Camp Fire Expands System for Quality Improvement

While program assessment and staff training are valuable but sometimes daunting tasks, Camp Fire USA is expanding both through a partnership with the Forum.

At a recent training summit, the David P. Weikart Center for Youth Program Quality, a division of the Forum, helped build Camp Fire’s on-the-ground capacity to assess program quality and carry out skill-building opportunities for staff and volunteers at Camp Fire councils across the country. Essentially, selected Camp Fire employees are now trained to conduct and oversee certain types of assessments and training for other Camp Fire staff.

This effort is part of Camp Fire USA’s Quality Improvement System, which is modeled on the Weikart Center’s evidence-based Youth Program Quality Intervention. For more on the Camp Fire initiative, see page five of this newsletter. For more on the Weikart Center’s Youth Program Quality Intervention, go here.