The Camp Counselor Program enables post-secondary students, youth workers, and teachers to share their culture and ideas with the people of the United States in camp settings throughout the country.

Camp Counselors must be:

• Sufficiently proficient in the English language to supervise and interact with American youth;
• A foreign post-secondary student, youth worker, teacher or individual with specialized skills; and
• At least 18-years-old.

Benefits

Financial value: Participants receive pay and benefits commensurate with those offered to their American counterparts at the camps.

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Camp Counselors will occasionally have to

• Perform non-counseling duties as part of camp life, but not serve as “staff.”
• For example, they cannot serve as administrator personnel, cooks or menial laborers such as dishwashers or janitors.