Workdays: Monday - Thursday
Hours: 8:30am - 5:00pm
Workdays: Friday
Hours: 10:30am - 6:30pm
Terms available:
- Term 1: June 30th - July 11th
- Term 2: July 14th - July 25th
- Term 3: July 28th to August 8th
- Term 4: August 11th - August 22nd
- Term 5: August 25th - August 29th (ONE WEEK ONLY)
12+ GTA locations to choose from: Mississauga (Erindale) | Bathurst & Lawrence | Little Italy (College & Bathurst) | East York/Danforth | High Park | Markham | Midtown | North York (Yonge St) | Richmond Hill | Thornhill
More locations COMING SOON.
Discover our reimagined Counsellor in Training and Chef in Training programs for teens aged 14–17. Build skills, gain experience, and unlock opportunities for future success!
Work alongside Camp Counsellors to learn about and experience what it is like to work with children.
Including learning and practising skills relating to:
- Working with a variety of ages
- Working with kids with disabilities
- Planning and implementing activities with the support of experienced staff
- Teaching and mentoring children
- Conflict resolution & problem solving
- Working with large and small groups
- Working directly with campers in various aspects of camp programming
- Supporting campers during recipe execution, crafts, activities and games
- Helping campers with Pop-Up Restaurant preparation and role rehearsals
- Overseeing and supporting servers and hosts during the Pop-Up restaurant
- Experience an application and interview process and gain valuable entry level job readiness skills.
- And More!
Skills Showcase: ACTIVITY TAKEOVER – Counsellors in training work with the counsellors to decide on a craft or activity they are interested in facilitating. Throughout the week they discuss, practice and plan their activity. On Thursday they get to implement it!
Work alongside Chefs to learn about and experience working in a culinary setting.
- Work with the sous chef to prepare and execute staff lunch and occasionally, ad on’s for camper lunches.
- Work in the back kitchen with the sous chef and, learn about the culinary industry. Including learning and practicing skills relating to:
Skills Showcase: RECIPE DEMONSTRATION – Chefs in training work with the sous chef to learn how to, plan, and co-teach a recipe demonstration. Throughout the week they will collaborate with the sous chef to prepare to teach campers a recipe on Thursday!
Staff lunch preparation
Similar to our traditional camp structure, the mornings will be spent learning to cook from our engaging and passionate chef instructors. Our CITs will be responsible for executing the morning recipes in the pursuit of preparing staff lunch. This is a fun task that will help them build their cooking skills and recipe repertoire, while also giving them a sense of responsiblitiy as they will be needed to feed the team.
Support counsellor
After lunch, the campers will proceed to engage in outdoor recess. Recess is a great opportunity for CITs to exercise their creativity as they work with the counsellor to plan and facilitate a wide variety of activities from arts and crafts to sports. It is here that our CITs will practice their leadership and classroom management skills as they learn to be a mentor and work with children of all ages.
Conduct mise en place preparation
Afternoons are where our CITs go into “chef mode” as they support the back of house duties of our program, mainly mise en place preparation (i.e. cutting, measuring and portioning ingredients for the next day’s recipes).
Support Kitchen assistant as needed
Under the direction and guidance of our chefs and kitchen assistants, our CITs will also be taught about safe food handling practices, how to receive and manage inventory, how to wash and dry dishes efficiently, how to communicate effectively and professionally, and how to organize themselves accordingly to ensure they complete their prep lists for the day.
- CITs are required to enroll in at least one week-long session but are encouraged to commit to two consecutive weeks or an entire term to maximize their impact and experience
- Rooks to Cooks will confirm receipt of your application within 2 business days and we will schedule a phone interview.
- The CIT Coordinator will acknowledge your acceptance into the CIT Program via email.
- Upon acceptance, you will be enrolled in our CIT Program and you will register for preferred session/s on our website. Cost to participate is $375.00/week or $700.00/term
- As your summer camp sessions approaches, we will provide you with more detailed instructions and training.
