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 resident assistants live in each dorm. There are three girls’ dorms and one boys’ dorm. Supervised by their resident assistants, 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. The daily schedule contains a letter-writing/quiet time supervised by the resident assistants from 12:15 to 12:50 p.m. Resident assistants will be available to assist as necessary.

Students may use campus pay phones to call home Saturdays and Sundays. Calls must be completed by 9 p.m. Students are not permitted to call home at any time from check-in on Sunday through Friday evenings. Parents are requested to refrain from calling their children during this period as the children will not be permitted to talk on the telephone.

Supervision
Students are supervised in the dormitories by resident assistants. Most resident assistants are college students or recent graduates with a major or strong interest in the arts. Resident assistants are rigorously screened and interviewed before being hired. The Summer Program receives approximately ten applications for every open position. Resident assistants are selected by the Director of the Summer Program and the Dean of Students 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 resident assistants prior to the beginning of the Summer Program. Topics covered during orientation include first aid, responsible counseling, conflict mediation, and campus safety.

In the Children’s Center students are supervised closely. They are escorted by resident assistants when walking across the campus. All resident students eat meals with their resident assistants and participate in evening activities. Resident assistants are the primary link between students and the Summer Program. Students can feel free to approach their resident assistants with questions, concerns, problems or just plain homesickness. Every effort is made to provide as much individual student-resident assistant contact as possible.