young adult life & job skills
JOIN “KIT” Kennebec’s Indie Team
Kennebec Indie Team (KIT) young Adult life & job skills training includes:
- Creating a breakfast menu, finding/creating recipes and grocery lists
- Shopping for groceries from our chef’s storeroom & kitchen, or in town at the supermarket
- Attending a breakfast cooking lesson & kitchen safety lesson with the camp chef
- Preparing, cooking, and enjoying breakfast in the Chalet
- Doing their own laundry
- Keeping the Chalet and their rooms clean & tidy
- Working in the garden, kitchen, maintenance, at activities and camper cabins
- Earning Kenne-Dollars that can be used for treats, Kennebec clothing & privileges
- Preparing, participating in a mock interview, learning how to answer questions
For participants to get the most out of K.I.T. life and job skills training, they should be enrolled for the full eight weeks – although if there is room, we will consider offering four, five, six and seven week sessions as well. As the Kennebec Independence Team program is always evolving, please share your comments or suggestions about this program with us.
We developed the K.I.T program to smooth the transition to adulthood for our campers through hands on teaching of young adult life & job skills. Campers become more independent, assume responsibilities in camp, feel the satisfaction of having their work valued, all while enjoying a great Kennebec summer. The members of the K.I.T. team and their counsellors are the envy of campers and staff alike, as they live in two newly renovated hilltop buildings: The Chalet & The Summit. The Chalet has a large kitchen, where K.I.T campers and staff prepare many of their meals. The Chalet and Summit both have showers and bathrooms, and the Chalet has a flat screen TV, deck and living room area. The Chalet looks, feels and operates like a home, so that the K.I.T participants learn how to share household responsibilities like cooking their own breakfasts and keeping the Chalet clean.
KIT campers have the opportunity to design and create amazing products. KIT campers love working on their projects and can't wait to sell them on parent days.
KIT campers learning to BBQ while cooking a cabin dinner at Camp Kennebec.
KIT Campers playing a prank and going trick or treating on the Green Line at Camp Kennebec.
K.I.T participants earn Kennebec dollars for their hard work that they exchange for snacks, Kennebec clothing and special excursions. By far the most popular use of Kennebec dollars so far has been to purchase a K.I.T-only, out-of-camp trip for ice cream and other treats.
To strike the right balance between fun and learning, we use two of the five activity periods each day to focus on practical, independent living and job skills training– but we add our special Kennebec style to make sure those sessions are fun. The three remaining periods are activity choices, so K.I.T. participants can water ski, horseback ride and participate in all the Kennebec activities and special events they’ve come to love. Some evenings, K.I.T. members participate in camp-wide programs like movies, dances and talent shows. On other nights, they build an evening program that they choose, with staff help.
Spending Arden Fair Profit on a Treat
