Summer Intern - Special Needs Camp Specialist
Do you have goals to become a Social Worker? Educator? Therapist? Healthcare Provider? Leader and All-Around Change Maker? Then, you may be ready for a life-changing summer internship at Camp Starfish!
Join our team as a Camp Specialist Intern to gain real on-the-job skills, living with and helping youth who you may want to work with in your future career! A summer at Starfish equals new experiences, personal growth, and memories that will last a lifetime.
Camp Starfish is an overnight camp in New Hampshire that pairs traditional summer camp activities with structure and one-to-one support for our campers with emotional, behavioral, social, and learning challenges. We are looking for resilient, patient, and passionate individuals to be supportive role models and encouraging teachers for our 6 to 16-year-old campers.
A Camp Specialist will utilize empathy, collaboration, and creative problem solving on a daily basis at camp, all while making lifelong friends and creating impactful moments of change.
You’ll join our internship seminar where you will learn how to market yourself and the transferrable skills you gain during a summer at camp. As a member of the Starfish team, you’ll join a large network of staff alumni who are often able to provide connections and resources in your future career field.
Camp Specialists live in bunks (cabins) with campers, eat in the dining hall (where they’ll inevitably have to convince a camper that a plate of croutons from the salad bar does not constitute a meal), swim in the lake, sing camp songs, eat s’mores, and coach campers through appropriate social interactions (I know you really wanted to use that marker that Johnny was using and so you ripped up his artwork. How do you think Johnny feels after you did this? How can we fix this together?)
To be successful at Camp Starfish, you thrive on collaboration, enjoy learning and problem solving, are resilient, embrace and accept differences, and are excited to spend 10 weeks, playing, learning, living, and working outdoors all while making a profound difference in the lives of our campers.
Prior experience working with youth with challenges is a plus, but our staff receive over 140+ hours of hands-on training to prepare them for this life-changing role.
P.S. Many of our interns are able to earn course credit for their work at Starfish. Check with your school to see if that’s an option for you! We also offer a 15-month Fellowship to a select number of staff.