KIDS CARE Policies and Guidelines
Please contact the Camp Fire office at 842-8787 or email programming@campfireab.org to receive a Parent handbook.  


 

 

Signing-In, Signing Out, and Reporting Absences

To ensure children's safety, we have strict rules about signing in, signing out, and reporting absences:

  • Parents, or their authorized agents, must sign their children in when they drop them off at KIDS CARE each morning.

  • Parents or authorized agents must sign their children out when they pick them up in the afternoon, and when they remove them early or temporarily from the KIDS CARE program (for example, for a doctor's appointment).

  • Parents must provide a signed release form if they want their children to attend regular non-Camp Fire USA activities during program hours (for example, school-based club meetings, activities, counseling programs, etc.).

  • Parents must call the Camp Fire USA office at 842-8787--Option #5 if their children will be absent from KIDS CARE.

  • All Camp Fire programs close promptly at 6:00 pm.  All children must be picked-up before 6:00 pm.  Parents arriving after 6:00 pm will be assessed a late fee of $6 for every 15 minutes after 6:00 pm or any portion thereof, per child.  The police will be contacted for children left at KIDS CARE after 7:00 pm.  Parents who do not pick-up their children by 7:00 pm will be suspended from the program.  Parents who are repeatedly late will be asked to find alternative care.

Anyone who picks up a child from KIDS CARE may be asked to show a picture identification and/or to provide the family's code word.  We want to make sure the children who attend our programs are safe at all times.

Snow Days

Weather conditions occasionally require that school districts modify school schedules.  Because Camp Fire programs occupy school facilities, we too may hae to alter our program schedules.  Poor weather conditions can result in abbreviated days, with school starting two hours late.  On these days, Camp Fire USA programs begin at 8:00 am and continue until school starts.  If the school district cancels school entirely after children have been left at Camp Fire, parents will be contacted to pick up their children within an hour of notification.  Inclement weather may prevent schools from opening at all.  Under these circumstances, there will be no Camp Fire USA programs at school sites.

Behavior Guidelines

Camp Fire USA staff provide clear guidelines and limits for children's behavior.  Staff will use positive techniques, discussion, reinforcement, encouragement and redirection, and clear consistent rules to create a safe, productive environment where children can play, learn, and grow.  Staff encourage children to work together to solve conflicts.  In some situations, brief, supervised separation from the group or other logical consequences may be appropriate.

Camp Fire USA staff do their best to work with all children.  However, if a child's behavior endangers him- or herself, other children or staff, or causes damage to equipment or facilities, the child's parents may be asked to seek alternative care.  Parents are generally held responsible for the consequences of their children's behavior.

Field Trips

Camp Fire KIDS CARE programs will periodically go on field trips by bus.  In order for children to participate in these field trips, parents must submit a signed permission slip, by the day before the field trip.

Additionally, all KIDS CARE programs will take walking field trips to locations near our school sites.  Permission for children to participate in the walking field trips is covered by the General Permission Slip parents sign at the time of program registration.  Times and destinations for these excursions are posted at the school sites.

On-site care will not be provided for children not participating in Camp Fire field trips.  Parents will need to make other child care arrangements if they do not want their child to participate in these trips.