Camp Counselors | YMCA of the USA
- About this Role
Calling all Role Models, come be part of a dynamic camp leadership team that is committed to delivering the best camp in Piscataway NJ!
Camp Description
Camp Lenape provides campers with opportunities to build lasting friendships, learn valuable lessons and build memories that will last a lifetime.
Job Description
Under the supervision and guidance of the Camp Director and/or Unit Leader, the Summer Camp Counselor is responsible for the guidance and safety of all the children in the summer camp program. The Summer Camp Counselor will implement programs, behaviors and activities that embrace the four core values of honesty, respect, caring and responsibility.
Qualifications
· Must have excellent decision-making skills, the ability to be a strong role model and an excellent communicator.
· Must have a positive attitude, enthusiasm and be able to work as part of a team.
· Must be at least 18 years of age.
· Previous experience working with children in a day or resident camp setting, childcare or related setting.
· Be able to demonstrate skills in motivating, games, athletics, crafts, songs, storytelling.
· Must have current CPR and First Aid – we’ll help you obtain these!
Essential Functions
1. Set examples in conduct and personal habits.
2. Assist with daily arrivals, dismissals and announcements.
3. Responsible for all equipment and supplies of the program, especially those in your use.
4. Knowledge of emergency procedures. Report all accidents/incidents to Director as soon as possible. Accurately complete and submit an accident form immediately.
5. Supervise children during activities, trips, and lunch, when in pool area and/or locker room.
6. Have complete knowledge of where all children in group are at all times.
7. Submit a daily activity plan and adhere to it.
8. Report difficult or unusual situations to your supervisor as soon as possible. If those concerns impact safety or the well-being of a camper, fellow staff member or yourself they must be reported immediately.
9. Implement activities for group including setting up, acquiring materials and clean up.
10. Accurately record daily attendance.
11. Participate with enthusiasm and motivate all children in group.
12. Discipline children in an appropriate manner when necessary following the Positive Discipline Guidelines.
13. Meet, greet, discuss and promote program content and children using parents in a manner that reflects a “Family Friendly” YMCA.
14. Adhere to YMCA “House Rules”.
15. Attend all department and/or YMCA staff meetings and trainings.
16. Be aware of your daily trip and have appropriate dress (ie: trip t-shirt, swimsuit and towel, etc.) *all staff are required to swim during swim trips.
17. Buddy checks
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All tasks will be carried out in a safe manner for employees/staff.
Public Health Sanitation & Safety Program
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Lenape | it’s.
.. What is the Lenape?
InterpretationTranslation
- Lenape
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Lenape Historic Settlement Area
Lenape
Lenape or Lenny-Lenape (European colonialists called them Delaware , English Delaware ) – American Indian people. It emerged as a tribal military association in the 17th century. to fight European settlers. The Lenape people still exist today in the states of Delaware and New York. The Delaware languages (Mansi and Uname) belong to the Algonquian languages.
In the works of J. F. Cooper, the Delaware are represented as heroes, in contrast to the “devious” Iroquois; such a characterization is not entirely consistent with historical reality.
By the time the Europeans arrived, the Lenape were a hunter-gatherer society, but with extensive use of agriculture.
They lived along the Delaware and Hudson rivers, as well as on Long Island. The Lenape developed highly sophisticated hunting methods, while agriculture was primitive, based on slash-and-burn, and their settlements were seasonal.0035 [1] The Lenape’s worst enemies were the Iroquois, although inter-tribal marriages occasionally occurred. Clan membership was inherited through the mother, while marriages were usually made with women outside the clan. The system of kinship and inheritance of the Lenape was so incomprehensible to patriarchal Europeans that they left numerous written testimonies about this people, albeit rife with errors and obscure places. Land usually belonged not to one person, but to a clan, and was used for hunting, fishing and agriculture.
For the first time, Europeans (Dutch) met with the Lenape at the beginning of the 17th century. The Lenape quickly mastered European metal agricultural implements.
Increased European demand for furs has caused the Lepane to harass too many beavers on the lower Hudson.
This led to the movement of Dutch trading posts, and a severe economic crisis began in the Lenape tribe. The Lenape were the first of the Indian tribes to conclude a treaty with the US government in 1788 (their enemies, the Iroquois, fought on the side of Great Britain during both wars of independence) [2] . Despite close cooperation with the government, the Lenape were not included in the Five Civilized Tribes, the level of development of which the Americans considered close to their own.
In the XIX century. the traveler Constantine Samuel Rafinesk published a “Chronicle of the Lenape” under the title “Valam Olum”; however, this chronicle is based solely on his notes, the original has never been found; perhaps the chronicle is fiction.
Currently, the Lenape are divided into several independent tribes, which in English are called Delaware.
In 1979, the Bureau of Indian Affairs included the Delaware in Oklahoma as part of the Cherokee Nation, since both peoples lived in the same area.
As a result of the ensuing outrage, the decision was reversed in 1996. After that, the Cherokee filed a lawsuit to cancel the recognition of the Delaware as an independent tribe. Notes
- ↑ 3Mark Kurlansky, The Big Oyster: History on the Half Shell, New York: Ballantine Books, 2006.
- ↑ Lenape Lady, Delaware Treaty, 1778
Literature
- Adams, Richard Calmit, The Delaware Indians, a brief history , Hope Farm Press (Saugerties, NY 1995) [originally published by Government Printing Office, (Washington, DC 1909)]
- Bierhorst, John. The White Deer and Other Stories Told by the Lenape . New York: W. Morrow, 1995. ISBN 0688129005
- Brown, James W. and Rita T. Kohn, eds. Long Journey Home ISBN 978-0-253-34968-2 Indiana University Press (2007).
- Burrows, Edward G. and Wallace, Mike, Gotham: A History of New York City to 1989 ISBN 0-19-514049-4 Oxford Univ.
They lived along the Delaware and Hudson rivers, as well as on Long Island. The Lenape developed highly sophisticated hunting methods, while agriculture was primitive, based on slash-and-burn, and their settlements were seasonal.0035 [1] The Lenape’s worst enemies were the Iroquois, although inter-tribal marriages occasionally occurred. Clan membership was inherited through the mother, while marriages were usually made with women outside the clan. The system of kinship and inheritance of the Lenape was so incomprehensible to patriarchal Europeans that they left numerous written testimonies about this people, albeit rife with errors and obscure places. 
This led to the movement of Dutch trading posts, and a severe economic crisis began in the Lenape tribe. 
As a result of the ensuing outrage, the decision was reversed in 1996. After that, the Cherokee filed a lawsuit to cancel the recognition of the Delaware as an independent tribe. 