Role of Staff
This program has been established in order to best use the existing camp's resources to implement it. The Skills have been selected from topics and activities which many camps have been doing previously.
With minimal planning, a camp can implement this program with its existing staff and structure. 
Head camp staff, knowing the talents of their bunk counselors, learning teachers, activity directors, lifeguards, and other staff, can best select those people most qualified to teach the Skills and certify the completion of requirements. While some requirements may indeed be approved by any staff member when appropriate, the designated staff for each Skill should be considered by campers as their main resource in that Skill, as well as the one who must give final approval for completion of that Skill Badge.
In order to make these designated staff members easily identifiable to campers, those staff may wear their respective Badges and Ribbons for those Skills in which they have been designated.
Staff materials:
Tzivos Hashem is making the following resources available to camps to help them efficiently run these programs:
• Guide for the instructor
Click here to download a guide for the Rank and Mitzvah Badge program in camp.
• Tzivos Hashem Handbook
Like previous years, contains the learning material and point scales for earning Ranks and their corresponding Rank Badges.
• Skill Badge Record cards
These cards, which fold into pocket-size, will be for campers to use in tracking their progress in earning their Skill Badges. The cards will include all steps.
• Bunk/Class tracking sheets
For use by the designated staff member for each Badge, this will help them track campers' progress and completion of Rank and Skill Badges, as well as managing Badge distribution. • Rank Badges
Ranks: Private, Sergeant, Sergeant Major, Second Lieutenant, First Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Colonel, General. Two Sergeant Badges are available, one with tzitzis and another with a Shabbos candle, which can be used for boys and girls separately, or for two distinct levels in the Sergeant Rank. For multiple-star Generals, use either Ribbons or additional General rank Badges.
• Skill Badges and Ribbons
Each Skill will have a unique Badge, a round button approximately 1” diameter, with an color image representing that Skill. For Steps Two and Three, red and gold ribbons which can be added to (and held on by) the Badge.
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