WorkCamp
The Catholic Diocese of Arlington WorkCamp is a week-long experience providing the teens of our diocese an intense conversion experience through service, community, and prayer. Through the WorkCamp program, we serve our fellow Virginians by making their homes warmer, safer, and drier.
This service opportunity combines prayer, great speakers, daily Mass, confession, hard work, and tons of fun, making it an integrated experience of true Christian community and one of the most transformational opportunities for teens in our diocese each year!
WorkCamp 2025 is scheduled for June 21-27, 2025 in Shenandoah County, VA.
- June 21 – June 27, 2025 — All high school aged teens in the parish are welcome.
- $625 attendance fee per teen (includes all diocesan registration fees: teen + adult leaders)
Questions about registration or WorkCamp in general should be sent to: Michael Dunne, workcamp@sainttheresaparish.com.
(Links to videos and media coverage of WorkCamp 2024 may be found here)
Additional information on WorkCamp can be found on the Diocese of Arlington’s web site:
https://www.arlingtondiocese.org/workcamp/
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Teen Formation Meeting Schedule
The monthly WorkCamp meetings will be held on the following dates:
- Thursday, January 16th at 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Saint Louis Martin Room
Thursday, February 13th at 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Saint Louis Martin Room
Thursday, March 13th at 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Saint Louis Martin Room
Thursday, April 10th at 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Saint Louis Martin Room
Thursday, May 8th at 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Saint Louis Martin Room
Thursday, June 12th at 7:00 – 8:30 pm – Saint Louis Martin Room
All meetings start promptly at 7pm and are held in the St. Louis Martin conference room (in the parish office building).
Attendance at the monthly meetings is REQUIRED for teens wishing to attend WorkCamp with our parish group. Teens are also strongly encouraged to regularly attend URS Youth Ministry meetings on Sunday Nights from 6pm to 8pm. The monthly schedule of those meetings can be found in the Parish Bulletin section of the Parish website: https://sainttheresaparish.com/bulletin/
To RSVP for the meetings, please send an email to Michael Dunne – workcamp@sainttheresaparish.com
WorkCamp Volunteer Opportunities
WorkCamp cannot exist without our adult volunteers … literally! For every 5 teens we have attending WorkCamp we need one Adult Leader and one WorkCamp Contractor … or we can’t bring the teens to WorkCamp!
The main categories of adult volunteers and a brief description of their duties at WorkCamp are as follows:
- Adult Crew Leaders — these adults are assigned and responsible for a “crew” of 5-6 teens for the entire week of WorkCamp. The ACLs are responsible for driving the teens to and from the job site each day and oversees their general welfare and team spirit for the week. ACLs stay with our parish group at WorkCamp for the entire week. ACLs must pass background checks, be approved for driving teens with the diocese, and VIRTUS certified.
- Adult Crew Leaders must be registered by March 27, 2025
- All Adult Crew Leaders must attend one of the Crew Leader training meetings in March 2025.
- Adult Crew Leader Training: Thursday, March 6, 6:30–9:30 p.m. at St. John Neumann.
- Adult Crew Leader Training: Saturday, March 22, 1:30–4:30 p.m. at St. William of York.
- Adult Crew Leader Training: Thursday, March 27, 6:30–9:30 p.m. at St. Mark, Vienna.
- All Adult Crew Leaders must attend one of the Crew Leader training meetings in March 2025.
- WorkCamp Contractors — are essentially project leaders and on-site managers for the actual job sites during the week of WorkCamp. They work with the Adult Crew Leader on the job site to ensure the teens are safe and working well. The Contractor has primary responsibility for the job site and ensuring the project is completed as planned. Contractors must be background checked and DO NOT have to be licensed contractors.
- Contractors must be registered by May 19,2025.
- Security Personnel — these volunteers travel to the WorkCamp Homebase (the school where we live for the week of WorkCamp) for just one day and ensure everything runs smoothly as the teens and their crews return to Homebase after a day of working on their job sites.
- The deadline for registering for a security position is April 28, 2025.
If you or someone you know is interested in volunteering for one of these positions for WorkCamp 2025, please contact Michael Dunne – workcamp@sainttheresaparish.com.
Registration for WorkCamp 2025 ends on Friday, February 14th!
NOTE: Registration for teens MUST be completed by their parent or guardian. A parent/guardian will initially log in to their existing portal account or create an account in order to display their family WorkCamp registration portal. Once they have an account set up, they may then register their child (or multiple children) and other family members (themselves or other adults) who plan to attend WorkCamp.
Upon registering a youth participant, the parent/guardian will be taken directly to a DocuSign site to electronically sign the registration forms. When adding other adults to the registration portal and registering them, an email will be sent directly to that adult with a link directing them to electronically sign their forms. It is not necessary to submit hard-copy forms to the WorkCamp office.
Every person who is registering for WorkCamp must be a part of a family account. Therefore, even contractors or young adults who register for WorkCamp will begin by creating their own family account or be registered with an existing family portal, i.e., a portal created by a spouse, parents, etc. However, individuals under the age of 22 who create a family account may not add additional family members to their portal.
The cost to attend WorkCamp 2025 is $625 per teen — this includes all diocesan and parish registration costs.
Teen registration for WorkCamp 2025 will close on Feb. 14, 2025 and all fees must be included by that point as well. This is a firm date – there will be NO late registrations accepted in our parish’s WorkCamp program.
