A free training program for camps
NavigatingCamp Safety 🧭
Practical skills and tools. Pick your own path.
For everyone on your camp team, directors, safety leads, program leads and health staff. Take the whole course, or pick only the modules that matter to your role.
01 · Why this course exists
Every person on your camp team has a part in this
New legislation and safety standards are creating real implementation challenges for camps, and most camps have no dedicated safety role and no budget to create one. The Safety Navigator built Navigating Camp Safety to close that gap. It gives everyone who plays a part in safety at a camp, whether or not that is a formal title, the knowledge, the tools, and the peer network to turn safety requirements into everyday practice themselves.
The course assumes no prior safety, legal, or clinical background. Every concept is translated into steps any member of the camp team can act on between staff briefings, and every module ships with a tool, template, or resource participants can put to use straight away. In keeping with our mission, the course is free to camps, with no cost and no seat limit.
02 · How the course works
- Runs
- October 6 to December 15, 2026
- Every session
- 1:00 PM ET
- Length
- Two to three hours
- Missed one
- Everything will be available for replay
- Cost
- Free, no seat limit
Live attendance counts toward certification, and an equivalent contribution can be agreed at enrollment.
Start here
Every camp begins with its own risk profile
Week 1 is a live, hands-on session using our interactive risk assessment tool. It produces an initial risk profile and points each camp toward the modules that matter most in its own context. From there, participants build a Camp Safety Roadmap progressively across the course and submit it in Week 10, a working, board-ready safety plan by the final session.
03 · Pick your own path
Three pathways, one camp can use all three
The course is deliberately built for more than one kind of participant. Three pathways let everyone at the same camp engage at the depth that fits their role, and a camp can use all three at once.
Full certification
Anyone holding safety responsibility, titled or not
What is required
80 percent live attendance across all 12 modules or an agreed equivalent, and the completed Camp Safety Roadmap.
Leadership top and tail
Camp directors, executive directors and senior leadership
What is required
Week 1, then Weeks 9 and 10. Set the direction at the start, then review the roadmap your team brings back.
Choose your own adventure
Program, health, kitchen and site staff
What is required
Individual modules matched to the gaps identified in your camp's Week 1 risk assessment.
Certification
Available to participants who complete the full pathway. It requires attendance at a minimum of 80 percent of sessions live, or an equivalent contribution agreed at enrollment, and submission of the completed Camp Safety Roadmap in Week 10.
Who this is for
- Camp directors and executive leadership
- Safety leads, titled or not
- Facilitators and partner organizations
- Counselors, program, health and site staff
05 · Module by module
What each module sets out to do
Each module is accompanied by a tool, template, or resource participants can use straight away, and any member of the camp team can join the modules that matter to their role. Full learning outcomes are available on request.
Built to be used, not filed
Every module is translated into steps anyone on the camp team can act on between staff briefings, and every one goes live with a tool, template, or resource you can put to use straight away.
Bring your camp on the course
The course is free, with no seat limit. Twelve live modules across ten weeks, starting Tuesday, October 6, 2026. Register your camp before the season gets away from you.
Register your camp nowIn partnership with
Navigating Camp Safety is delivered by The Safety Navigator in partnership with the American Camp Association. The course is free to camps, with no cost and no seat limit.