The same small set of policies covers every adult and student at Ready2Respond. The team adapted most of them from existing youth-program and school-district documents and adopted them as drafts effective the first day of camp.
Policy or plan | What it covers |
Mission, Vision and Values | The standard that applies to everyone |
Code of Conduct | Expected behavior for students and adults; prohibited items; the going-home process |
Child Abuse Reporting | Mandatory reporting duties for every adult |
Protection of Minors and Reporting Procedures | Screening, supervision ratios, two-adult rules and reporting steps |
Team Oregon Build Safety Manual | Tool, PPE and job-site rules, updated in June 2026 with evacuation details |
Emergency Management Plan | Communication, medical emergencies, smoke and heat, fire, flood, earthquake, evacuation and sheltering, missing child, reunification, threats, utility failures, hazardous materials |
Photo and Media Release | Consent for images and interviews, collected with registration |
The student version of the code of conduct, printed in the Student Activity Guide, is short. Students agree to treat themselves and others with respect and dignity; maintain a safe and supportive environment; be present and professional; promote positive messages; communicate clearly; and follow camp and host safety rules. They agree not to use profanity or share inappropriate stories, talk down to others, arrive unprepared or late, or promote negative work habits.
At the opening briefing, Eric Wright, the education sponsor’s administrator, explained the reasoning in plain terms. Anything that would make a student unsafe around machinery would “get you sent home real fast,” he said, so if a student had brought something prohibited, this was the moment to turn it in, no questions asked. He also asked students to keep their language clean, noting that for many people profanity recalls past abuse. Cherie Clark later made the same point from a safety angle: a lineman training program had told her that profanity is not clear, not concise and not correct, and on a dangerous job nobody knows what a shouted curse means.