ASAP’s online abuse-prevention program helps Jewish summer camps minimize incidents of abuse and ensure that campers that have been abused in the past will be identified, supported, and guided towards professional care.

The program offers staff screening guidelines, abuse-prevention protocol, intervention protocol for camp directors, an innovative animated online counselor-training program, discussion guide, and prevention guidelines for parents.

Details on the entire program: https://asap.care/summer-camps/

The counselor training: https://asap.care/summer-camps/counselors/

The director’s guide can be downloaded below.

Use this resource guide to “Camp-ify Your Shabbat” and add that special camp touch! The short guide includes a dinner prep checklist, inspiration for menu, ambiance, activities, rituals and some other ideas to get your creative juices flowing. Created from a recent collaboration between OneTable and FJC to support camp alumni engagement through hosting OneTable Shabbat dinners, with additional help from Trybal Gatherings.

The FJC Playbook: Enhancing Jewish Impact At Your Day Camp

As part of the Jewish Coaching Project, funded by UJA-Federation of New York, Foundation for Jewish Camp has created a workbook to help day camp leaders (and their teams) generate observations and questions about Jewish programming and the Jewish impact of day camp. By completing the questions in this guide, day camp leaders will be able to take the first steps toward developing a strategic plan to create an excellent Jewish experience at their camps for campers, families, and staff.

Download the Workbook

Resources from Jewish Coaching Project Camps

As a result of their work within the Jewish Coaching Project, New Country Day Camp, 92Y Camps, and Camp Friedberg developed new resources to enhance the Jewish experience of their campers and staff. These resources may provide inspiration to other day and residential camp professionals seeking to enhance their Jewish impact.

Download New Country Day Camp’s Jewish Culture Guide

Download 92 Y Camp’s Mensch Sticker

Download Camp Friedberg’s Judaic Themes (Draft)

Download the M³ (Making Meaningful Moments) Webinar

Jewish Coaching Project is generously funded by the UJA Federation of New York.

Bob Ditter. How do we draft and enforce policies on camper relationships or sexual behavior at camp? How do camps create and share these policies with their communities? What are the best practices to keeping camper behavior—particularly teenagers—safe, and appropriate? For the third FJC Leaders All Year webinar, Bob Ditter, M. Ed., LCSW, structured a discussion of policy on sexual behavior at camp, and how camp professionals can develop policies that limit risk and liability and strengthen Jewish values. These attachments were discussed during his presentation.

Download:Bob Dittter-BrightRedLine , Bob Ditter-FJCTeenSexHandouts

We have created this online resource guide to share information and resources which will help you feel more confident in your work with children with disabilities. Camp directors may want to take a look at sections pertaining to inclusive camping for people with disabilities, successful inclusion in Jewish summer camp, inclusive camps, specific disabilities and related activities, communicating with parents, staff training, and people first language. Inclusion Coordinators will find it particularly useful to access certain materials like intake forms, people first language and general information on inclusive camping before the summer, while other materials like staff training (role-plays, sensitivity activities, values based on Jewish texts, and people first language) may be useful while camp is in session. Counselors, division heads, inclusion coordinators, program directors and camper care teams may find such tools as social stories, visual schedules, and tips on managing camper behavior, and speaking to the bunk about inclusion and disabilities to be particularly useful. FJC is grateful for the generous support of UJA-Federation of New York ‘ Neshamot Fund, and our partner, the Ramah Camping Movement, on development of this guide. Through the collaborative efforts of Lisa Tobin, Director of Disabilities Initiatives at Foundation for Jewish Camp (FJC) and Howard Blas, Director of the National Ramah Tikvah Network, this co-branded resource has emerged. In an effort to get useful training material in the hands of camp personnel in time for the 2015 camp season, Lisa and Howard, their teams at FJC and Ramah, and many helpful colleagues in the disabilities camping field have worked tirelessly to collect, organize, and bring online the many useful resources in this guide. It is our sincere hope that this guide will evolve through use and feedback, as a regularly updated, hands-on, online resource assisting you in all aspects of your work with campers with disabilities. Please use the form below to submit comments and subscribe to updates.

Download: Disabilities Resource Guide_FINAL_USE_THIS_VERSION_ONLY