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Volunteering Is the Key to Leadership
Because if you can’t give generously, you can’t lead
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The dynamics of challenge and support are what lead to real growth.
How Volunteering Helps You
If you’re overwhelmed, exhausted, or feeling behind in school or in the pace of your life, you are not trapped. You need a change of perspective. Perspective changes your priorities. And volunteering gives you that perspective. This video explains the shift.
“The moments you give become the memories you keep.”
Why The Same Approach Is Relevant for Volunteering
Caregivers and Professionals
If you’re a parent, caregiver, or professional, you’ve seen this shift before. When young people step into real responsibility, their confidence changes. Their priorities change. Their sense of self changes. Volunteering is one of the safest places for that growth to happen.
Camp Justice is work — real work — but not the kind that drains you. It’s the kind that puts everything else into perspective. The kind that lightens the burdens you walked in with. The kind that has deep emotional rewards and changes you. Recalibrates your values. The kind that becomes one of the memories you carry for the rest of your life.
“Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day.”
— William Arthur Ward
Who Qualifies to Become a
Camp Justice Volunteer
Camp Justice welcomes volunteers who are ready to learn, serve, and contribute to a safer community. You qualify if you meet the following:
Youth Volunteers (Ages 14–17)
• Able to complete the Camp Justice study
guide and orientation
• Able to commit to the full summer program
• Willing to follow trauma‑aware, dignity‑first
communication practices
• Do not pose a safety risk to themselves or
others
• Ready to represent Camp Justice with integrity and reliability
Adult Volunteers (18+)
• Able to complete the Camp Justice study guide and orientation
• Able to commit to the full summer program
• Willing to follow trauma‑aware, dignity‑first communication practices
• Able to pass a standard background check
• Ready to represent Camp Justice with integrity and reliability
Youth who are not yet ready for leadership are welcomed as campers, where they receive support, structure, and mentorship.
What You Will Learn
• Trauma‑aware communication practices
• Justice literacy and prevention frameworks
• Leadership development and community stewardship
What’s Expected of You
• Dedicate 2 hours per week to self‑paced study
• Attend one online orientation session
• Complete the required study guide
• Pass the short knowledge check
• Serve one full season as a summer camp counselor
What You Will Receive
• Internationally recognized certificate of completion — awarded after summer camp
• Student of Diplomacy ID — issued upon successful completion of camp
• Access to your first USIDHR course once you are an active, participating Camp Justice volunteer
Your first course and your first-year Student ID are fully funded by Camp Justice once you complete your summer service. Additional courses are optional and self-funded.
Volunteering for Camp Justice is not a place for weakness. It is a place for humility.
It is not a place for pride.
It is a place for vulnerability.
We are not asking for charity.
We are inviting you into wholehearted service
and the kind of internal growth that only happens when you allow yourself to change.
“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him, that of plants
and animals as that of his fellow men, and when he devotes himself helpfully
to all life that is in need of help.”
— Albert Schweitzer
And when you serve from this place — with humility, vulnerability, and reverence — something remarkable happens: the world begins to follow you.
And if you are followed, you are a leader. A worthy, experience‑forged role model.
And this is where the deeper promise of Camp Justice reveals itself: service becomes the foundation for a future you may never have imagined — a future in global leadership, human rights, and ethical influence.
Your time, your effort, and your willingness to grow are met with a mandatory training required for Camp Justice — a training that results in an international certification and a Student of Diplomacy ID, paid in full.
If you have ever considered adding an upgrade to your résumé — something that lifts you above the fold in any competition for the rest of your career — this is your moment to do so.
You bring your time and your heart.
We bring the training that opens doors.
Mayasonette Lambkiss
The time you give here becomes part of a child’s story.
The fun you have here will matter to them more than you know.