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Rett’s Roost

Family Camp

July 21 - 25, 2024

Medomak Family Camp, Washington, ME

For volunteers ages 18+

Rett’s Roost “Positively Healing” retreat offers an opportunity for families to connect with each other about their shared experience with childhood cancer. In 2024, we’ll work together to provide a myriad of fun and therapeutic activities for the whole family.

Qualifications

Every Rett’s Roost Family Camp volunteer must be:
- At least 18 years old
- Able to complete comprehensive background checks provided by Camp Casco
- Up-to-date on all immunizations, including COVID-19
- Aligned with our organizational values of community, compassion, and commitment
Accepted volunteers will be expected to:
- Submit required forms in a timely manner
- Complete an online training course prior to arriving to your camp session
- Attend the entire duration of Rett’s Roost Family Camp, taking place July 21-25, 2024 in Washington, ME, including sleeping onsite in lodging provided by Camp Casco.
- Provide your own transportation to and from Washington, ME. If you need assistance with transportation, please contact us as we may be able to assist.

Training & Support

We’re here to support our camp counselors every step of the way. Here’s how we help both new and returning volunteers succeed:

Every counselor will complete a mandatory online training course prior to camp. This course will take around 3 hours to complete, and will cover key topics like how to create a welcoming environment, conflict management, and our safety policies, ensuring every camp counselor arrives with a foundational knowledge of what to expect.
In addition, we aim to help our volunteers gain experience and build skills that will continue to benefit you long after the camp week ends. To that end, in 2024, every volunteer will have the opportunity to complete an optional online course to earn a certificate in camp mental health.
Throughout your camp session, you will be directly supported by a member of our staff, Emily “Cardinal” Hayes, as well as the Rett’s Roost team.
Every member of our team is invested in making sure that this is a great experience for every camper and every volunteer.

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Volunteer spaces are currently full for Rett’s Roost Family Camp 2024. Please sign up below to be notified if a space becomes available, or check out our current volunteer needs here!

FAQs

Rett’s Roost is a community of families that have experienced childhood cancer or child loss. Hopeful retreats and social gatherings that focus on mindful healing of trauma & grief through therapeutic and community support. We have been supporters of Rett’s Roost for many years, and are excited to collaborate in a new way in 2024.
Rett’s Roost offers annual Positively Healing Retreats for families affected by childhood cancer. In their words:
“At Rett’s Roost, we hope to create a joyful, fearless, empathetic space for families to relax, renew, and lament after months or years in a hospital environment. We focus on mindful, positive living through healthy bodies, minds, and spirits. Our hope is to offer families facing the post-treatment world, ways to ease their anxieties for the future, reintegrate back into their pre-cancer lives, and find moments of joy and gratitude in their daily lives.”
Eight families will be invited to join this non-denominational, healing retreat. Each family will receive their own bedroom, and delicious, healthy meals. We will enjoy full days of activities to connect with others and to heal within, such as art, music, yoga, games, and nature hunts.
In 2024, Camp Casco will partner with Rett’s Roost to provide fun and engaging activities for kids of all ages in attendance.
As part of this team effort, we will bring 3 Family Camp volunteers to run Camp Casco-organized games and activities throughout the retreat. By providing entertainment and child care, we’ll help participating kids connect through fun activities, while also allowing parents in attendance more time to recharge.
Yes, food and onsite lodging will be provided for all Family Camp volunteers.
Rett’s Roost’s most recent COVID protocol states that all adults attending a retreat, including volunteers, are vaccinated for COVID (two shots minimum). Children are not required to be vaccinated for COVID, but all but children with cancer must be up-to-date on the recommended vaccines for their age. They require rapid testing on arrival (and if symptoms develop while on retreat).
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We will stay in the same building as the retreat guests, with electricity, hot water, and single or bunk beds. You will share a room with one other member of our Family Camp volunteer team, and you will have access to a shared indoor bathroom.