CIT & Interns

Interested candidates should email Ruthie Allen, Summer Programs Coordinator, at ExtendedLearning@cfsnc.org, with:

• a letter of interest, including
  • reasons for your interest in this role
  • examples of a time when you've been a good follower and/or leader
  • your course preferences for CIT placement
• brief resume, including
  • any school and/or other extracurricular activities
  • any babysitting and/or other experiences with children
  • any particular skills (from CPR to magic!)
  • any particular hobbies and/or other interests
  • your email address

Please have a parent create a new CampInTouch account or, if you were a student in a previous year, go to your account.

If you've never been a CIT or you're 12 and want to get a head start for next summer, please enroll in one of the Leadership Challenge sessions offered Weeks 1, 4 and 6. In very rare circumstances, if you cannot attend one of the early leadership training weeks, you may still be considered as a CIT depending on your experience, but you will still need to take the Leadership Challenge later in the summer.

On the online enrollment form you must select at least two weeks to serve as a CIT. If a session is full and you end up on the Waitlist, please check back with us...summer plans do change and we may have openings.

Note for Parents: We'll confirm your student's CIT position via email after we receive the:

• emailed resume and letter of interest
• online enrollment and tuition

If you've previously served as a CIT, you don't need to send a resume, but please do email Ruthie Allen, Summer Programs Coordinator, at ExtendedLearning@cfsnc.org another letter of interest explaining why you would like to repeat this experience. So, no resume, only a letter AND CampInTouch CIT registration for the weeks you'd like to serve.

We're so glad you want to return to CFS Summer Programs!

CIT applicants should peruse the course offerings and select the classes or types of classes (art, outdoors, sports, etc.) they are interested in assisting. Please include a rank-ordered list of your preferences in your letter of interest. We can't guarantee choices, but we do our best to accommodate your areas of strength and interest.

You won't be placed in programs serving your same age, although you're welcome to take a Summer Programs course as a student during weeks you are not serving as a CIT.

CITs, your day begins at 8:15 am (8:00 on Monday) with a meeting where you, fellow CITs, and our CIT/Intern Coordinator engage in leadership activities, role-playing exercises, class debriefings, and preparation to facilitate our all-program morning meeting at 9:00 am. There, our CITs, depending on their interests and strengths, share announcements, lead an ice-breaker song or activity, and emcee the occasional talent show.

For the rest of the day, you're generally with the class to which you've been assigned. You will have some clean-up responsibility around the Gym cafe after lunch, which also offers another check-in opportunity with the CIT/Intern Coordinator and your peers to share challenges and successes.

We work with you as you practice leading groups of children and following directions from your mentor teacher. We check in with you during the day to make sure you're on the right track, listen to your input, and support your work. By the end of the week, we hope you will feel confident in your own leadership and problem-solving skills, that you will have developed a sense of your own leadership style, and that you will have learned some new skills from your mentors. We hope you'll find your service valuable both as tangible experience and for your resume.

Parents needing Extended Day care as late as 5:45 pm can enroll their CITs without cost; in return, we ask them to be positive role models and help the Extended Day staff in fostering fun activities.

Beginning in the spring, interested candidates should send to Ruthie Allen, Summer Programs Coordinator, at ExtendedLearning@cfsnc.org, a:

• letter of interest, including
  • your weeks of availability
  • whether you want to work as an unpaid Intern during the day and/or as a paid staffer for Extended Day AM and/or PM
• a brief resume
  • listing any experiences with children and other pertinent activities

We assess the candidacies of interested students at periodic intervals on a rolling basis.

Once accepted, we'll invite you to use our CampInTouch system to enroll in the weeks you'd like to serve. The Intern Program has its own entry distinct from the Summer Programs drop-down menu — please look a bit further down that page. Please enter 21Intern when prompted for a code.

Thanks so much for your interest in a CFS Summer Programs internship!

While the Intern Program is unpaid, there is opportunity for interested high school and college students to be paid as Extended Day staff members, working from 8:00 to 9:00 am and/or from 3:00 to 5:45 pm. 

In addition to providing critical day-to-day support, we also try to provide work for our interns that speak to individual strengths and interests, giving significant responsibility whenever possible. We do our best to nurture our interns as thoughtful and responsible young leaders.

We want you to take seriously your commitment to CFS Summer Programs and know we take seriously our commitment to you. We hope you'll find your tenure valuable both as tangible experience and for your resume.