SCHOOLAGE COUNSELOR

At the Madison Area YMCA, the School-Age Counselor is responsible for planning and supervising recreational activities for children ages 5 to 12 after school.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

• Be responsible for planning and supervising group activities and individual children under the guidance of the School-Age Coordinators.
• Keep information about children and families confidential.
• Promotes a safe environment to prevent and reduce injuries.
• Builds relationships with parents, children, and co-workers; encourages families to build relationships and to understand the YMCA mission.
• Adapts to the different ages, abilities, temperaments, cultural styles, languages, and other individual character.
• Responds to the range of children's feelings.
• Asks and answers questions that encourage children to think for themselves.
• Encourages children to do as much as possible for themselves. Helps children when they cooperate, share, care for materials, or work on activities.
• Uses varied approaches and shares resources to help children learn and problem solve.
• Gives children many chances to choose what they will do, how they will do it, and with whom.

Supervision of Youth:

• Adhere to policies related to boundaries with youth.
• Attend required abuse risk management training.
• Adhere to procedures related to managing high-risk activities and supervising youth.
• Report suspicious or inappropriate behaviors and policy violations.
• Follow mandated abuse reporting requirements.