PARTICIPANT GUIDELINES YOUTH/CHAPERONE:
Covenant: As a a community, we all agree to act in ways that are best for the ourselves, one another, and the whole. Coming to our overnight means you support our UU values and covenant of love, respect, inherent worth, justice, and anti-oppression.
Rules: Whereas the Covenant is about how we are in relationship to our values, our rules are community agreement we make before entering youth space, for health and safety reasons:
● No substance use, including smoking, vaping, alcohol, energy drinks, drugs illegal to youth, or drug paraphernalia. This includes adults, even if something’s legal for them.
● No sexual behavior, intimate behavior, or public nudity.
This includes intercourse and outercourse, and any touch/activity meant to arouse.
● No violence or threats of violence, no weapons or explosives
● One body, one sleeping bag, one mattress.
You may be in cuddle puddles in public hangout areas only.
● Keep medication in original prescription packaging and give it to registrar on arrival.
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Everyone is expected to attend programming. If you need to step away briefly for self-care, please let an adult know.
● Stay on site and within boundaries. Certain areas or facilities will be off limits.
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All excursions off-site must
include a minimum of three, multigenerational participants. No youth or
adults are to ever be alone in a closed space with another youth
participant.