Camp Maverick: Rec N’ Read is a collaborative, interprofessional practice in which multiple health and educational disciplines work together to provide recreation and literacy support to youth regardless of socioeconomic status or disability across a variety of clinical service models. This is a full day, summer camp designed to increase literacy skills in elementary-aged youth through literacy and recreation activities. We also use Camp as training for interprofessional practice and education for University students, both undergraduate and graduate. Undergraduate and graduate students enroll in a 1-credit summer course. Prior to the start of camp, the students completed a series of online tutorials regarding literacy intervention and recreation activity facilitation. The online tutorials required students to show an understanding of the literacy intervention practices and begin to explore leadership facilitation best practices. Questions on the pre-training assessments included reading narrative examples and identifying leadership skills. The assessments also examined the steps to the literacy intervention used at camp including recognition, spelling, comprehension, and writing. Students then completed two full days of face-to-face training. The face-to-face learning provided experiential opportunities and the ability to work collaboratively with students from other disciplines to better understand how treatment teams help meet the needs of patients or participants. The students provided direct supervision of the children daily. The children attending camp have been identified as needing assistance with social skills and literacy skills related to a disability or delay in either or both areas.
We administered assessments during intensive training regarding the retention of the information provided.
In this session tools and techniques for creating patient-focused programming, informed by data collected from parents, participants, and students. This program has been funded by Otto Bremer Trust Foundation, Theresa Foundation, and Mankato Clinic Foundation.
Disclosures:
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Jennifer Mackey, Cathy Leslie, Elise Townsend, Alison Naber, Susan Anderson, Kathrin Eliot, Karen Luce, Kathryn Konrad, Whitney Lucas Molitor, Tracy Cleveland, Sabina Kuperschmidt, Kory Zimney, Chelsea Wesner, Brooke Burk, Megan Mahowald
declare no vested interest in or affiliation with any commercial interest offering financial support for this interprofessional continuing education activity, or any affiliation with a commercial interest whose philosophy could potentially bias their presentation.
