Covid-19 Guidelines

COVID-19 Overview

Symptoms

Hygiene

Arrival and Departure

Arrival

Departure

Screening Methods

Screening Campers

Screening Staff

Personal Care Considerations

Facility Maintenance.

Kitchen and Food Service

Maintenance

Program Considerations

Groups Size and Volunteers

Sleeping Arrangements

Activity Schedules

Resources

COVID-19 Overview

Symptoms

People with COVID-19 have had a wide range of symptoms reported – ranging from mild symptoms to severe illness. These symptoms may appear 2-14 days after exposure to Coronavirus:

Fever
Cough
Shortness of breath or difficulty breathing
Chills
Repeated shaking with chills
Muscle pain
Headache
Sore throat
New loss of taste or smell
Sneezing and Congestion

Individuals aged 65 or older and people with underlying conditions are at higher risk for severe complications. If your camper is over 65 or has an underlying condition that puts them at high risk for complications, please consider keeping your camper home.

Hygiene

Hand hygiene is important in stopping the spread of all communicable diseases, including COVID-19. Wash hands with soap and water for at least 20 seconds. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers with at least 60% alcohol can be used if soap and water are not readily available. Please use extra care in washing hands before the following activities:

Before and after engaging in any kind of personal care routine
Before preparing or serving food and drinks
Before and after mealtimes, or helping feel a camper
When entering a new building or transitioning to a new activity
After using the restroom
After blowing one’s nose, or sneezing or coughing
After handling garbage

The program director will review proper hand hygiene with campers at the beginning of every session. Posters describing proper hand washing techniques will also be posted near all hand washing stations.

Arrival and Departure

Arrival

In communications prior to the start of our summer sessions, all campers will be assigned a check-in time slot. This will help prevent all campers from arriving at once and crowding our facility during screening.

Upon arrival, our Unit Directors will receive the camper’s luggage and bedding. Campers and their families will enter the great hall, where their paperwork will be reviewed and they will be screened. Tables will be arranged eight feet apart to ensure proper social distancing.

All campers will be screened by a registered nurse before being allowed into any common spaces in the facility. No family will be allowed into any common spaces in the facility, with exception to the screening area. All tables will be disinfected before lunch.

Departure

Campers will eat breakfast, then participate in recreational activities while they wait for pick-up. CTT will utilize both the Rec Room and Dining Hall to ensure that proper social distancing standards are met.

Caregivers will be assigned a check-out time prior to the beginning of a session. When they arrive, they will be instructed to stay in their cars or outside the dining hall. Unit Directors will greet them and radio for their camper for departure. Campers will be brought outside by their counselors.

Unit directors will also be responsible for retrieving and loading all luggage into vehicles. All medications will be returned to caregivers, and they will sign their camper out.

Screening Methods

Screening Campers

A registered nurse will screen all incoming campers.

The nurse take each camper’s temperature and will ask each camper or parent/guardian on behalf of the camper if they have experienced any of the COVID-19 symptoms:

Have you had a fever of 100° or above in the last 14 days?
Have you recently experienced coughing or shortness of breath?
Have you recently experienced loss of taste or smell?
Have you been out of the state or country in the last 14 days?

In communications with caregivers prior to the beginning of the session, ask that all campers have their temperatures taken prior to departure, in order to ensure an accurate baseline. Tuolumne Trails reserves the right to send any camper with a fever over 100° or other potential COVID-19 symptoms home.

In addition to screening for coronavirus, the camp nurse will also review all medications and evaluate the camper for:

Lice
Blood pressure
Heart rate

Any campers with an elevated temperature will be reported to the nurse for further screening and monitoring. In the event that a camper has a sustained fever and other COVID-19 symptoms, they will be isolated and all caregivers will be called for pick-up immediately. Tuolumne Trails will then implement our Outbreak Response Plan. For more information, refer to our guide for Communicable Disease Management.

All campers who attend camp must be fully vaccinated, unless medically exempt from vaccination. Campers who are medically exempt must show proof of a PCR test taken within 72 hours of their first day of camp. Fully vaccinated campers are encouraged to take a PCR or Antigen rapid test prior to arrival.

Screening Staff

CTT relies on seasonal staffing to facilitate our summer program. Our staff come from all over the country. All staff will be asked to travel only if they are healthy and have not come into contact with anyone who has been sick in the last 14 days. Tuolumne Trails will require that all staff quarantine on-site ten days prior to the first session of camp.

Staff members are to report to the nurse if they are feeling ill. Tuolumne Trails will insure that any staff member who is showing symptoms of feeling ill is immediately isolated.

All staff are required to be up-to-date with vaccination and will be screened by the nurse prior to each camp session. For more information about staff health screening, view the evaluation form.

Personal Care Considerations

As a camp that specializes in serving individuals with special needs, Tuolumne Trails already has extensive training on the use and disposal of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE). All staff that engage in personal care are required to utilize PPE provided by Tuolumne Trails. In addition to training on PPE, CTT staff also learn proper hygiene and disinfecting procedures to minimize the risk of communicable diseases.

Tuolumne Trails follows CDC guidelines for masking and PPE usage. If the community level of COVID-19 cases are high, all staff and campers will be required to wear masks (surgical or KN95) in all communal indoor spaces. Masks will not be required in cabins or when sleeping.

Facility Maintenance

Kitchen and Food Service

Our kitchen and food service staff are our only non-residential employees during our summer program. In order to minimize community spread of COVID-19, our kitchen staff will have no contact with campers.

Tuolumne Trails will use the following strategies:

Campers are not allowed inside the kitchen.
All food is served at the kitchen window by staff, who all utilize PPE while handling food.
Any food served on the salad bar outside the kitchen window will be served by staff wearing PPE.
Markers will be placed on the ground every 6 feet, ensuring that proper social distancing is followed.
Cabin groups will be required to eat their meals together.
Tables will be spaced 8 feet apart.

Tuolumne Trails will ensure that all kitchen staff and ServSafe certified and up-to-date on all cleaning and disinfecting procedures. The Maintenance Manager will work closely with kitchen staff to ensure that all kitchen equipment is cleaned and disinfected after each meal, and that all frequently used facilities (door handles, tables, restroom facilities, etc.) in the great hall are cleaned throughout the day. For more information about our cleaning and sanitizing procedures, please view our Turnover Procedures.

Maintenance

Tuolumne Trails already has high standards for the cleaning and disinfecting procedures used to keep our facility clean for our campers. Because of our work with the special needs community over the last twelve years, we have already committed ourselves to doing our best to limit the spread of communicable diseases by maintaining a clean and hygienic environment. To view our usual procedures and cleaning products we use, please see our Turnover Procedures.

In addition to our usual maintenance procedures, Tuolumne Trails will also:

Disinfect all frequently used areas at least 3x per day, including door handles, restroom facilities, and dining areas.
Require that all maintenance staff wear gloves while removing garbage or other potentially hazardous waste.
Remove any hazardous waste from all restroom facilities once per day.
Initiate shower times for all cabin groups. Bathhouses will be disinfected between each group.
Ensure that all areas are thoroughly disinfected between each camp session.
Ensure that fans stay on in all frequently used areas (including sleeping areas) in between sessions to ensure air circulation and ventilation.

Program Considerations

Groups Size and Volunteers

In order to comply with social distancing requirements, Tuolumne Trails will lower their maximum number of campers in each session from 42 to 32. This will ensure that our large group numbers do not exceed 50 at any time.

Tuolumne Trails is a closed campus once a session begins. Tuolumne Trails will not be taking any non-residential volunteers in order to minimize the risk of community spread.

Sleeping Arrangements

All campers will sleep in cabins with their assigned counselors. There will be no more than six campers in each cabin, and all campers will sleep in bottom bunks to ensure that there is enough distance between campers. All individuals will be asked to sleep head-to-feet, to maximize the distance between all campers.

All beds are at least 5 feet apart. Fans will be turned on high at all times to ensure proper ventilation in all sleeping areas.

Activity Schedules

Tuolumne Trails will do it’s best to make sure that most program activities run as small groups. CTT will employ these strategies:

No more than 15 campers will participate in an indoor program activity at a time, in order to comply with social distancing regulations.
All cabin groups will attend activities together, to ensure that their assigned counselors are able to provide any personal care needs they may have.
Program facilitators will do their best to utilize all outdoor areas, to ensure proper air circulation and ventilation.
All large group activities (i.e. dances, campfires, talent show, etc.) will take place outdoors.