Being vaccinated because they touched a *captured* bat? Asinine. For being in the same building as bats? Asinine.
Prophylactic vaccination is recommended if one handles a *dying* (sick) bat, or has physical contact with an *unprovoked* bat.
I don't have a lot of experience with bats. But it seems to me that it would be hard to catch one. An easy to catch bat that isn't struggling, biting, etc. may be more likely to be sick.
We have bats around here and last summer one was flying over my kids' heads' while they swam in our pool, in the middle of the day. It landed on a low leaf and we watched it awhile. A couple of days later, it turned up dead in the pool skimmer. I have learned since then that such unusual behavior on the part of a bat likely indicates sickness.
By the time any one of those girls exhibits symptoms of rabies, it will be too late. Anyone with symptomatic rabies will die.
If the counsellor was able to catch the bat, it was almost certainly sick.