The camp strives for an atmosphere that enhances a child’s sense of belonging, accomplishment, security, and self-esteem.  Counselors are trained to deal with the usual issues that arise when children interact.  This ensures each camper’s enjoyable camp day. If a camper is found to be repeatedly interfering with the enjoyment of other campers or staff members, the Village Director will intervene reminding the camper of his/her responsibility to behave in an appropriate manner.  The Village Director may choose to enforce an appropriate disciplinary action (i.e. time out, a discussion, loss of free time, etc.) which is consistent with the philosophy of the camp and which supports the camper’s dignity.
 
If a camper should continuously disregard the Village Director’s rules and maintains a pattern of disruptive behavior, the Village Director will then refer the camper to the Camp Directors, who will immediately notify the parents of the disruptive behaviors and the parents will be asked for assistance in developing a course of action that will be effective in changing the behaviors to appropriate ones.  A camper who does not respond to this intervention will be considered insubordinate.
 
In keeping with the philosophy of maintaining a positive experience for our campers and to ensure the safety of each child, we have a no tolerance policy for extreme behaviors.  These behaviors include, but are not limited to, insubordination (as described above), possession of a weapon or any dangerous material (fireworks, etc), possession of an illegal substance (i.e. drugs, alcohol, drug paraphernalia, etc.), sexual and/or verbal abuse (including racial slurs or comments regarding sexual orientation), or violation of the “hands-off” policy, which states that no camper is to make physical contact with another camper in a manner that is inappropriate to a day camp setting.
 
We believe that if campers are provided with positively structured activities, they will respond with positive behaviors. We have had very few experiences in which a camper’s experience at Mountain Mist Day Camp needed to be shortened or terminated.  However, for the well being of each camper and the camp as a whole, the Camp Directors will either suspend or expel if there is a violation of the camp’s no tolerance policy.