IKUS Life Enrichment Services is an organization that serves individuals with disabilities from the age of 5-80+! Their goal is to help those with disabilities experience life to its fullest, allow them to gain some independence and offer support to their clients’ families and caregivers while assuring that their clients are taking part of adventures and helping them unlock their natural abilities.
We support people with disabilities. In the state of Michigan, a lot of the support systems for people with disabilities end at around age 26 and that’s where we pick things up.
One of the programs they provide is a Traditional Summer Camp known as Indiana Trails Camp and they are looking for individuals to join their team! IKUS is looking for Health Officers and Camp Counselors. HR Manager Erin Peraino stopped by to chat with Pre-Health Advisor Carmen Gamlin to highlight the awesome things they have going on at Indiana Trails Camp and to recruit Titans for a paid clinical summer camp positions! This is an opportunity to gain awesome experience in health care, and patient care as well as an opportunity for personal growth and enrichment.
So we’re actively searching for Health Officers. It offers a great opportunity for anybody going into the health field to really get exposure to a ton of different ailments or different diseases and different things they may not see and at the same time in an environment where you’re going to get into a water balloon fight in any moment! So it’s a really fun environment and also a huge experience for somebody.
For the Health Officer position we have at our summer camp, is a team of people that work with our camp nurse as apart of a health team…The health team does not need any specific experience but they will be exposed to a variety of different things.
The duration of Summer Camp is 9 weeks; from May 31-August 12. All sessions for summer camp begins Sunday afternoon and end Friday morning. Campers go home for weekends and Summer camp employees have the weekends off. Additional benefits of working at IKUS for the Summer is housing and meals are provided and this is a paid position with pay being $325/week! Titans if you would like to apply to be apart of the Summer Camp Staff at IKUS, please click the link here to apply.
We’re a residential camp, but were one of the only camps in the state of Michigan that has no weekends. So if you were to take a position as either a health officer or camp counselor, we’re hiring both. You would start on Sundays. Its a whole new group of people, at around 3:00pm and you’re done on Fridays before noon. So you have your entire weekend to do what you choose.
IKUS Life Enrichment will like to share testimony of a former Camp Counselor of her experience working at Indiana Trails Camp. View video here!