 |
 |
 |
|
An ideal camp staff is diverse in background and perspectives. Is the way you recruit and interview
hindering your diversity efforts? A lack of cultural competency also lowers retention rates
for both staff and campers. Cultural Competency: The Key to Recruiting and Retaining Diverse
Staff details how to assess your personal and organizational levels of cultural competence. This
thought-provoking presentation, filmed at the 2008 American Camp Association National
Conference, is designed to enable you to look at diversity in new ways.
Among the topics covered:
- Dimensions of diversity
- Universal problem
- Microinequities
- Cultural competence
- Cultural blindness
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
Biography
- Gretchen Vaughn (camp name: Banana) is a leadership coach and diversity consultant and the owner of Out of the Mountains, LLC. She has 15 years experience working with day, resident, non-profit, private, Girl Scout, and medical-specialty camps. She also volunteers for the ACA as a Standards accreditation visitor & instructor and as a member of the editorial advisory committee of Camping Magazine. In her coaching practice, Gretchen works with camp and youth-development professionals to amp up their leadership and communication skills and to find tailor-made solutions to the challenges they face.
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
