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Padma Service Trip Chaperone

Role Description

Every service trip includes at least one adult chaperone. The primary responsibilities of trip chaperones are: to travel together with students to trip sites, and serve as liaisons between students and trip leaders. They are also invited, but not required, to lead additional trip elements based on unique interests, abilities, and experience.

Specific Duties of Trip Chaperones:

1-Communicate with Trip Program Leaders

The main contact for trip chaperones is the Trip Program Leader/s. Before and during trips chaperones maintain regular communication to know of all pre-trip meetings and activities, coordinate meeting with students. Before trips begin, chaperones are required to meet with Trip Program leaders to discuss adult trip member behavior protocols.

2-Travelling with Students to/from Trip Locations

Participate in the travel plan prepared by Trip Program Leaders including: meeting students at the airport, managing the buddy system, ensuring students gather at prescribed times and locations to make each flight, maintaining contact information for each family of trip members in case of emergency, communicating with the trip location receiving team after each flight leg and once arrived in final destination.

3-Communicate with Trip Program Leaders During Trips on the Welfare and Morale of Students

Through daily interaction with trip members, and participation in trip activities, trip chaperones are expected to maintain a keen sense of how the trip is going, noticing any concerns: within the group, in small teams, and individuals. During evening check-ins with Trip Program Leaders, chaperones discuss what is going well, and any issues related to inter-student relationships, activities, projects, group morale, and any concerns with trip members mood, participation, behavior, and physical and psychological wellbeing.

4-Coordinate and Implement Solutions Together with Trip Leadership Related to Program Changes, Discipline and Emergency Protocols

In the event of program elements needing to be changed, a behavioral issue needing to be addressed, and emergency of any kind, chaperones work together with Trip Program Leaders to enact action plans based on Padma Organization protocols and standards.

SERVICE TRIP CHAPERONE APPLICATION

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Name *

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Last

Phone Number (Cell Phone) *

Emergency Contact Name *

Emergency Contact Phone Number *

Email *

Home Address *

Available Travel Dates *

Please describe your experience working with adolescents and/or teenagers, this can include your time as a teacher, leading or assisting in extracurricular activities including sports, clubs, outdoor education, field trips, religious groups, volunteer projects, trips etc. *

Describe any training, certifications, or experience that you think may enhance your ability to serve as a trip chaperone or bring additional beneficial elements to a trip. *

Please describe your travel experience domestic and international, and experience camping, backpacking, and with the ocean. *

Have you completed a Youth Protection Program or similar in the last year, please describe? *

When was your last background check performed? *

Do you have any medical considerations that we should be aware of? *

Do you have any medical training/certifications (CPR, Wilderness First Aid, Wilderness First Responder etc)? *

Is there anything else we should know about you? *

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Padma Service Trip Chaperone

SERVICE TRIP CHAPERONE APPLICATION