Topic(s):
Hiring, Partnerships, Recreation Programming, Workforce Development, Youth

Description:
Discover the ingredients and secrets used by Camp Fort Worth (Texas) to successfully operate a summer day camp at more than 20 locations within a single system, impacting more than 2,000 kids annually. This session will unpack the yearlong planning steps from the initial planning meetings to after-camp debriefing. We will walk through the process from the high-level framework of strategically designed committees, leveraging partners and staff, decision-making processes, and return on investment philosophies and plans to camp operational concepts like lesson plans, field trips and much more in a streamlined fashion. This session would be particularly effective for staff who interact with summer day camp planning at all levels in cities with camps operating at multiple sites simultaneously.

Speaker(s):
Eric Lopez, CPRE
Maxime Pierre, CPRP
Sheri Endsley, CPRP
Delana Jones