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Job Guide: Youth Retreat Counsellor
By: Admin Date: April 15, 2015, 7:53 am
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[center]Job Guide: Youth Retreat Counsellor[/center]
The role of Youth Retreat Counsellor has become a very important
one within our community after a recent restructure. We have a
limited number of adults who have agreed to take on a role
within the Youth Retreat, to facilitate interaction among the
children and to run group activities. This job comes with more
conditions and higher expectations than are placed on general
community adults. If you would like to apply for this role,
please fill out the form at the bottom of this guide and send it
to the Admin account via PM (after your application to the site
has been accepted)
Job Description
Youth Retreat Counsellors will live within the Retreat building.
They must be unattached adults: moving to SNF without any
children for whom they have guardianship. They will be expected
on a regular basis to organise and execute group activities that
will allow the Residents to interact with each other and the
Counsellors. These activities may consist of anything, but
should be accessible to a range of ages and all genders whenever
possible. Youth Retreat Counsellors are exempt from the usual
community expectations when it comes to discipline of Retreat
children. They may participate in all adult discussions and
bring anything to the adults to be discussed, but may not enter
any situation with a Retreat Child that takes place outside of
the Retreat that has been deemed a certain disciplinary issue.
They may enter a thread that has been deemed by the adults not
necessarily disciplinary but nonetheless in need of
intervention. They may, after discussion with the other Retreat
Counsellors, choose to enter emotional or disciplinary
situations that take place within the Retreat itself. Retreat
Counsellors must agree to, and follow, the Retreat Counsellor
Code of Conduct or may be asked to step down from the position.
As the main focus for Retreat Counsellors is the Retreat
children, no Counsellor may seek to foster or adopt any child in
the community while maintaining their position at the Retreat.
This means that the job is not the right fit for those adults
who are seeking children of their own, but is an excellent fit
for those who wish to help out with children, but are not ready
or able to commit to adoption. It is a job that requires working
as a team with the other counsellors and an ability to regularly
participate in group discussions, and so is more labour
intensive than that of the community adults. Nonetheless, it is
a vital role and would suit highly motivated adults who wish to
make a difference in the lives of a variety of children.
Retreat Counsellor Code of Conduct
1. Retreat Counsellors may hold any other job in conjunction
with their role at the Retreat, as long as it does not infringe
upon their ability to co-ordinate Retreat activities.
2. Retreat Counsellors may not initiate nor agree to one-on-one
threads with Retreat children, and should instead encourage the
children to create open group threads in which Counsellors may
take part if they wish.
3. Retreat Counsellors may, if necessary, enter a child’s thread
within the Retreat, thereby creating a one-on-one situation, but
this may not be prompted by any child and should not take place
without discussion with the other Counsellors.
4. Retreat Counsellors may not enter any disciplinary situation
with Retreat children that takes place outside of the Retreat
building/grounds.
5. Any Retreat Counsellor who develops a relationship with a
child and from this wishes to foster or adopt must step down
from their position within the Retreat before the
fostering/adoption will be approved. This does not include
non-parental relationships with Retreat children.
6. The Retreat Counsellor Discussion board should be used to
arrange all Counsellor-lead activities and discuss threads of
concern that take place within the Retreat. Any Retreat
Counsellor seeing a thread that takes place outside the Retreat
that is of concern should take it to the wider adult community
and not just the Counsellors.
Retreat Counsellor Application
[code]Name:
Why would you like to be a Retreat Counsellor?
Do you agree to abide by all terms in the Retreat Counsellor
Code of Conduct?
Do you understand and accept that failing to abide by the C.O.C
may result in being stripped of the role?[/code]
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