A Module Based Teaching Program

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Youth Empowerment Training
YET

• A Module Based Teaching Program
• 3rd Week of July

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YETI Camp Name Ideas
Require a Name for Camp

• Camp Leadership

• YETI Camp

• ??

Name for Tract System

• Upper/Lower

• Beginning/Advanced

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Module Based Teaching

• 2 Tracts
• Lower Tract for new YETI
• Upper Tract for YETI with Experience
• Some Modules are for everyone

• Some Free Choice Modules
• Lower Tract have Basic Plan detailed for them
• Upper Tract can choose to attend specialized
  modules or attend review with Lower Tract

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Modules
From YETI Review
New to Camp

• Safe Sanctuaries
• Child Abuse Prevention
• Assets
• Taking Care of Yourself
• Positive Talk
• Basic Listening Skills

• Large Group Games
• Small Groups
• Listening Skills/One-to-ones
• Working with a theme
• Safety
• Being a Cabin Counselor
• Defragging
• Leadership Skills/Specialized Training

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Specialized Modules
Leadership Specialization
Lead Counselor Skills
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Other Possible Modules

• Guided Meditation
• High Ropes
• Archery Leading
• Working Within a Theme
• Games
• Decorations
• Arts and Crafts
• Bible Verses
• Small Group Discussions

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Interaction with Camp Discovery

• Field Trip
• Giving Breaks to Counselors
• Two YETIs for every one counselor
• Large Group Games
• Some meals with kids some alone
• Never at Bedtime
• Set up own routine for bedtime
• Worship? Campfires? Songs? Other Times?

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Sleeping/Eating/Teaching Arrangements
Sleeping and Eating
Teaching Areas

• Eating Same time as Discovery
• Sometimes with Kids
• Sometimes alone in back of Dining Hall
• Bedtime after Discovery
• Boys 1st floor of Cary
• Girls 2nd floor of Cary
• Counselors in Rooms?

• Silverthorn Chapel
• Dining Hall
• Trails
• Fields
• Helgesson Hall
• Hollidge Hall
• Amphitheatre
• Off Camp Training?

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Leadership/Camp Structure

• Directors
• Bobby Langhorne
• Lee Ann Kolker
• Pastor
• Music
• Age of Kids
• Entering 10th- entering 12th
• Number of Kids
• About 25
• Boys and Girls evenly split
• Try for all over Conference

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Break Down of Expected Youth
Boys Girls
Shasta District 5 3
Golden Gate District 8 12
San Jose District 11 19
Bay View District 5 3
Nev-Sierra District 2 3
Fresno District 4 7
Delta District 6 7
Cal-Nev Conference 41 54
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Break Down of Expected Youth
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Leadership

• All Adults
• Ask Former CIT Leaders
• Matt Schlager
• Lisa Brown
• Lisa Nasby
• Nancy Deis
• Erik Day
• Others?

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Foreseeable Problems

• Worship
• Need all adult counselors
• Interns who were counselors last year
• Hormones

• How much Authority does a YETI have?
• Need Some to Effectively provide breaks to
  Counselors
• How much authority does a Discovery counselor
  have over the YETIs?