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The success of your camp’s emotional/behavioral management program doesn’t start at staff training – it starts in the fall, when you review and re-evaluate your policies, procedures, and paperwork. If that sounds tedious, we promise it won’t be!
Join Emily Golinsky to take a deep dive into the behind-the-scenes pieces of work that form the foundation for successful summers. We’ll look at things such as:
We’ll also dig into examples of complicated behavioral situations that arose locally this past summer and how specific language and policy elements will assist with resolving those challenges. Bring your situational examples and your existing forms, policies, and procedures!
Francesca Korbas, Esq, is a former practicing special education attorney and civil rights investigator, with a deep understanding of inclusivity as it relates to youth with differing abilities. Francesca will also share information and recommendations for camps related to The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (the precursor of ADA), and more that will help you better understand what your camp can (and maybe can’t) do. Francesca will provide guidance on how to successfully connect school year supports and IEP planning to camp inclusivity planning.
You’ll leave feeling energized and ready to edit your emotional/behavioral fine-print (and not-so-fine-print) in preparation for the Summer of 2025!
This seminar will be beneficial for staff at both day and overnight camps who work on the administrative/policy aspects of your camp’s behavior management programs. Multiple staff per camp are welcome to attend.
Check-in will start at 9:30 am, with the program kicking off at 10:00 am.
Lunch will be provided and you will earn 5 CECs for your participation in the seminar.
About our Presenters:
Emily Golinsky, Bright Moose Training LLC
Emily’s sessions get called “tremendously helpful,” “definitely not the same-old-same-old,” and “not to be missed–a reason to come to the conference!” Emily retired from a 15-year role as Executive Director at the therapeutically-based Camp Starfish (NH) to found Bright Moose, LLC (www.brightmoosetraining.com), which provides training, consultation, and PD for camps, schools and youth organizations nationwide. Emily is the VP for NHCamps and is a visitor, NCDW faculty, and facilitator for ACANE. She is a Special Education Advocate and MHFA Instructor, has a BS in Health Psych and MS in Camp Admin/Leadership, and is pursuing her Higher Ed Teaching Certificate through Harvard. Fair warning: she is an avid collector of terribly awesome puns.
Francesca Korbas, Francesca Korbas Esq. Consulting
Francesca is an attorney, a child advocate, a disability and civil rights compliance specialist, a mediator, and a relationship-builder.
She educates individuals and entities on how to comfortably and productively ensure access to individuals with differing needs through workshops, speaking engagements, and private consulting sessions. Francesca specializes in providing a visible path to equity and inclusivity by providing digestible, interactive guidance and long term skill-building supports that make entities and individuals unintimidated by disability, civil rights and educational compliance.
A former special education attorney and civil rights investigator, Francesca brings a deep understanding of the systems individuals and entities are up against and the overwhelm of information they are confronted with in ensuring compliance. Trained in mediation, Francesca brings an unbiased, curious and facilitating approach to her educational guidance and consulting services.
Francesca is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and Suffolk University School of Law. A licensed attorney, Francesca no longer formally represents clients and instead uses her background to empower and educate.
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