Octorara - Parent Summer Camp Guide - 2018
Welcome to Summer Camp 2018! For more than 110 summers, the YMCA of Greater Brandywine has helped kids enjoy their summer through our core values: caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. For kids, YMCA day camp is a fun way to enjoy the summer and for parents it’s a way to give children a positive experience that builds character. In YMCA day camps, kids will have fun making new friends, learning new skills, and growing in self-resilience. Communication and parent involvement are essential for a positive camp experience. Please make every attempt to read the literature posted at your child(ren)’s camp site, the electronic newsletters, and any information that is sent home. Your understanding and cooperation with camp policies will ensure a smooth summer for all of our children. This guide provides useful camp information. If you need additional information, have questions, or would like to discuss your child’s camp experience, please feel free to contact the camp program director. We look forward to serving your family this summer!
Welcome to Summer Camp 2018! For more than 110 summers, the YMCA of Greater Brandywine has helped kids enjoy their summer through our core values: caring, honesty, respect, and responsibility. For kids, YMCA day camp is a fun way to enjoy the summer and for parents it’s a way to give children a positive experience that builds character. In YMCA day camps, kids will have fun making new friends, learning new skills, and growing in self-resilience.
Communication and parent involvement are essential for a positive camp experience. Please make every attempt to read the literature posted at your child(ren)’s camp site, the electronic newsletters, and any information that is sent home. Your understanding and cooperation with camp policies will ensure a smooth summer for all of our children.
This guide provides useful camp information. If you need additional information, have questions, or would like to discuss your child’s camp experience, please feel free to contact the camp program director. We look forward to serving your family this summer!
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YMCA of Greater Brandywine<br />
<strong>Parent</strong> Survival <strong>Guide</strong> and Handbook<br />
Welcome to <strong>Summer</strong> <strong>Camp</strong> <strong>2018</strong>! For more than 110 summers, the YMCA of Greater<br />
Brandywine has helped kids enjoy their summer through our core values: caring,<br />
honesty, respect, and responsibility. For kids, YMCA day camp is a fun way to enjoy<br />
the summer and for parents it’s a way to give children a positive experience that builds<br />
character. In YMCA day camps, kids will have fun making new friends, learning new skills,<br />
and growing in self-resilience.<br />
Communication and parent involvement are essential for a positive camp experience.<br />
Please make every attempt to read the literature posted at your child(ren)’s camp site,<br />
the electronic newsletters, and any information that is sent home. Your understanding and<br />
cooperation with camp policies will ensure a smooth summer for all of our children.<br />
This guide provides useful camp information. If you need additional information, have<br />
questions, or would like to discuss your child’s camp experience, please feel free to contact<br />
the camp program director. We look forward to serving your family this summer!<br />
Mission Statement<br />
To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind,<br />
and body for all.<br />
YMCA Core Values<br />
The YMCA of Greater Brandywine is committed to a value-based character development<br />
curriculum. Teaching of the following core values is incorporated into all youth activities:<br />
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Caring: Interest and concern - including compassion, friendliness, generosity,<br />
kindness, love, mercy.<br />
Honesty: Fairness of conduct and adherence to facts - including sincerity,<br />
truthfulness, honor, forgiveness, moderation, orderliness.<br />
Respect: Special regard for self and others - including assertiveness,<br />
consideration, courtesy, gentleness, unity, tolerance, humility.<br />
Responsibility: Moral, legal, and mental accountability - including courage,<br />
determination, helpfulness, justice, reliability, loyalty, self-discipline, obedience,<br />
cleanliness.<br />
Character Value Expectations<br />
In keeping with the YMCA mission and character values of caring, honesty, respect and<br />
responsibility, appropriate behavior is expected of all participants in YMCA programs.<br />
Respectful interactions with program participants and YMCA staff are at the core of the<br />
YMCA mission and essential to having a successful program experience. Even non-YMCA<br />
patrons are also part of our camp experiences and need to follow our character value<br />
expectations.
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