Camp Counseling Cultural Immersion: Service Learning

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Camp Counseling Cultural Immersion: Service Learning is for students to learn, practice, and reflect upon interpersonal helping skills in a community service context. Camp counseling equips students with interpersonal skills such as leadership, service, cultural diversity, and even helping profession microskills. Our course’s laboratory combines youth from both at-risk and not at-risk backgrounds; from rural, urban, and suburban settings; of all races, ethnicities and cultures. Students in this course will volunteer for a week with our partner, Camp Oty’Okwa (Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Ohio) and practice 1) leadership and advocacy, 2) cross-cultural helping, and 3) team building skills through applied skill acquisition, service, and reflection.