About Us
Our Staff
Camp Good Times has a knowledgeable and well-versed staff, many of who return to work at the camp year after year. Approximately 75 percent of our staff, including therapists, autism professionals, education majors, certified general and special education teachers and paraprofessionals have been with Camp Good Times for more than two years. Our counselors have a vested interest in the children they work with and receive annual training in learning strategies and techniques, characteristics of autism, behavior-management and nonviolent crisis prevention intervention through the Crisis Prevention Institute.
Our camp director, Beth R. Weiner, has been with Camp Good Times for nine years. Prior to becoming director in 2005, Beth was a counselor for the camp. As Camp Director, Beth helps to oversee many aspects of camp operations, including, but not limited to, budgets, programming, staff orientation and training, fund raising, grant writing, human resources and community outreach.
Beth has a bachelor degree from Widener University. Along with being director of the camp, she is also a media assistant, para-educator and student tutor in the Charleston County School district. She teaches religious school at her synagogue and is a mother of two sons, Jacob and Reuben who have been attending Camp Good Times since they were three years old. Jacob has a diagnosis of autism.
Ellen McBrinn, assistant camp director, is a special education teacher at Oakbrook Elementary School in Dorchester County. She also provides Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services for children with autism. Ellen has a masters degree in education and has been involved with Camp Good Times for nine years.
Each year, Camp Good Times hires more than 30 additional staff members including autism professionals, certified special education teachers, general education teachers and trained classroom para-educators. In addition to paid camp staff members, Campers may bring individual therapists to help support their socialization and behavior management procedures during camp pending prior approval during the application process by our camp admissions team.
