Housing
There are four Children’s Center dormitories, three girls dorms with four student rooms, one resident assitant room and shared bathrooms. Students are housed by sex and age. Girls are housed four or five to a room. The boys’ dorm is divided into two large rooms each with twelve beds. Two or three counselors live in each dorm. There are three girls’ dorms and one boys’ dorm. Supervised by their counselors, students are responsible for cleaning their own rooms and the common bathrooms. Cleaning supplies and vacuum cleaners are supplied by the school. All resident students pay a $50 room deposit at check-in. The deposit is fully refundable upon determination at checkout time that no damage to the room has occurred. Refunds will be made by mail within 30 days of a student’s departure from Idyllwild Arts. The Summer Program reserves the right to bill a student for any amount in excess of the $50 deposit if serious damage to the room has occurred.

Policy On Phoning/Contacting Home
Children’s Center and Junior Artist students are encouraged to contact their families via letter while they are in residence at the Summer Program.

Students may call home Saturdays and Sundays. Calls must be completed by 9 p.m.

Supervision
Students are supervised in the dormitories by counselors. Most counselors are college students or recent graduates with a major or strong interest in the arts. Counselors are rigorously screened and interviewed before being hired. The Summer Program receives approximately ten applications for every open position. Counselors are selected based on their experience and interest in working with young people, their character references and their interpersonal communication skills.

The Dean of Students organizes a comprehensive 11-day training and orientation session for all counselors prior to the beginning of the Summer Program. Topics covered during orientation include first aid, responsible counseling, conflict mediation, and
campus safety.

Counselors are the primary link between students and the Summer Program. Students can feel free to approach their counselors with questions, concerns, problems or just plain homesickness. Every effort is made to provide as much individual student-counselor contact as possible.