OUR CAMP PHILOSOPHY
We offer a diversity of quality summer camps that will enrich and enhance the lives of our participants emotionally, socially, and physically. Through our camp activities, we provide a variety of memorable experiences by fostering an appreciation of nature and the environment, inspiring a sense of adventure, and encouraging opportunities to make new friendships. We strive to create a sense of belonging, empowering campers to build a positive self-image, improve self-esteem, develop self-confidence, further skill development, discover inner talents, and learn to be respectful and supportive of each other. Our campers have unique opportunities to express themselves creatively, grow their passions, and find success through encouragement to expand their interests by trying new activities.
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to provide a fun, safe, inclusive, welcoming, and enriching environment that allows our campers to play, learn, and grow. Monmouth County Park System staff are positive role models trained to provide a nurturing atmosphere through patience, compassion, and acceptance, and promoting the well-being of all campers.
OUR VALUES
Care for yourself
Care for and respect others
Care for and appreciate the environment
Care for and be positive role models
FORMS AND IMPORTANT INFORMATION
To ensure staff is prepared to provide for the needs of campers, and appropriately respond to emergencies and health issues, the Monmouth County Park System requires completed camper information prior to the start of camp. This year camp forms will be completed and submitted electronically through CampDoc. Shortly after you register for camps, you can expect to receive an “invitation” email from CampDoc. If your child was registered for camp last year, your information is securely saved in CampDocs and will just need to be updated for this year. For your convenience, CampDoc saves your information as you complete your information, thereby allowing you to return to login to
app.campdoc.com to make updates and/or continue filling out your participant’s information.
Additionally, CampDoc sends out periodic reminder emails for incomplete health information, and your camp may also use the messaging feature to send out emails via CampDoc. These notifications will come from noreply@campdoc.com, so please add this to your safe sender list to avoid accidental delivery to junk and spam folders. We don’t want you to miss important notices about Monmouth County Park System camps!
The security and privacy of your participant's health information is important to us. The CampDoc site is secure, encrypted, and password protected. You can find additional information about CampDoc privacy and security information at
www.docnetwork.org/security.
We reserve the right to deny your child’s participation in our camp if we do not have completed paperwork a minimum of one week prior to their camp start date.
You will notice that we have asked for some personal information about your child in our camp forms. We would like to take a moment to talk to you about these important questions. Some information, such as immunizations, are required by law. Providing us with additional information about a learning disability, attention challenges, or a recent loss or major change in the family or child’s life, helps us to be sensitive to your child’s need for patience, understanding and reassurance – especially in the first days of camp. If you would like to speak with Park System staff directly about this, or share information about your child, please do not hesitate to contact the MCPS staff contact listed on the camp information sheet.
Please click on image to open Parent Camp Handbook.
ILLNESS & INJURY
In cases of illness and injury, treatment will be provided as necessary by our trained staff on site. You will be notified of minor bumps/bruises/scrapes at pick-up. Parents/guardians will be contacted immediately if your child experiences loss of consciousness, severe bleeding, an allergic reaction, broken bones, head trauma, or any other severe injury. Every effort will be made to contact parents/guardians through all contact numbers provided. If parents/guardians are unavailable, emergency contacts listed on your child’s health history & information form will be called until parental contact is made. Should your child require additional medical treatment, emergency services will be notified, and your child will be transported to the local hospital, accompanied by park system staff who will remain with your child until you, or your designee, arrive.
COMMUNICABLE DISEASES MANAGEMENT
We are concerned with the health and welfare of each child. To prevent illness from being spread to campers. If any of the following symptoms occur at camp, you will be called to take your child home. Upon notification, we require that your child be picked up within one hour.
- Temperature over 100 degrees
- Severe cold
- Difficult rapid breathing
- Severe pain or discomfort
- Vomiting
- Diarrhea
- Rashes that cannot be identified or have not been diagnosed by the physician
- Contagious diseases such as measles, chicken pox, mumps, rosella, pink eye or impetigo
- Ear or throat infections
- Unusual behavior, such as extreme lethargy, refusing to eat or drink, etc.
RETURN TO CAMP POLICY
Children that are sent home from camp can only return if they are free of any symptoms for twenty-four hours. Written medical clearance from a doctor stating the camper is cleared to participate in all activities on a definitive date is required for any concussion, broken bones, sports injury, or other serious illness/communicable disease.
CAMP REFUND POLICY
In planning camps, the Monmouth County Park System incurs many non-recoverable expenses on behalf of the participant.
- A full refund will be given when a camp is cancelled by the Monmouth County Park System.
- No refunds or credits will be given for any days missed by the participant.
- If adequate advance notice is provided, we will refund the full amount of the program less a processing fee and non-recoverable expenses, as listed below. If we can replace you on a camp within the time limit listed below, you will receive a full refund less the processing fee as noted below.
- Camps: a full refund will be issued with at least 30 calendar days advance notice, less a $25 processing fee and any non-recoverable expenses (pre-paid meals, lodging, tickets, etc.); 50% refund with 14 to 29 calendar days advance notice, less a $25 processing fee and any non-recoverable expenses; no refund within 13 calendar days of the start of the camp.
- For refund requests call 732-842-4000, ext. 1, Monday through Friday between 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
We look forward to seeing you in the parks this summer!
For more information, call 732-842-4000, ext. 4312, or email info@monmouthcountyparks.com.