Camp Jobs

Now Hiring for the 2012 Camp Season

We are now hiring for the 2012 Camp season.  Camp openings are listed, along with other Courage Center openings, on our Job Openings page.

Meaningful Work in an Outdoor Setting

Courage Center is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  Join our dynamic camp staff to provide mentoring and role modeling, while making sure campers with disabilities have a fun, safe experience. Candidates for summer staff should have a genuine desire to work in an outdoor setting with children and adults with disabilities.

Camp Courage serves children and adults with physical disabilities, and youth with speech, language and/or hearing impairments. Campers learn, grow, make friends and have fun in safe and accessible natural settings.

You’ll be part of a mission-driven organization that empowers people with physical disabilities to reach for their full potential in every aspect of life.

Working at Camp Courage You Will

• Gain experience in working with campers with disabilities.
• Make a difference in the lives of campers.
• Build lifetime friendships.
• Live in a cabin with campers and/or staff.
• Get three meals a day and some snacks.
• Receive CPR and First Aid Training (available for certain positions).

Camp Courage Staff

• Have a high level of positive energy.
• Have experience in outdoor recreation or youth leadership.
• Want to work hard, play hard and have fun.
• Have or would like to have experience, competence and sensitivity in working with people with physical disabilities and people of diverse races and cultures.
• Are guided by the vision that one day, all people will live, work, learn and play in a community based on abilities, not disabilities.

Camp Courage - Maple Lake, Minn.   (map)

Camp Courage is located on 305 acres of beautiful lakeshore, woods and fields near Maple Lake, Minnesota (about 50 miles west of Minneapolis),  with accessible cabins in an accessible setting.