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2020 Interest Session Topics

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• Finding and Reconnecting your Camp Alumni (Katie Trippi)
• Curriculum Design for Outdoor Education (Kyle Beach)
• 48 Days from Disaster to Re-Opening (Max Clark and Jordan Baxter)
• Tech Tools for Camps (Joel Sieplinga)
• Functional Inclusion Within Your Camp Equestrian Programs (Natalie Hamilton)
• Racial Healing: The Possibilities of Camp (Niambi Jaha-Echols, keynote)
• Resume Building and Interviewing (Brian Frawley)
• Preparing for Critical Incidents and Active Violence (Allison Moody and Jason Russell)
• Meet the YMCA Collective Marketing Initiative (Susan Coker and Amanda Hinski)
• Diversity, Inclusion and Global Engagement 101 (Natalie Roberts-Day, Adriana Stanovici, and Jason Smith)
• In Search of a More Equitable Registration Process (Bernard Rocca)
• Home and Belonging: Can Camp Be That Place?
  ​(Michael DeVaul, keynote​)

• Mental Health Crisis: Is Your Camp Prepared? (Amanda Raines)
• Learn More About Our International Camp Colleagues - YMCA Belarus (Maria Miadzvedzeva and Nikolay Miadzvedzeu)
• Learn More About Our International Camp Colleagues - YMCA Colombia (Sebastian Cruz)
• Marketing Tips in a Changing World (Susan Coker and Amanda Hinski)
• How Schedules Matter (BJ Murray)
• Running a Nature Center for your Camp (Keith Kalish and Blake Seguin)
• Sharing Camp: Day Camp at a Resident Camp (Kyle Beach)
• Coaching Gen Z (Emily Walden)
• In-House Challenge Course Inspections (Andrea Vogt)
• Set Up for Success: Pre-Participation Phone Calls with Parents (Kat Witt)
• Practicing Self Care at Camp (Marsha Gleit)

• What's in a Name: Upgrading Camp Language (Andrew Corley)
• Incorporating DIG Strategies into Seasonal Staff Training (Natalie Roberts-Day, Adriana Stanovici, and Jason Smith)
• Camp's LEAST Wanted: Norovirus! (Amiee Woodrow and Ricky Wright)
• Meeting Mental Health Needs at Camp: A Consultation Model to Support Camp Counselors (Amanda Case and Joel Sieplinga)
• Becoming a CEO (Zach Klipsch)
• Move Forward by Being Mindful of the Past (Chris Przedpelski)
• Day Camp Culture (Jessie Emmons)
• Wage Elasticity and Hiring Struggles (Zac Caldwell)
• Functional Board Committee Structure: Putting Your Board to Work (Bill Hinton)
• Technical Tree Climbing (Kevin Knapp)
• Using DIG Days to Enhance Programming (Anna Vogel)