Each summer all of our staff participate in an intensive training and orientation program to enable them to take the best care possible of your children.

Our Unit Heads and Program Directors go through a week long training that involves: conflict resolution, supervision skills, behavior modification, safety and security training and more.

Our counselors and specialists participate in a nine day training that includes: the mission and goals of camp, stages of child development, conflict resolution, evening programming planning and much, much more.

We strive to train our staff and afford them opportunities to improve their skills throughout the non-summer months as well.  In addition to the intensive training our counselors participate in during our staff orientation, many of them have been selected to participate in high level training throughout the year. 

This year we are proud to say that more than 25 of our counselors have been chosen to participate in one of three esteemed Fellowship programs that proved training throughout the year:

Olim Fellowship – a two-year fellowship of advanced Jewish Leadership training for 1^st and 2^nd year returning counselors.  Together with counselors, directors and faculty from many other Union for Reform Judaism camps, the participants develop as leaders in camp and in the world in general. The program is also designed to help staff transition from being Machon to Staff and as they graduate high school and move on to college. A generous grant by the Foundation for Jewish Camping funds this program.

Achva Fellowship – a fellowship that provides advanced counselor training for second year members of our Israeli staff. Staff members are selected to participate in a number of weekend seminars with professional training staff and develop special programs to bring back to camp.