In Irkutsk Region, training of 350 student counselors began as part of the project Counselor Summer 2014, which will help young people get temporary work in children's summer camps.
The City Committee of the All-Russian public organization “Russian Union of Youth,” within the framework of the “Counselor Summer-2014” project, has begun training 350 counselors from among students who will work in children’s health camps during the summer season of 2014. The project, which promotes temporary employment for young people, won the regional competition of original variable programs in the field of implementing state youth policy.“The main task of the ‘Counselor Summer – 2014’ project is to prepare student youth as well as possible for subsequent employment as counselors in children’s camps. At the moment, 350 students from the leading universities of the region are undergoing training. Future counselors have a great opportunity to develop summer recreation programs for children themselves,” said Ivan Belkov, First Secretary of the City Committee of the All-Russian public organization “Russian Union of Youth.”
The training course includes mandatory attendance at special lectures and instructor seminars at the leading universities of the Irkutsk Region. At the end of the academic year, the students will take a final assessment, based on the results of which the best will receive certificates and become mentors for more than 10,000 girls and boys in children’s health camps of the Angara region.
The regional competition of original variable programs in the field of implementing state youth policy was held by the Ministry of Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Policy of the Irkutsk Region. In total, five projects from various public organizations of the region were supported.
Based on materials from the press service of the Youth Policy Department of the Irkutsk Region