4-H Overnight Chaperone Orientation
Housing Recommendations
Adult chaperones will be assigned to a group of youth participants. It is the chaperone’s responsibility to supervise those youth participants.
Youth participants may not make changes to their housing assignments without approval of the Event Coordinator.
Adult chaperones need to monitor youth participants so that the participants are not allowed to miss the event’s scheduled activities, break curfew, sleep late, or violate any other rules of the event.
Male youth participants are not allowed in female youth participant rooms and female youth participants are not allowed in male youth participant rooms. Adult chaperones should not enter the rooms of a youth participant of the opposite gender.
Whenever possible, only youth of a similar or same age should room together.
Face-to-face roll call should be taken at night. It may also be taken at other times during the day – i.e. meals, when loading transportation, and departing locations.
A single adult should not share a room with one or more youth unless that adult is the parent/guardian of one of the youth and has the permission of the second child’s parent/guardian.
Housing should be left in the manner in which it was found when the event started. Rooms should be generally cleaned with the trash placed into proper receptacles. Any damage will be the responsibility of the youth participants assigned to that area.
As a general practice, when possible, youth will not share beds with another individual if they are of junior high or high school age and attending a regional, state, or national 4-H event.
All adult chaperones should complete the on-line 4-H Overnight Chaperone Orientation. Web site address is http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/4hchaperone/.
05/07
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