Training must be given to staff to help them recognize these signs of potential risk, and camps must be ready to provide interventions to provide support to campers or staff members who fit the profile. This is a great topic for staff training, or perhaps a good place in your staff agenda to invite mental health professionals from your community for input. There are some ways in which camps have the potential of an advantage over schools. A greater level of supervision. Campers generally don t come to camp with rage already at the boiling point in relation-ships between campers or campers and staff.
Counselors are with campers through the entire day.
Observation time is not limited to fifty-minute increments. Of course, there are some challenges. Staff are young. They do not always have experience in recognizing negative behaviors in persons they supervise. Staff may sense that asking for help is a sign of weakness.