Camp Parents Guide

Welcome to Enso Movement Camps

Thank you for choosing our unique, fun, and exciting camps filled with various activities, movement skills, physical education games, teamwork, and more. Our team believes that every child should have healthy and positive core memories for camps built from encouraging environments. We know our camps leave lifelong impressions on kids as memorable experiences.

The Camp Parent Manual provides information to help your camper have the most successful camp experience. Let us know if you have any questions.

Our Team

Our coaches are experienced, safe, and certified in parkour training methodologies. Unique to Enso Movement, our array of coaches has been certified through extensive parkour coaching programs such as ADAPT, APEX, or APK. Our staff’s qualifications bring diversity to perspectives, coaching practices, and risk management. We strive to ensure our students are challenged to their appropriate levels in class while prioritizing safety. All individuals on our coaching team are first-aid certified and CDC Heads-up Concussion certified.

Coaches are certified through a ten-week intensive program that advances individuals’ movement expertise, drills, practical application, class chemistry, and more. Additionally, our staff undergoes continuing education to stay current with the latest sports development, coaching, and safety practices.

We strive to maintain a 1:10 ratio for camp programs. At times, the ratio may be exceeded based on staff experience and the overall camp group.

Online Waiver

All participants in our recreational facilities must sign an online waiver. We only take electronic signatures via our online form. We do not take printed submissions and will not make modifications to our waiver for your camper’s participation.

Family Communication

We strive to communicate effectively through emails, phone calls, newsletters, and face-to-face conversations. Please be sure to have an updated email via our member portal.

Camp emails are sent the Friday prior to your camper’s first day of camp.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email us.

Camper Notes

Parents should note:

• instances of change in pick-up and/or drop-off
• campers being picked up by someone other than their designated emergency contacts
• medication needs
• modified activities, extra help, or additional support for your child

Drop Off & Pick-up

Drop Off Procedures

• Parents must check campers in with our staff on the first day of camp. For the remainder of the camp week, campers may be dropped off at their designated time.
• General camp drop off is from 8:45am – 9:15am. Any earlier than 8:45am is considered an early drop off. Families may be charged an additional fee if their child is dropped off before 8:45am.
• We offer early drop off (Early AM Care) from 8:00am – 8:45am for an additional fee.

Pick-up Procedures

• General pick-up is from 3:30pm – 4:00pm. Any later than 4:00pm is considered a late pick-up. Families may be charged an additional fee if their child is picked up after 4:00pm.
• Children will only be released to parents, legal guardians, and their designated emergency contacts under their children’s account.
• If you plan to have anyone else pick up your child, you must notify our staff in writing.

Behavior Expectations

Our behavior expectations are based on our core values of safety, respect, inclusion, honesty, and responsibility. When we can cultivate and act within safe and secure environments where all campers have an opportunity to learn, we demonstrate good behavior and character traits that ultimately lead to exciting, fun camps. In order to do this, all campers need to know and understand the rules and expectations we set for appropriate behavior at our camps.

Enso Movement does not allow any of the following behaviors including but not limited to:

• Any behavior or action that threatens the physical or emotional safety of camp participants, staff, or volunteers which may include, but is not limited to, insults, abusive jokes, slurs, threats, intimidation, patterned targeting, or name-calling.
• Any behavior that violates another individual’s personal boundaries.
• Any destructive behavior.
• Any behavior that is of sexual nature.

Difficult and/or inappropriate behavior in kids can sometimes be nuanced. Ultimately, our staff will make choices we believe is best for the camp participants and staff to ensure a healthy, fun, and positive camp environment.

Our camp teams hod a range of compassion and expertise in certain areas – our team are not mental health professionals, social workers, or 1:1 camper-to-staff support.

Bullying

We have a firm policy against bully. Each participant is expected to treat all other individuals respectfully and help each other achieve the best possible experience. Parents and guardians may be called if a participant has difficulty meeting this expectation. Our staff address all incidents of bullying seriously. Our team works with their campers and groups to ensure all participants receive safe and equitable opportunities.

Special Circumstances

The goals of our camp programs is to meaningfully include all camp individuals. We respectfully request parents or guardians to inform our staff of any special circumstances which may affect your child’s ability to participate prior to the start of the program. By providing information regarding the needs of your child, the staff can prepare helpful accommodations that will better serve all individuals in our camp programs.

Under some circumstances, our staff may request additional information to discuss accommodations that may need to be created to include your child to ensure their successful and meaningful participation.

Program Removal

We will support our campers the best we can to make camp and its programming successful. Should a camper need support that goes beyond what we can safely provide or should a situation escalate to a level where we can no longer safely find a resolution for the camper, an action plan may determine the need to remove a child from a program for any amount of time, including the remainder of the camp season or its programs entirely.

What to Bring

• Campers should bring a small bag for their personal belongings. The bag should be labeled with the camper’s name and phone number.
• Two snacks and a water bottle.
• Young campers prone to spilling food and drinks should pack a change of clothes.
• A water bottle labeled with the camper’s name.

Personal electronic devices, cell phones, toys, games, cards, stuffed animals, money, etc should remain at home. Enso Movement is not responsible for any lost personal items.

Lost and Found

Enso Movement is not responsible for lost or stolen items.

• Lost-and-found items are displayed in a public area with personal belongings.
• Any items left at camp are placed in the lost-and-found display.
• We do not keep socks or undergarments for sanitary reasons.
• Anything not retrieved within two weeks will be donated to a local charity.

Your content goes here. Edit or remove this text inline or in the module Content settings. You can also style every aspect of this content in the module Design settings and even apply custom CSS to this text in the module Advanced settings.

What to Wear

• Appropriate loose-fitting clothing that your camper feels comfortable running, jumping, and climbing in.
• Closed-toe shoes.
• Any belongings should be marked with your camper’s name.
• If your camper is prone to spilling food and drinks while eating, you’re welcome to pack a change of clothes in their bag.

Lunches and Snacks

Enso Movement does not serve lunches and snacks.

• Full-day participants should bring a nutritious lunch, two snacks, and a water bottle.
• Half-day participants should bring a snack and a water bottle.
• We recommend a small lunch box that is clearly marked with your child’s name and phone number.
• Campers do not have access to a refrigerator or microwave.
• Campers are allowed to purchase available snacks and drinks from our front desk. Cash is accepted. A card on file can be used with permission.
• We can make accommodations for campers with food allergies.

Medication

• Do not pack medication with your child’s belongings.
• Parents must bring the necessary medications to the front desk. Medication must be in their original containers.
• A Medication Administration Form must be provided for staff to dispense any medication. Please fill out and email to our front desk.

When to Stay Home

We ask that you do not send your child to our camps or programs with any of the following symptoms to protect the health and safety of our staff, campers, and community:

• Excessive coughing
• Sore throat
• Diarrhea
• Vomiting
• Fever
• Head lice
• Undiagnosed rashes, sores, or skin conditions
• Any other contagious disease or symptoms

Inclement Weather

In the event of severe weather such as snow, tornados, hurricanes, or unsafe conditions, camp activities and schedules will be modified to ensure the safety of all participants.

Severe weather may affect the pickup process. The safety of campers and staff is our first priority.

Parents may come inside or into sheltered areas at their own risk to pick up their child during severe weather conditions.

Make-Up Policy

There are no credits or make-up days offered for camp days missed.

Cancellations

You may cancel your child’s camp registration prior the camp program starting to receive a refund. To cancel a camp registration, Enso Movement must receive a written email notice before the start of the program. Our front desk will communicate acknowledgement of the cancelation notice.

Refunds

Refunds may only be issued if a registration is canceled before a camp program has started. If canceling after the program has begun, you will be charged for the entire fee. Camp registration fees are non-refundable. Not attending a program does not entitle you to a refund. Camp enrollment and registration reserves a camp registration, your child’s space in our programs, and the program’s time and staffing whether or not your child attends the camp program.

Enso Movement does not provide refunds for inclement weather.

Enso Movement does not provide refunds for camp days missed due to injury, illness, required medical quarantine, various appointments, etc.