Elisheva Layman Salant has been named Director of Community Care and Inclusion.  Elisheva has made a significant impact since joining us in the fall to launch our Tikvah pilot program—designed to offer campers with intellectual or developmental delays a complete scope of Camp activities—as well as overseeing Breira B’Ramah, and has already spoken to many of you as you plan for this summer.  In her expanded role, Elisheva will be supervising our camper care team, intake, admissions and behavior management.

As part of our commitment to camper care, we are adding two important roles this summer - Rosh Yoetz Aleph and Rosh Yoetz Bet (Heads of Camper Care for A-side and B-side).  We are excited to have talented Ramah Berkshires veterans filling these roles - Yaron Goldrich, a school psychologist, and Vanessa Kerchner, an experienced social worker.  Both Yaron and Vanessa are skilled mental health professionals with a demonstrated track record of providing care and support to our campers and staff in their prior roles at Camp as yoatzim (camper care specialists).  Yaron and Vanessa will work closely to train and support the counselors before and during the summer and will oversee our edot yoatzim.