Bonuses for certain experience and credentials. Free room and board. Also, once weekly, staff have one 36-hour period off. Our specialized training includes professional workshops in counseling techniques and a range of leadership and counseling issues. We enjoy our 12-day orientation, setting up program areas and visiting coastal Maine as we build a community among the staff.
All staff spend a day of staff training at our ropes course.
Additionally, staff members live in a cabin with one or two other counselors, and share responsibility for the care of a group of campers. We look for mature, creative, independent people who have interesting backgrounds and previous experience with children. Staff come from all over the U.S. as well as about 15 staff people from nations such as Australia, Sweden, Britain, Holland, etc. About 40 U.S. states and other countries were represented last summer. This is an active, creative group of children, oriented to our non-traditional camp values.