We raise up emergent leaders who deploy whole-system, regenerative strategies through immersive learning in embedded community contexts.

BAM Camps use gardens as a learning tool and framework for making sense of the world. BAM campers engage with nature in immersive learning environments, building a foundation of interwoven skills in order to tackle big problems at a hands-on scale. BAM is where whole-picture thinking, consciously unconventional problem-solving, civic engagement, and muddy hands collide.

As you prepare to come and serve as a volunteer at BAM Camp, we want you to stop and think. Take a few minutes and look beyond your life today and what will happen tomorrow for you. You are telling us you are ready, willing, and able to commit the campers that will be coming to camp this year. Each of our campers is seeking a new, enjoyable, and long sought after opportunity to grow outside the normal boundaries of their everyday existence. You are the conduit that can provide them with nurturing, love, ambition, compassion, praise, grace, and mercy. Without your commitment to be here for them, they will not see what they can do, what they can hope to be, and how they can grow with your love, care, and guidance. You will be their encourager, and you will also grow and feel the blessings of your service.

VOLUNTEER CODE OF ETHICS AND GUIDELINES 

While acting in our capacity as a volunteer of BAM Camps, the following rules shall apply: 

1. Smoking or using tobacco products in the presence of minors is prohibited. 

2. Using, possessing, or being under the influence of alcohol, illegal, or illicit drugs will not be tolerated. 

3. Volunteers of minors shall not abuse such minors, including: 

   • Any direct observations or evidence of sexual activity in the presence of or in association with a minor; 

   • Any display or demonstration of sexual activity, abuse, insinuation of abuse, or evidence of abusive conduct towards a minor; 

   • Sexual advances or sexual activity of any kind between any person and a minor; 

   • Sexual advances or sexual activity of any kind to a minor(s); including inappropriate contact or relationship through Social Media Networks or texting. 

   • Improper use of Social Media (in a sexual context) can create both civil and criminal liability for behavior that never even reaches the point of improper physical behavior; 

   • Infliction of physical abuse or bodily injury to a minor; 

   • Physical neglect of a minor, including failure to provide adequate supervision in relation to the activities of BAM Camps; 

   • Mental or emotional injury to a minor; 

   • The presence or possession of obscene or pornographic materials at any function of BAM Camps; 

   • The presence, possession, or being under the influence of any illegal, illicit drugs; and 

   • The consumption of or being under the influence of alcohol while leading or participating in a function for minors of BAM Camps. 

4. Volunteers shall not participate in private or one-on-one conversations with minors in person or through technology including the use of texting and social media applications outside of the official BAM Channels. 

5. Volunteers must treat all people of all races, religious, and cultures with respect and consideration. 

6. Volunteers shall not use or tolerate the use of profanity. 

7. Volunteers must be free of physical and psychological conditions that might adversely affect minor’s health, including, but not limited to, contagious disease. 

8. Volunteers will portray a positive role model for minors by maintaining an attitude of respect, loyalty, patience, courtesy, and maturity. 

9. Volunteers will be expected to act and react with love and understanding in all situations. 

10. Volunteers will do everything in their power to avoid being put in a situation where they are alone with a minor other than their own including the context at BAM Camps. 

11. I understand that as a volunteer with or in the presence of minors for BAM Camps I will be subject to a background check, including criminal history. I will also be subject to a yearly S.O.R. which checks Sexual Offender Records. 

12. I understand that any violation of this code may be grounds for removal as a volunteer at BAM Camps.