The Englishton Park Experience : Educator Preparation Program : Hanover College

The Englishton Park Experience

Established by Hanover College Professor of Psychology Harve Rawson, Ph.D. in 1969, Englishton Park offers three Summer Camp sessions, with each session lasting ten days. Boys who are between the ages of 7 and 12 and girls who are between the ages of 8 and 12 are eligible to participate. After a child's application has been approved, our staff reviews the child's records and creates an individualized goal-based plan to address the child's behavioral and academic needs.

When a child arrives at camp for their ten-day stay, they are assigned to a small group consisting of approximately nine children. Each group of children is supervised by a team of three trained camp counselors (providing a 3:1 camper to counselor ratio). Two program co-directors and a resident director supervise the Summer Camp's operation, and a tutoring supervisor oversees educational instruction. Hanover College students and recent graduates have always been a part of the Englishton Park experience

So - are you ready to discuss meaningful summer employment only 14 miles from the Hanover College campus? If you answered yes, then it's time to take a serious look at employment at the Englishton Park Summer Camp located in Lexington, Indiana. Over the last 55 consecutive summers, hundreds of psychology, education, sociology majors - and even music majors - have spent their summers using therapeutic techniques to bring about changes in 8 to 12-year-olds who could use a little help to have more success at home or at school. Employment dates are June 6 to July 25, 2024. Salary is $5,000. with room and board provided. There is no better summer experience suited to future educators!

To check it out online, visit https://www.englishtonpark.com/

To learn more about the mission and history of Englishton Park For more information about open summer positions, please contact camp directors, Thomas and Lisa Barnett, via email at thomaslisabarnett@etczone.com.

Can you spot the Hanover College grads in this photo?

Captain English's Legacy: The Englishton Park Children's Program by Harve E. Rawson, Ph.D

(available at https://www.amazon.com/)

"Captain English's Legacy" is about a wealthy and concerned Indiana business leader of the early 1900s who leaves the grounds of his summer home in Southeast Indiana as a place to work with indigent children having problems as his final heritage. Years later, on these very grounds, a program working with troubled elementary school-aged youth for over four decades quietly portrays the myriad of problems young children sometimes have to face in their lives, the resilience such children often demonstrate, and the caring but steady methods that work well with the majority of these young children no matter what the problem. The Englishton Park Summer Program for Children, as it is now called, is a short-term intensive residential treatment center for children aged 6-12 suffering various behavioral maladies - a program now into its fourth decade. Often nicknamed "Camp Englishton", the treatment program is disguised as a summer camp complete with Indian tribes, cook-outs and campfires. But underneath is a solid therapeutic treatment program designed around the specific needs of each child - a program that emphasizes predictability and stability to support each child. "Captain English's Legacy" is also a story of the devoted hard-working young adults who give themselves totally to the needs of these children, often sacrificing their own ego in the process, thereby changing them forever in small degrees. It is mainly a story of success: a rare example of a federally-funded one-year demonstration project that is going even better four decades later under private funding; a staff who make sure every child receives everything they have to offer the children they are working with; and a vivid portrayal of the social ills that produce these wounded children. The story is sometimes sad, sometimes humorous, sometimes pitiful, sometimes courageous - but it is always uplifting and hopeful.