Community Care

Mental Health

We are thrilled to have received the Foundation for Jewish Camp’s Yedid Nefesh Grant, allowing us to have a mental health professional with us full-time during Camp. Under the direction of Elana Yeffet, Community Care & Inclusion Manager, with our mental health professional, Jaime Glazerman, LPC, and our team of Yoetzim (Senior Advisors/Parent Liaisons), we provide layers of support to our Ramah Darom chanichim (campers) and tzevet (staff).

About Makom Shalom

Camp Ramah Darom’s Makom Shalom is a quiet, comfortable, relaxing indoor space where campers and staff can take a break and receive extra support from Jaime.

About Jaime Glazerman

Jaime Glazerman, LPC, (she/her) is an Education Consultant at the Blue Dove Foundation, in addition to the Mental Health Support Staff at camp over the summer. During the year, she is honored to connect the organization’s powerful resources with the communities that need them. Prior to working with Blue Dove, Jaime spent her time learning about and conducting outreach, community-building, and professional education, accumulating more than a decade of experience counseling children, adults, families, couples and groups. She provided play therapy, group education, and family-based treatment for pediatric eating disorders. She is particularly passionate about working with pre-teens, teens, young adults and their families and has specialized training and experience working with families affected by eating disorders. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) with a Masters Degree in Community Counseling from Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. Jaime enjoys cooking, crafting, and spending time with her husband and two children. She calls Johns Creek home.

About Yoetzim

Yoetzim are Camp Ramah Darom’s senior advisors, parent liaisons and support campers and staff during the summer. Read more.

About Yedid Nefesh

As part of the third cohort of Foundation for Jewish Camp’s (FJC’s) Yedid Nefesh program, Camp Ramah Darom will receive funding over the course of four years. These funds will be used to hire a qualified mental health professional, provide enhanced counselor training, establish proactive wellness activity areas, and develop tools to destigmatize mental health in their broader community. FJC’s Yedid Nefesh initiative is generously funded by The Marcus Foundation.

“By investing in embedded and sustainable MESSH support systems, Camp Ramah Darom is creating a healthy space for campers and young staff to engage in self-discovery, strengthen their sense of resiliency, and flex interpersonal skills – all while benefiting from the sense of belonging and Jewish community that they are known for,” says Jill Goldstein Smith, senior program manager and Yedid Nefesh project lead at FJC.

Food at Camp Ramah Darom is made from scratch by our skilled culinary team and served with love! Campers gobble up our famous homemade biscuits, fried chicken, brisket and cobblers. Campers and staff love our homemade pizza for Friday lunch, Wednesday BBQs and Taco nights.

In addition to the three nutritious kosher meals and two snacks a day, fresh fruit is always available in our Chadar Ochel (Dining Hall). Camp provides additional scheduled snacks to all campers at our canteen. For the safety of our community members with allergies, during the summer sessions, Camp Ramah Darom’s dining room is completely peanut and tree-nut-free. Our canteen will not offer items with nuts as a listed ingredient; however, some labels for chocolates say “may contain nuts or may have been processed in a facility with nuts.”

Ramah Darom also accommodates campers and staff with various food allergies and sensitivities. There are always dairy-free, gluten-free, vegetarian and vegan-friendly options served in a special section of the Chadar Ochel. During summer camp sessions, our facility is peanut and tree-nut-free. Parents/Guardians can indicate their camper’s dietary habits and needs in the Dietary and Nutritional Health portion of the Detailed Camper Profile-section 3 on their family dashboard.

Meals at Camp are filled with healthy and hearty dishes and enough variety to satisfy most picky eaters. There is also always an option for plain pasta, sun butter and jelly sandwiches and salad bar.

Each morning at Camp, campers start the day with a hearty breakfast. In addition to daily selections like homemade waffles, pancakes, biscuits or cinnamon buns, eggs, bagels and cream cheese, soysage, yogurt and fruit, there is always a cereal bar with whole milk, 2% and low-fat and soymilk and OJ, apple juice is available.

After morning activities, campers refuel on Camp lunch favorites like a potato bar with all the kosher fixings, grilled cheese and tomato soup, mac and cheese with veggies, falafel, hummus and pita with Israeli cucumber salad, and pizza every Friday on the covered basketball court. There is also a salad bar with fresh greens, a variety of slices and dices vegetables and tuna or pasta salad at every lunch.

Camp dinners range from homemade chicken nuggets and fries to Asian stir fries to wing night, taco night, Wednesday night cook-outs with hamburgers, hot dogs, veggie burgers and watermelon, to our traditional Friday night Shabbat dinner. There is also a salad bar with a variety of fresh raw vegetables and crunchy toppings, and dinners are followed by desserts like blueberry crumble, chocolate brownies, popsicles or s’more by the campfire. 

Got a picky eater? Don’t worry. There is always plain pasta, sun butter and bread available.

Please reach out to camp@ramahdarom.org with any additional questions.

As Kesher translates to the word “link”, the goal of this program is to connect new and returning Ramah Darom families before the start of Kayitz (Summer). Please complete this form and we’ll start connecting.

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