretation" handout. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Emotional Leadership Style: Interpretation This scoring key accompanies the "Emotional Leadership Style: Assessment" questionnaire and provides insight for your staff into how their style of dealing with campers' emotions may be positively or negatively affecting their campers' health and development. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Enhancing Communication Between Campers and Staff This pithy booklet belongs on every staff member's bookshelf. Here are three listening skills and three self-expression skills that promote connection and understanding, along with suggestions for initiating conversations and responding to tough questions. Last Updated: 2009. Two page booklet. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships)
Equity and Diversity Celebrating the differences among people introduces a whole new level of enjoyment to the experience of day or overnight camp. It may be human to fear differences at first, but a skillful leader uses kindness, learning, and temperance to celebrate the differences that make us unique. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Gender Differences: Research Notes The perfect review before any gender-related workshop with your staff. Sections include: Cognitive & Social Development, Behavior & Physical Development, Psychopathology, Social Expectations, Stereotypes, Friendships, Leadership, and Moral Reasoning. A must-have. Last Updated: 2009. Four pages. $40. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Hazing at Camp Hazing at camp masquerades as "tradition." Seven principles of prevention combine education, healthy risk taking, and cultural changes to teach campers and staff to forgo abusive bonding rituals and promote wholesome unity. Includes four actual case studies for discussion. Last Updated: 2009. Three pages. $30. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Helping the Hypersensitive Child The last thing anxious campers need to hear is "Suck it up!" but many of your staff are unequipped to deal with sensitive, anxious, or histrionic children. This handout includes 12 terrific techniques for reducing anxiety, plus four case studies for ample discussion. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Hiring and Promoting Camp Leaders One hundred years in the making, this two-page handout cogently outlines a proven philosophy, hiring process, and promotion process that one camp has used to develop and maintain a 100% homegrown leadership. Includes references for reading and consultation. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Homesickness: Guidelines for Considering a Shortened Stay When intractable homesickness strikes (as it does every summer in a few campers), you need a set of sensitive procedures in place. Developed with a camp nurse who has two decades of experience, this set of guidelines is all you need to make wise choices about shortened stays. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Homesickness: Phenomenology and Intervention Distills cutting-edge, research-based information on the causes and symptoms of homesickness, as well as sample dialogues, training guidelines, and the most effective treatments staff can use. Bundle this handout with "Guidelines for Considering a Shortened Stay." Last Updated: 2009. Five pages. $40. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Inquire Before You Acquire: Buy Smart Trendy products are marketed to camping professionals without regard to their developmental benefit to children. Use the principles and practices on this unique handout to see how to purchase products that fulfill your camp's mission and help your campers grow. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Internal Leadership Case Studies Three classic cases that test your division heads' judgment. Without ample management skill, the leaders of the leaders at your camp may unwittingly incite a revolt. Prepare your senior staff to balance friendship with authority. Bundle with "Positive Leadership in the Workplace." Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Internal Leadership Development This two-page handout is divided into three parts: Concepts, Training Techniques, and Design. Included are goal-setting questions to enhance your program, six foundations of training homegrown leaders, and four essential design elements that keep your ILD program alive. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Internet Use Policies for Camps: Theory, Design, and Practice As youth development professionals, camp directors have an ethical obligation to proactively design and implement an Internet use policy for their staff. This in-depth series includes discussion points, sample policies, case studies, and parent resources. Last Updated: 2009. Seven pages. $40. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Junior Counselor / Unit Leader Scenarios Internal leadership development is one of the keys to cultivating a skilled staff, but unique conflicts and quandaries arise with junior staff interact with senior staff (especially when their ages are almost the same). Eight actual cases will spark intense, meaningful discussion. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Language and Culture Are your staff ready to respond when campers casually drop words like "gay" or "fag" or "wife beater"? The four provocative case studies on this handout push staff to create a culture at camp in which all campers and staff feel physically and emotionally safe. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships)
Leadership Pinnacles and Pitfalls Here are the top ten ways for a cabin leader or bunk counselor to succeed. Based on Chris's most popular staff training workshop, this roadmap to achievement also outlines the pitfalls that are byproducts of feeling overwhelmed, outclassed, or lazy. Ample space for notes. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Lifeguarding: Advanced Focus on Preparation, Proper Scanning, and Practice Inexperienced lifeguards are often poorly equipped, fail to scan properly, and neglect regular practice of emergency action plans. This crucial handout reviews preparation for work, scanning for distressed or drowning campers, and practice skills and drills. Includes a Lost Bather Drill flowchart. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Ma'am, Put Down the Phone and Step Away From the Child! We can't arrest our anxious and over-involved parents, but we can do lots to soothe their anxiety and curb their micromanagement impulses. This practical handout helps staff help parents prevent and manage their stress so you can get on with the business of running a camp. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
"Male" Call: How Men and Boys Provide Powerful Leadership at Camp Boys and men bring powerful leadership to their roles as campers and staff, but what about the corrosive side effects that can take hold, such as bullying, homophobia, and bravado? These case studies and guidelines help set boundaries and redirect misguided male behavior. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Managing Stress at Camp Beginning with notes on the human stress response and barriers to seeking support, this nuts-and-bolts guide to stress management includes ten time-tested techniques for transforming stress into positive energy. Help your staff stay on an even keel and prevent burnout altogether. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Mid-Season Motivator This clever "Letter to Self" forces staff to articulate personal and professional goals for the summer and closes with an opportunity for staff to write words of encouragement to themselves. To be completed prior to campers arrival and handed back for a mid-season boost. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Parental Anxiety and Summer Camp A basic outline to help you lead a focused discussion on the ways in which your pre-camp, in-camp, and post-camp contacts with parents and campers works to diminish the natural anxiety that parents feel when separated from their kids. An essential first step toward policy. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $4. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Peak Performance for Camp Directors New ecological models of leadership assume that powerful leaders fuse their ability guide groups with a profound understanding of the social context. See how this model applies to camp, then study 10 ways camp professionals cope with the stress of achieving peak performance. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Personal Value Responses Momentary impressions of situations and statistics (e.g., Kids today have fewer rules to follow) lead quickly into personal value responses (e.g., It's important to give kids safe boundaries). Use this handout along with scenarios from last summer to put values into action. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Positive Leadership in the Workplace Help your staff stop responding to negative behavior with more of the same. Learn to use a calm tone, effective praise, and a positive spin. Teach your staff to be part of the solution by taking initiative, returning favors, owning mistakes, and enlisting cooperation. A must-have. Last Updated: 2009. Four pages. $40. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
The Power of Positive Psychology Psychologists now recognize the power of capitalizing on people's signature strengths to promote authentic happiness and curb problematic behavior. This handout provides a conceptual map of positive psychology and a list of terrific camp-based activities to start using today. Last Updated: 2009. Three pages. FREE. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Providing Feedback Providing feedback to one's colleagues is an essential skill for leadership growth and development. This advanced handout describes how to preserve good relationships while providing clear feedback in ways that boost everyone's performance. Includes three realistic case studies. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Running Superior Activity Periods Key questions on this worksheet promote reflection about memorable activities, the ingredients for success, failed activities, and the factors that contributed to failure. Use as part of a staff training week workshop that gives all staff the chance to play and supervise activities. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $4. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Safe Touch Guidelines for Camp Staff Culled from the most up-to-date collection of guidelines provided by the ACA and a variety of youth development professionals, this sensible set of strategies has sections on Safe Touch, Discipline, Reporting, Coverage of Activities, Group Living, and Staff Relations. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. FREE. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Sample Evaluation: Assistant Division Head One of three sample reports available, this Assistant Division Head report asks a series of thirteen, focused, open-ended questions to target key areas of leadership, support, responsibility, and cooperation . Intended for a four-week evaluation period. To be customized for your camp. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Sample Evaluation: Junior Leader One of three sample reports available, this Junior Leader report focuses on a young staff member's performance in activity periods, at mealtime, at bedtime, in social interactions with campers and other staff, and in overall leadership skill. To be customized for your camp. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Sample Evaluation: Leader-in-Training One of three sample reports available, this Leader-in-Training report asks a series of twenty, focused, open-ended questions to target key areas of performance, initiative, and consistency. Intended for a two-week evaluation period. To be customized for your camp. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Samson and Delilah's Missed Opportunity A simple outline to get your staff talking about boys' and girls' development, behavior, psychopathology, social expectations, stereotypes, and leadership. Use in conjunction with "Gender Differences: Research Notes" to provide rich discussion and help stereotypes fade. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $4. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Self-Analysis of Your Behavior in Groups An especially useful handout for young staff or new hires, this exercise stirs thinking about behavior changes in different group settings. Promotes insight into competitiveness, concentration, creativity, and integrity. Includes an end-write for large-group discussion. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Seven Habits of Highly Effective Camps What exactly separates an effective camp from an ineffective camp? How do mission-driven and market-driven camps differ? Based on years of experience working with hundreds of camps, this handout contains key elements, benefits, and action plans for each of the habits. Last Updated: 2009. Three pages. $30. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Situational Leadership Contextual analysis and adaptation are essential for flexible leadership. Prevent your staff from pigeonholing themselves into one or another kind of leadership. Use this basic outline with film clips or case studies of leadership to challenge staff to think outside the box. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $4. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Skillful Discipline The biggest concern that every new camp staff has is that the children won't listen and follow directions. This innovative handout illustrates the six prevention strategies to promote good behavior, plus six easy behavior management strategies to use for any misbehavior. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Stop Yelling: Get the HINT Campers' minor, annoying misbehaviors can get under counselors' skin and quickly burn them out. This inventive handout provides easy alternatives to yelling and other energy-draining reactions by introducing seven "HINT" (High Impact Nominally Taxing leadership) strategies. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Substance Use: Designing Your Camp's Policy Here is the first step toward bringing practice in-line with policy. Learn where along the policy spectrum your camp lies and consider nine different factors that influence your choice, from laws and liability to hiring and firing. Bundle with the two other "Substance" handouts. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Substance Use: Pros and Cons of Your Camp's Policy Once you have made an initial decision about what your camp's substance use policy is, you'll want to consider what other camp directors view as the pros and cons of that particular policy and other, closely related policies. Bundle with the two other "Substance Use" handouts. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Substance Use: Enforcing Your Camp's Policy Now that you have made an informed, thoughtful choice about your camp's substance use policy, you must turn your attention to how that policy is enforced. Here are essential elements of prevention and enforcement. Bundle with the two other "Substance Use" handouts. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Supervising Junior Staff Strong leaders may come from the camper ranks, but who among your supervisory staff is ready for all the immature and impulsive things junior leaders do? This vital handout prepares unit leaders and division heads to identify and respond skillfully to the ten most common mistakes junior leaders make. Last Updated: 2009. Two pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Things a "Problem Child" Needs to Hear A pithy summary of how to make campers feel powerful, competent, and emotionally safe, without hurting themselves or others in the process. This handout includes six areas to challenge staff creativity when working with defiant, aggressive, manipulative children. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Understanding and Preventing Bullying Dispels myths about bullying, including that bullies have low self-esteem. Provides key facts on the causes and consequences of bullying, camp-specific intervention techniques for bullies and targets, and a provocative page on bullying paradoxes sure to get your staff talking. Last Updated: 2009. Three pages. $30. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Understanding Behavior Allow staff to take a step back from the blizzard of "tips" and "techniques" they get during staff training week. This flow chart illuminates objective, environmental, cognitive, and biological causes of emotions and behaviors. An excellent piece for philosophical discussions. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Understanding Children's Secret Code Around difficult, confusing, evocative topics, children almost always speak "in code." The most powerful way to make your staff's job easier is by imbuing them with the decoding skills essential for connections. This handout best supplemented with film clips and case studies. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Values Can't Be Taught Based on the premise that leadership-by-example is the only viable technique for values transfer, this workshop outline guides participants though an examination of their own values, their historical origins, and the best methods for engendering these values in children. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $4. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Wise Use of Time Off Staff need to spend their time of wisely so when they're on duty they're ready for anything. If they return to camp exhausted or hung-over, they're likely to burn out quickly or make devastating mistakes. This handout explains a sensible approach to healthy time away from camp. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Workshop Evaluation Few professional consultants or staff trainers insist on collecting evaluations, but Chris does. Use this evaluation as a template for all your staff training needs. How can we improve without a willingness to listen to candid feedback on our own performance? Last Updated: 2009. One page. FREE. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
Writing Camp Jobs on Your Resume This is the single most-requested handout at staff training and conferences because most of your staff need to move on to other jobs. Help them feel good about the work they're doing at your camp by giving them helpful tips on professional presentation of their key responsibilities. Last Updated: 2009. One page. $10. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
You're Not Crazy...But Kids Think You Are Leading children effectively requires a profound understanding of the assumptions under which they operate. This handout series provides the basis for a staff training workshop that will ignite group discussion about the ways campers misperceive adults, the world, and themselves. Last Updated: 2009. Five pages. $20. (All donations go to camper scholarships.)
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