Because states vary so much on regulations, and not all camps are accredited, camp officials said it is imperative that parents ask camps about their counselor training programs and safety procedures.
Only about 35 counselor training programs currently offer such a course, and only two require all future counselors to take it, so it's fair to say there's room for improvement.
It's sometimes suggested counselor training programs do this voluntarily; sometimes I ask President Obama to require the training, and one of my last requests, to Michelle Obama, made ripples in the Washington Post.
The day camp is a beneficiary of Catholic Charities of the Archdiocese of New York, one of the seven local charities supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund, which provides money for the counselor-in-training program at the camp.
Carmen Alamo, a job counselor at a local employment training program, said of the working poor in this town that "they have all the barriers in their life: language, job skills, housing issues.
Murphy said she hopes meetings with a career counselor -- another requirement of the FoodShare training program -- can help point her in a new direction.
The program, funded by the California Community Foundation, is part of a national initiative to help young black and Latino men stay out of trouble, succeed in school and build careers by connecting them with mentors, tutors, counselors and job training programs.
The election in the First Legislative District pits Kevan M. Abrahams, the legislative Democrats' budget director, against Ricardo S. LaRosa, a Republican and career counselor for Hempstead Works, a federally funded job training program in Hempstead Town.
His counselor from the program, James Samuels, referred him to a job training program at the Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service, one of the seven local charities supported by The New York Times Neediest Cases Fund.
It's the first day of a training program that turns ex-addicts into drug counselors, and they're listening to an inspirational sermon.
Study counselors were trained using a modification of the WHO breastfeeding training program [20].
