Archives June 27, 2009

My Favorite Response to the Flu News!

Written by Kanakuk on June 27, 2009 in all .

I've said it before and will probably be moved to say it again before I go to sleep tonight, but we have the best parents in our Kanakuk family! You send your kids to Kanakuk, you trust us to protect them, endorse the values of your family, and show them the love of Christ. We enjoy the opportunity and often pinch ourselves to make sure it's all real. And then sometimes we hear from you and just laugh. This is an email from a Kamp family and my favorite response to all this flu news:

Thank you for your rational, professional approach to this situation.

As a physician's family, we urge our children to keep their fingers out of their noses and mouths unless they are freshly washed or have a tissue. Although fingers are really handy tools ,it is medically prudent to strive to avoid "planting" things. Perhaps counselors can lend a voice to breaking nail-biting and nasal-mining habits as part of your "keep your body ready for action" health move. Things seem to "take" when a counselor introduced a concept parents have already "planted."

Thank you guys for all you do!


WEll written and great suggestion and it definitely got passed on to all our Directors. Next we can work on getting all our children to change their socks!

It sure is great being on the same team with all of you. Have a great rest of your Saturday!


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Pre-Kamp Screening process Information

Written by Kanakuk on June 27, 2009 in all .

Just wanted to let you know that the following email is getting ready to go out to the next session of Kampers:

Dear Kamp Family,

Your child’s Kamp term is right around the corner. We can’t wait for them to arrive!

We communicated with you in an email on June 26th about the influenza issues we have had in previous terms this summer. This email will give you further details on our new pre-Kamp influenza screening policy. While its not fool proof, we feel it will help us control some illnesses getting into Kamp. It seems to have worked well for this current term. Here’s a quick reminder of how this preventative screening will work.

Before Kampers board one of our Kanakuk Chaperoned charter buses, board a Kanakuk bus at an airport, or are dropped off by their parent’s at a Kamp they will:

1. Be required to submit a completed Health Check Questionnaire signed by a parent or legal guardian. Download the Questionnaire here.
2. Have their temperature taken. (If a Kamper has a temp of 100.5, they are not admitted to Kamp.

Any Kampers who do arrive at the airports and don’t pass the screening will be cared for by Kanakuk personnel and their parents contacted to provide their Kamper private transportation home.

It’s a simple and quick process! With your help this becomes one of the most important steps in our effort to assure a safe environment for everyone.

Our Kamp-wide influenza protocol going forward involves immediate separation of Kampers with flu-like symptoms, personal care and screening by on-site medical professionals, parental contact and testing for Influenza Type A. If the Type A quick test comes back positive, then Kampers are sent home with their parents. We are also pursuing an aggressive cleaning regimen and educating staff and Kampers on the proper use of water bottles and other personal items.

To speed up the screening process for your child’s arrival, please download the required Health Check Questionnaire from the link below or find it when you login to www.mykanakuk.com. We also pasted it at the bottom of this email for your convenience. It will need to come with your child!

Download Health Check Questionnaire

Thank you for your understanding and patience, we appreciate your support!

Blessings,
Doug Goodwin
Chief Operating Officer
Kanakuk Ministries


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9:49 - Thanks for the encouragement

Written by Kanakuk on June 27, 2009 in all .

At 9:49 I responded to a Kamp Dad who's in the "Biz", a PR guy at a university. He's my friend on FB and sent a message of encouragement and advice as someone who just recently dealt with this issue at his job. Here's my response:

Huge to get your message and know that you've been down this path and understand! I really appreciate it. Good advice. We have been using some things but can probably strengthen the nationwide/mild summer version thing up so it's more clear. [We really are hearing from many sources that this milder summer version of H1N1 is being experienced in much of the country] Good to know it helped you. We have such a great team here. The transportation team is on their light days between changeovers but volunteered to come in and manage the individual email responses and phone calls for our Health Service Director. My team is in prepping for the next communications and from Joe White down we are all monitoring the health and response of the Kamps as they are on the front lines of the cleaning, etc. I've been very impressed by the leadership's quick and aggressive decisions and the transparency of information to our parents was never in question. Thanks again for the encouragement.


Many others of you have written encouraging emails praising our response and telling us you are praying for a healthy summer, they are all read with respect and a great deal of humbleness and appreciation.

We had a brief time of prayer this morning before we began our work for the day, comforted that that God is with us. Things are going so well. Kampers are having a blast.

This morning the team took a moment to make sure that we had everyone in the absolute right spots to make it a great day of serving and being efficient. Being diligent and watchful as if all these Kampers were our own kids (and some of them have been!)

All photos from yesterday's Kamp activity should be posted sometime around noon (for those Kampers here right now), but I know some of them are up already. There will be literally thousands of visitors to the website today to view the photos.

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Keeping You Current

Written by Kanakuk on June 27, 2009 in all .

Good Morning! A team of us are assembling at Kanakuk this morning including Doug Goodwin, Chief Operating Officer for Kanakuk Ministries, to assure that you have the most current and correct information.

As I drove in, wild turkey and K-1 staff were out for their morning runs. I've opened my window so I can here the Leadership staff wake the Kampers in the fun way they do. And before I leave today the sound of kids chanting and the K-Kountry and K-1 ziplines will no doubt make it through the window as well.

If you are wondering about our pre-Kamp screening process we will be sending an email out to Kampers prior to the start of their term so that you can have the details and download a copy of the Health Check Questionnaire.

More soon.
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