For Boys and Girls - Established 1914 - In the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains

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Employment

• Staff Application
• Staff Contract
• Comments from Counselors

The next best thing to being a kid again…

Camp Dixie hires only men and women who enjoy being a positive role model for children while working with them in the outdoors. Since children are easily influenced and tend to follow the examples set for them, everyone who works at Camp Dixie needs to have strong character traits, morals and values. You may have all the experience and training in the world but what is most importance to us is your character, then your qualifications and experience because we are a very conservative camp with lots of traditions

Staff Requirements

As a counselor you need to:

• be intuitive to each child's needs
• help them to feel understood, accepted and loved
• take a sincere interest in each camper
• let them know you are there for them
• care for them equally without favoritism
• motivate children to try new activities
• develop skills and interest in familiar as well as unfamiliar pursuits
• provide campers with a sense of accomplishments
• develop ones sensitivity to others
• provide opportunities for meaningful relationships
• teach them right from wrong
• develop positive character traits by example

As a member of our staff you must accept children for who they are, their difficult qualities as well as their positive ones, their areas of incompetency and their competent skills. By accepting the camper as a whole, you can help the campers grow physically, mentally and socially. One of the special benefits of being a counselor is seeing the children grow and mature while in your care.

As a counselor you have a rare opportunity to contribute in a positive way to one's growth through the leadership you provide and the warm friendly compassion you show to all.

You have probably heard a mother's work is never done. There will be days when you might feel the same, but if you truly enjoy having an opportunity to play an important role in one's life then you will find your experience to be a "most rewarding one."

Comments from Counselors

I am going to miss Camp Dixie so much after I leave. I just wanted to thank you for giving me this opportunity and putting so much faith in me. This has been the best summer of my life and working here did not ever compare to what I thought this would be like. I love how we are all one big family and everyone truly cares about the other. I feel truly blessed to have worked here, and Camp Dixie will always have a very special place in my heart.

J. Gladden
Georgia Southern University

I can't thank you enough for allowing me to experience Camp Dixie this summer. I had no idea that I would find a quiet refuge from the crazy world and a second family. The things you do for the children are truly remarkable. Camp Dixie will always be special to me.

J. Parrot
Georgia Tech University

I began working at Camp Dixie as a part-time counselor six years ago, but my connections to the camp go back much further. My wife worked at Dixie as a counselor during the mid ‘70’s and continues to occasionally assist with the camp a few weekends per year. Additionally, her father was a camper at the boys’ camp during the 1930’s when he rode the train up from Louisiana.

I fell in love with camp my first summer. There are few places in Georgia as pretty and as peaceful as Camp Dixie. While its calm beauty first attracted me, what I most enjoy most about Camp Dixie are the days and evenings filled with the sounds of children enjoying nature and each other’s company. Seeing the campers have fun away from the asphalt and steel of the city, watching them swim and canoe in the lake, and seeing them mature over the years into intelligent, responsible young men and women are experiences that I look forward to each year.

S. Mullins
U. Tenn & GA State U. Graduate