Our camp staff plays a vital role in the experience and life-long memories of camp.

Camp Directors recruit and screen mature, qualified staff that has a desire to share their enthusiasm for camping, the outdoors and arts with your camper. We hire individuals from Arizona and throughout the United States, as well as staff from other countries. In the past this has included staff from Australia, England, Israel and numerous others.

Through our diverse camp staff, your camper will gain additional experience working together with people from a broad range of backgrounds. Helping them to achieve and grow in the GSLE Key: Connect. In addition, they will come to understand diversity in a multicultural world.

Most of the camp staff are college students studying education, sociology and outdoor recreation- among many others. All staff must be 18 or older or have graduated from high school. All camp staff receives a background check and go through drug screening.

All camp staff participates in an intensive pre-camp training this includes:

• Program development
• First aid and CPR
• Outdoor skills, including Leave No Trace
• Human relations skills
• Child development
• Homesickness

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