While doing so, it is equally important that camp staff not lose focus – camp is a place for youth to have fun with peers – to feel supported and understood, and to feel part of a passionate community. Good luck!

This presentation is intended to be a general guide that will help you create a thorough staff training tool for your camp. It is not intended to be a comprehensive resource or to fully cover the topic. We hope you will take this presentation and adapt it so that it fits your camp’s specific needs and meets the guidelines established for the safe and effective operation of your program.

• This presentation is intended to be a general guide that will help you create a thorough staff training tool for your camp. It is not intended to be a comprehensive resource or to fully cover the topic. We hope you will take this presentation and adapt it so that it fits your camp’s specific needs and meets the guidelines established for the safe and effective operation of your program.

• Each diabetes camp operates under detailed policies and procedures that follow Board of Health and national accreditation standards that ensure the health and safety of children with diabetes. It is essential that camp staff be trained according to your camp’s policies and procedures. Staff should be encouraged to carefully review materials before arriving at camp, participate fully in pre-camp training, ask questions and use good judgment as they provide diabetes management supervision and educate youth with diabetes at camp.

• While doing so, it is equally important that camp staff not lose focus – camp is a place for youth to have fun with peers – to feel supported and understood, and to feel part of a passionate community. Good luck!