Health and Safety

The Camp has a nurse on site. She is available all day from 8am to 4:30pm. Each classrom has their own first aid kit as well as a mobile kit for trips. Counselors carry all immergency contact lists with them as well as a cell phone. 

While forty Head Counselors and Supervisory staff are certified in RTE (Responding to Emergencies) and CPR (Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation), we still employ at least twenty-two trained lifegards, whose training includes First Aid and CPR. As a part of their training each Head Counselor is also tought how to administer EpiPens. 

At the begining of each semester the camp will conduct a Lice check by a licensed lice check agency. 

As always, we keep parents, families and guardians informed of any camp developments. 

WHEN TO KEEP YOUR CHILD HOME FROM CAMP

Sometimes it is hard to tell if your child needs to go to camp or stay home. Here are some guidelines to help you make the best decision.

 1.      A temperature that is over 100 degrees.  Children should be fever free for at least 24 hours before sending your child to camp. (without anti-fever medication)

 2.      Vomiting and diarrhea within the past 24 hours.

 3.      A positive throat culture for strep: child should be on an antibiotic therapy for 24 hours before returning to camp.

 4.      A red eye with white or yellow eye drainage with matted or crusted eyelids after sleep.

 5.      A runny nose by itself is not necessarily cause to keep your child home, however, if the runny nose is accompanied by a headache or nausea or the child is too tired to concentrate, he/she is probably too ill to come to camp.

 6.      Any rash (unless determined to be non-communicable by physician)

 7.      Head Lice, until after the first treatment and checked by nurse to be without nits. 

 8.      Chickenpox, (Varicella) until all lesions have dried and crusted; usually 6 days after the onset of the rash.

 9.      Pertussis until 5 days of antibiotic therapy (which is to be given for a total of 14 days).

 10.  Impetigo (bacterial skin infection) until 24 hrs after treatment has been initiated.

IMPORTANT: These guidelines should help parents determine if their child should attend camp or other activities. Your child should look and behave like him/herself for 24 hours before returning to camp.  A sick child who returns to camp too soon is at risk for picking up other infections due to a lowered immunity, and is likely to infect other students and staff. All immunixations need to be up to date before campers come to camp.