TSCS PODCAST 4: Lean on Your Ideas
4 | Staff Recruitment: Lean on Your Ideas
In this series of episodes we’re taking a deep dive addressing how staff recruitment is needed more than ever and what the people around the camp community are doing about it.
Grab your party attire (there's a dress code, don't worry), this episode is chock full of the fun ideas that get your staff and community together and build it bigger. Jack Schott, Allison Klee and EmJ Juszczyk throw out many ideas on how to level up your TikTok game, recruiting staff older than 21 and getting your people involved.
The crew addresses how to get the most out of social media and starts planning several parties and get togethers for all ages. If you’re looking for a party planning team and radical recruitment within your existing community, this is the pod for you.
Producer EmJ’s takeaways:
Lean into the fun of recruitment
Lean on your ideas and then find the trends
Lean on your staff for help to recruit and to get the content
Lean with it.
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Show Notes:
From the pod:
Allison Klee
Allison Klee (she/her/hers) graduated from SUNY New Paltz summa cum laude in three years with a degree in Human Services. She is an honors program alumna and completed her thesis “The Benefits of Summer Camps for Underserved Youth: A Circle of Courage Framework,” in her senior year. She is currently pursuing her master’s degree in social work at SUNY Brockport and is a social worker intern at Flower City School #54 in the Rochester City School District.
She has worked at a nonprofit summer camp, Camp Stomping Ground, since 2016 and has fallen in love with the community, the vision, and – most of all – each camper she had a chance to interact with. This experience led to her interest in implementing restorative practices into more youth-centered spaces. As a result, Allison facilitates Restorative Justice trainings for professionals in the childhood development field such as camp directors, teachers, mental health counselors, along with other consulting work. You can also hear more about her work with restorative justice on the podcast, “Inspiring Radical Empathy.”
Allison also works as as community ambassador for 540WMain, Inc., a nonprofit focused on antiracist education and consulting.
To get in contact, email klee@stompingground.com
EmJ Juszczyk
Having spent her whole adult life in camp planning and programming, all EmJ knows is professionalism that is learned through yell-singing at campfires and giving board presentations on the importance of a 40 foot water slide.
After spending college summers at Camp Bob Cooper, EmJ served in various roles until she became the Camps and Program Director at Camp Happy Days, a non-profit camp for children with cancer and their families until 2022. She is now the Programs Director at Project Kindred based in Milwaukee. Outside of camps, EmJ enjoys editing this podcast, watching KU men’s basketball and going on long runs with longer podcasts about reality shows.
To get in contact, email eajuszczyk@gmail.com
Jack Schott
Host Jack Schott struggles with bureaucracy, loves fun, and secretly stays up late obsessing over businessy stuff. His unique perspectives come from his varied background. An engineer, Jack took the first few years post-college to travel the country visiting over 200 camps in 47 states. Building on what he saw, he co-founded Stomping Ground, a non-profit sleepaway camp inspiring radical empathy and co-founded The Summer Camp Society. In 2022, Jack trained more than 2000 camp staff at 20+ camps.
To get in contact, email jack@thesummercampsociety.com
The Summer Camp Society Podcast is edited and produced by EmJ Juszczyk.
