2026 Alameda County 4-H Summer Camp Youth Director & Youth Staff Application

Are you applying to be a Youth Camp Director or for a Youth Camp Staff position? ✻

Last Name: ✻

First Name: ✻

Phone:

(This should be the best number to reach the youth staff member.) ✻

Personal email address for all communication about Camp Staff. ✻

Club: ✻

Gender: ✻

Age on December 31, 2025 ✻

How many years have you attended 4-H camp? ✻

Shirt Size: (One T-shirt is included with camp registration)

Shirts are not guaranteed for waitlist registrations received after May 12, 2026.

A = Adult Size

Y = Youth Size

Do you have any food allergies or preferences that you would like the camp kitchen to know about?

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Is there additional information that you would like the camp kitchen to know about? ✻

Do you have any physical, medical, or mental health needs you would like to share with the camp health officer? ✻

First Choice Camp Staff Position: ✻

Second Choice Camp Staff Position: ✻

Third Choice Camp Staff Position: ✻

Other than youth director, what do you view as the most crucial staff positions?

Please choose three. ✻

If any, list the 4-H Camp Staff positions you have held and other camp leadership experiences: ✻

Current Leadership Roles (e.g. Teen Leader, Leadership Development Project member, Committee Chair, Council Member, County Ambassador...)  Please list all Roles you currently hold. ✻

Other previous years 4-H Leadership experiences (e.g. Club Officer, Junior/Teen Leader, Leadership Development Project Member...) ✻

As a youth camp staff member, it is crucial that you attend staff planning meetings. These meetings will be held weekly via Zoom or in person with additional meetings as needed.  

What is your availability for additional meetings on Saturday or Sunday - which day will NOT work for you?

* Some staff positions require additional meetings. ✻

During camp, what do you believe is the most important responsibility of the youth staff members? ✻

Do you have any experience with using "agreements" in group settings?  ✻

Please share your understanding of how group agreements work. ✻

At camp, youth staff is expected to be an example to other campers. Describe a situation where others kids were not following the rules and you had to step in (this could be at Camp or elsewhere). ✻

In what way can camp staff encourage other campers to follow the 4-H member code of conduct? ✻

What type of training would be most helpful in preparing you for your camp staff job? ✻

Parent email address ✻

Parent's phone: ✻

Why do you want to be Youth Director?

1) Name one part of 4-H camp you think is essential and should be continued. Why?

2) Name one part of 4-H camp you would like to change. Why? How would you do it?

4) What training or experience have you pursued that would help you be an effective Youth Director?

5) What strengths do you bring to this position?

6) What weaknesses do you have related to this position? What are you doing to develop in these areas?

7a) What is the greatest impact you have made on a camper?

7b) What is the greatest impact you have made on a staff member?

7c) What is the greatest impact you have made on an adult 4-H volunteer?

1) You hear that a camper has brought Energy Drinks to camp and plans to share them tonight – so that he and his friends can stay up all night.

2) During the dance, two staff members are in a tight “bear hug,” swaying to the music.

3) Hermione, a nine-year-old girl, has been very quiet and did not eat much lunch. You notice at campers’ choice that she is not participating and has isolated herself from densely populated areas. When you talk to her she starts to cry as she tells you that she doesn't like camp and wants to go home.

4) You are walking to the restroom when you see an adult walking across the camp area. You don’t recognize this adult as one of the 4-H camp chaperones.

5) One of the family heads spends a lot of time talking with her friends, much more than the time she spends with her camp family. She often leaves the other family head unsupported.

6) During the dance, you notice that one of the staffers is making a point of including the younger campers and teaching them some dance moves.

7) You notice that Jim and Erica's camp family is doing really well at all of its activities and all of the members seem really happy. At meals they have more spirit than any other family.

8) It is after campfire and you are walking to your tent. You hear male voices in the girl’s camp area.

9) When it’s time for the dance, you notice that one staff member is wearing extremely short shorts.

10) An adult chaperone has come to you, and reported that a camper has been using “bad words.”

11) At camp staff meetings two of the staffers spend much of their time talking and joking with each other. They are not participating in the meetings and are often disruptive.