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[quote=Anonymous]not the camp for him. In college I ran a volunteer program matching college students with special needs elementary students from the most impoverished part of town (that wasn't that far from campus) and we did all sorts of fun activities. We accepted everyone and in retrospect had no idea what we were doing. I feel enormously grateful we only had one very scary incident and the child ended up being fine and the parent was incredibly forgiving. It was one big massive liability and while I think we offered a good service overall, it was not safe for all and we should have gotten way more guidance regarding who we accepted. We worked with a local organization and they just assumed we knew what we were doing.

I say all that because if this run by college students, there is no way they are trained well enough to deal emergencies and keep the other kids calm. Go where you have the utmost confidence people know what they are doing. Don't take the risk. I still feel guilty that I could have caused a child harm because we were so ill equipped to deal with the needs of every student we took. [/quote]

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