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Residential Summer Camp Counselor Retention Rates Implications And Recommendations For Boys & Girls Clubs Of Metro-Denver’S Gates Camp, Molly J. Mcphee
Residential Summer Camp Counselor Retention Rates Implications And Recommendations For Boys & Girls Clubs Of Metro-Denver’S Gates Camp, Molly J. Mcphee
International Development, Community and Environment (IDCE)
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Denver’s Gates Camp is a residential summer camp in Ward, Colorado. There has been an observed and verified trend of a lack of returning staff, despite staff members’ expressed positive experiences as a camp counselor. Returning staff improve the quality of programming for youth, by building upon their skills gained the previous summer and sharing their knowledge of the camp environment, culture and traditions with new staff. Through the use of a survey, completed by counselors who worked at Gates Camp between the summers of 2011 and 2016, trends as to why individuals choose …