Summer Programs: Guides and Resources

POST Resources

• Defining your camp needs
• Evaluating programs:  questions and considerations
• Program selection and the content of POST camp profiles
• Regulating and accrediting summer camps and programs in Massachusetts
• Learning more about camp counselors
• Exploring camp costs
• Partnering with summer camps on behalf of your child with special needs
  • Preparing the Camp
  • Matching with the Right Counselor and Peer Group
  • Preparing Your Child

Other Resources

• Information about Recreational Camps in Massachusetts: Questions and Answers for Parents (pdf), published by the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Center for Environmental Health and the Community Sanitation Program.
  
  
• Eyes on Bullying: What YOU Can Do to Prevent and Stop Bullying at Camp, by Kim Storey. Camping Magazine, May 1, 2010.