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Camp Organizational
Improvement Web-Based Course Available
Soon!
If you believe your program offers a quality experience for your participants
but also think doing even better is ideal, this Web-based course, Designing Quality
Youth Programs available through ACA’s E-Institute, is for you. This course
will take you through an eight-step process focused on a rewarding journey of
organizational improvement that recognizes each setting is different, every program
is unique, and each improvement requires a targeted set of strategies. The process
is designed to be individualized so it fits your mission and philosophy, reflects
input from your young people and staff, and implements strategies that make sense
for your program. These change strategies become a direct link to your organizational
policies, structures, and activities and enable you to have a holistic approach
to program improvement.
This course can be supplemented with the
companion book, Designing
Quality Youth Programs. Regardless
of whether you choose to use the book or
just want to stay with the online course,
get ready to venture out of your comfort
zone, get into a “stretch” position,
and learn how to take a critical look at
your program’s potential!
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Mark Roark Received the
First Marge Scanlin Outstanding Student
Research Award
 The
Marge Scanlin Award for Outstanding Student
Research was established as an endowment
upon Marge’s retirement in 2006 to
recognize her many years of commitment
to the American Camp Association and camp
research. At least one award will be given
each year that includes a scholarship to
attend the ACA annual conference. Criteria
have been set by ACA’s Committee
for the Advancement of Research and Evaluation
(CARE) to judge outstanding research. The
recipient of the 2008 first annual award
was Mark F. Roark from the University of
Utah. Mark presented his research, entitled “The
More Campers Attend Camp, the More They
Increase Their Competence, Friendship Skills,
and Independence” as
a part of the Research Symposium during
the national conference. The purpose of
his research presentation, which was a
part of his Ph.D. dissertation, was to
examine the relationship between the autonomy-supportive
behaviors of camp personnel and the acquisition
of developmental outcomes among youth campers.
Roark’s experiences with camp include
not only research projects, but he has
also been a counselor, wilderness trip
leader, challenge course director, resident
camp director, day camp director, and camp
co-creator.
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