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Registration for 2025 Satisfaction Insights will open on March 26. Please check this page for updates regarding the 2025 Satisfaction Insights requirements and pricing after March 11, 2025. Below is the content from last year’s SIs.
Registration is open from March 26 until April 11
The Day Camper Satisfaction Insights Surveys provide a look at what family and staff really think of everything—from programming to safety, and food to facilities. This in-depth professionally designed research tool helps camps pinpoint strengths and growth opportunities according to respondents’ feedback. By revealing potential areas for improvement, camp leadership can identify an action plan that will help them better serve campers, staff, and parents.
DCSI surveys help camps:
- Determine areas of strength for the camper experience.
- Identify areas of opportunity in programming, fundraising, facilities, marketing, retention, alumni, and more.
- Manage perceptions and expectations of camper families.
- Hear feedback from staff on how to improve their experience for better staff recruitment and retention
SI SPECIAL FEATURES:
- Write up to three fully customizable questions for each survey.
- Collect the email addresses of family and staff who have filled out the survey so you may do targeted outreach and/or an incentive program. Email addresses will be kept separate from survey answers.
- Administer a 3 question mid-summer pulse survey for staff, at no additional cost.
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Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) designs and administers both DCSI and DCSSI to provide you with timely customer service. FJC continues to subsidize the cost to run the surveys.
If your camp is participating in an FJC program or receiving grant funding from us, you may be required to participate. Check the chart below.
Program/Grant | DCSI | DCSSI |
---|---|---|
Character Ambassador Stipend Program | Encouraged | Required |
Disabilities: Coaching & Scholarship | Required | Required |
Gottesman | Required | Encouraged |
FJC Scholarship Grants | Required | Encouraged |
Scaling Impact | Required | Required |
Teaching Israel at Camp | Required | Required |
Yashar | Required | Required |
Yedid Nefesh | Encouraged | Encouraged |
Yitro | Required | Required |
Cost of Participation
DCSI/DCSSI Instrument | Cost |
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DCSI Base Fee | $400 |
DCSSI Base Fee *Professionally designed surveys, real-time dashboards, and optional pre and post summer webinars to learn how to get the best data and use it to your advantage. | $400 |
Survey Combo (DCSI + DCSSI) *Utilize both surveys for the clearest view of your camp’s opportunities for growth, all at a reduced price. | $800 |
Come to our Day Camp SI Registration Power Hour for a real-time SI support session where you can get all your questions about the SI’s answered and even register while you’re on the call!
Satisfaction Insight Survey FAQs
When Should I Send My Surveys Out?
DCSI
We recommend sending the DCSI survey out to families whenever their time at camp is over. If a family is only enrolled in camp for session 1, send it to them at the end of session 1. If a family is attending sessions 1, 5, and 8, send it to them after session 8. You should only send out one survey per family, not per camper.
DCSSI Pulse
You should send the pulse survey to staff at the midpoint of the summer. If you do staff performance evaluations, we suggest sending this out before you do those to show staff that camp is interested in their feedback.
DCSSI
The DCSSI should go out to staff at the end of the summer. We suggest scheduling time to do it while staff are still physically at camp and provide a snack or treat.
What are the dashboards? What do they include?
The data dashboards display your camp’s data in real time throughout the summer as you receive feedback. You will be able to see key respondent demographics including gender, grade, and number of summers spent at camp.
What kinds of questions will the surveys ask families and staff to answer?
The DCSI will ask families to provide their reflections and satisfaction ratings with:
- The overall experience
- Camp programming & facilities
- The social emotional environment at camp
- Camp policies and communication
- Demographics
The DCSSI measures and provides insights regarding:
- How camp impacts staff skill development
- Work environment
- Camp leadership
- The social emotional environment at camp
- Satisfaction with camp policies and practices
- Quality of training and professional development
- Demographics