Child Safety Test 2024

Correct child supervision includes

• Actively watching, taking care of campers, and being apart of their experience

• Watching them while sitting down

• Focusing only on one or two children at a time.

• Taking a break while the kids are playing and assume they can supervise themselves.

Counselors or child care taker must never

• Allow the kids to do whatever they want throughout the day

• Correct a child that is not behaving correctly

• Be one one one with a child

• Have a positive attitude and presence at all times.

Counselors must never have or use this item while on the clock

• Closed toed shoes

• Cell Phones

• Camp Binders

• Certain items brought from home

You notice another counselor from a different group that knows you personally is coming to talk to you leaving their assigned group and area, how should you respond in this situation?

• Listen to what they have to say and watch your kids at the same time.

• Leave your group to go and meet with them.

• Politely tell them you are on the clock and need to focus on your group and that they should return to where they're supposed to go immediately.

• Try to talk with them without getting caught.

What is the proper bathroom and locker-room protocol?

• Counselors should always escort the children to the bathroom, as well as in and out of the lockerroom

• Allow them to go to the bathroom and locker-room by themselves.

• Take them to the locker-room and then allow them to change by themselves without supervision

Say you are an assistant counselor taking a group of kids to the bathroom without another counselor with you; How should you handle this situation?

• Send the kids to the bathroom by themselves and stay with the other kids

• Do nothing until another counselor comes to help

• Bring your entire group to the bathroom together. Allow the kids to use the bathroom in an orderly fashion. Stand in the door with one fit in and one foot out to watch the kids in and outside of the bathroom.

• Take one kid to the bathroom at a time and leave the rest with your lead counselor.

True or False. It's okay to be alone with a child where others may not be able to see you clearly.

• True: Somtimes

• False: Never

What is the least amount of children you can have with you?

• 1

• 2

• 3 or more

• It doesn't matter

It is aftercare time and a parent comes to pick a certain child. What is the proper protocol for aftercare pick up if you a parent comes to pick up the child.

• Ask the parent to wait outside until all children are ready to leave
• Greet the parents nicely. Verify the parent's identity, check if they are authorized, see if the child has any behavioral issues or write up forms, and then release the child.

• Allow the parent to take any child they want
• Ignore the parent and continue with aftercare activities and let them sign out their child themselves

A parent comes to drop their child off late in the morning with their group, how should this be done properly?

• Approach the school office or designated drop-off area, explain the reason for lateness to either school or camp staff, find out what activity their child's group is at, sign off the child in the binder, and ensure the child is safely escorted to the right place before leaving.

• Leave their child with their group without saying anything to the counselor

• Tell the child to find their own way to the classroom
• Leave the child outside the school gate and drive off.