We instituted a CIT program over 14 years ago, that has resulted in a very small staff turnover and a really very dedicated group of people to our camp. To share some of our experiences - It was difficult to begin, but perhaps by starting with an overall goal and some objectives, may help. For example our goal was to develop the potential of our CITS to enable them to be leaders at camp and within their own communities. With that we developed a twelve-step program of two weeks, first starting on hard skills, then soft skills. We have multiple objectives from which we based experiential activities, and lessons about leadership and working at camp. We really use the program as a springboard to helping them develop into mature staff, so the program while it is fun, is also serious and starts to treat them as professionals with guidance. They don't work very much with the children until the second week, where they are totally supervised, as the first week focuses on again hard skills, but all of those critical things that CITs need to know before working with kids - for example, risk management, age characteristics of different campers, behavioral issues, discipline and camper management and so on. Hopefully this will give you some idea. If you need further info. please feel free to e-mail me. Good Luck!