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Last updated: 1/4/2025. This is a living document and will be updated regularly. Please check back and see if our plans have evolved or changed before your camp or workshop.
illness protocols 2025
Our in-person programs in 2025 will be mask and distance optional for most people in most situations. We will continue to actively support people who choose to mask and distance. Someone who wishes to mask and distance should be able to do that with ease during all of our seated activities. Our Spring and Summer Camp activities take place outdoors with few exceptions. During the winter we use an indoor studio space.
Please call us if you are coming to camp and you or someone you have been exposed to is symptomatic or has been sick recently or tested positive for COVID or other contagious illnesses. Some precautions may be requested or required. We have a camp nurse who advises us about specific situations.
CONSENT, PERSONAL SPACE & DIRECT PHYSICAL CONTACT
- We teach consent and expect consent when entering someone’s personal space or exchanging physical contact.
- We are comfortable with people in the camp community exchanging elbow bumps, fist bumps, and hugs WITH CONSENT, understanding that for some people close contact is not comfortable for a variety of reasons.
how it works on the ground at camp ~ all the practical stuff!
health check in every day before leaving home
Check in with yourself and/or your camper each day before leaving for camp. Intentionally ask, “How do you feel?” If campers or staff are symptomatic with sneezing, coughing, runny nose, sore throat, fever, nausea, etc., we would like you to stay home, call us, and wait for symptoms to resolve. In addition, you will need to get a COVID test before coming back to camp.
if you are sick with a respiratory virus or GI bug (Covid, flu, cold symptoms, RSV, norovirus, vomiting or diarrhea)
If you or your camper are recovering from any communicable illness, have had known contact with people who recently had a communicable disease, or are feeling sick in ANY WAY, we want you to call Louise, the camp director: 919-542-5599. We expect a CALL if any of the following applies to you:
If you or your camper is symptomatic in ANY WAY. Depending on the severity of the symptoms, we will assess together whether you or your camper can come to camp.- If you or your camper had known contact with someone who tested positive for any communicable illness in the week before camp.
- If you are living with someone who has has a communicable illness and has not been able to isolate from the family.
- If you are diagnosed with a communicable illness during the camp week.
In general you will be able to participate in camp if you:
- are feeling well in spite of being exposed to close contact with an illness
- have recently recovered and are feeling better and at least 24 hours have passed in which you are fever free without taking any fever reducing medications.
Precautions that my be requested:
- Wear a mask when in close proximity to others.
- Maintain safe distance from others when in close quarters and definitely when inside a building.
In all of these circumstances we will consult our nurse and let you know what to do.
if symptoms start during the camp day
We will call parents and ask that campers get picked up, or ask that adult campers leave camp.
hand hygiene
We will have hand washing stations and hand sanitizer available, and people will be encouraged to clean their hands often.
carpooling
Carpooling is set up by parents, not camp, but we will provide contact information and locations so parents can contact one another.
We suggest that families openly discuss what they want in terms of illness precautions in the car before setting up a carpool. Please respect each family’s decisions as to what is acceptable to them for managing risk.
To be specific, you may want to talk about these questions:
- Has anyone in the carpool been sick in the last week or 2?
- Has anyone tested for COVID in the past week? Do they have the results?
- Other questions you may have! We’re not suggesting our questions are comprehensive; again, carpooling is up to families and not the responsibility of camp.
patience and grace while we continue to make the camp community a safe and inclusive setting
Thank you for reading our illness protocol document. Although the risks of COVID have abated for many of us, we are aware that some of our campers are in medically vulnerable situations. We try and strike a balance between considering families in special circumstances and responding to the needs of our entire community. We also want to avoid illness of any kind running through camp as much as possible. Your patience and grace are deeply appreciated!
