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ACA Bookstore — Featured Products and Resources
Stock up now on resources for staff training,
forms and tools for parent-packets and more!
The forms
you need are available in packages
of 100 and include:
- Camper Health History
- Camp Health Record Card
- Camper Health-Care Recommendations
by Licensed Medical Personnel
- Camp Staff Application
- Voluntary Disclosure Statement
- Accident Incident Report Form
For every camp director's bookshelf, we
recommend:
 Crisis
Communications Weathering the Storm A
Handbook for Camps and Other Youth Programs,
 Marla
Coleman, Jessica Coleman, $39.95
The key to managing a crisis is communication — in
prevention, in response, and in recovery.
A well-conceived crisis-response communications
plan will ensure that everyone has the
most up-to-date information to support
the varied needs of campers, staff, families,
and the larger community. Within Crisis
Communications Weathering the Storm,
you will find resources to create your
own customized crisis-response communications
plan, as well as suggestions and templates
for a complete crisis plan.
Our most effective Staff Training tools:
 Who
Will Care When I'm Not There,
Second Edition, DVD, Peg Smith,
ACA, $19.95
Use this emotionally charged video to impress
upon your new staff the level of responsibility
each member needs to feel. There is no
greater responsibility a camp staff member
could have than to take someone else's
child by the hand and lead them safely
through the camp experience. Part 1 offers
a number of practices that can be undertaken
by camp staff to enhance the safety of
those for whom they are most responsible — the
campers. Part 2 details how the DVD can
be used to increase the awareness of camp
staff to relevant risk-management issues
at camp.
 Camp
Is For the Camper, A Counselor's Guide
to Youth Development,
Connie Coutellier, ACA, $9.95
This time-tested book is designed to help
assist camp counselors in working more
effectively with their campers, covering
many important topics for new and returning
counselors. Learn skills and strategies
to help you deal with everything from working
with individual campers and working with
groups to measuring your success. Consider
the online course option and help your
staff (and volunteers) start their training
prior to arriving at camp.
The Must Have for Parents and Campers:
 The
Secrets of Summer Camp Success,
DVD, Chris Thurber, ACA, $9.95
Everything new campers need to know before
they go. Watch this one together, as a
family. This DVD helps to make camp more
fun than you ever thought possible! CD:
Essential guidance for parents to support
their child at camp. Advice to parents
by parents. Moms and dads, listen to this
one in the car, after opening day drop-off.
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2009 ACA National Conference — A
Powerful Experience for This Year's
Participants
This year's national conference
was a powerful and meaningful experience
for attendees, delegates, volunteers, exhibitors,
sponsors, and our special guests, including
our keynote presenters. Here's
what attendees are saying . . . .
“Pat Williams was amazing!”
“Ned Hallowell did a great job sharing his own experiences and connecting
with us”
“The ones who are best are those who can link their area of expertise
with the camp experience! That made Dr. Hallowell and Linda Perlstein great!”
“Thanks for bringing us Joe Hubbard. What an awesome individual!”
“This year's breakouts were awesome – there were multiple
sessions I wanted to attend in every time slot.”
We were thrilled to have an absolutely
packed exhibit hall with 180 companies
and organizations offering the latest resources
and time-tested products and services essential
for camp. You can check
out our exhibitors and
visit helpful links to exhibitor's
specific Web sites.
Special Thanks to Our Conference Sponsors!
The National Conference Team would like
to offer special thanks to our generous
sponsors who helped pave the way to providing
a quality educational event through financial
support.
National Conference
Service Project Enjoys Success, Thanks
to YOU!
In its second year, Operation Camp T-Shirt
happily collected nearly 2,000 camp shirts
to benefit the children in the Orlando area,
who are served through The Chrysalis Foundation
for Children, Inc., and Arnold Palmer Medical
Center/The Howard Phillips Center for Children & Families
(HPC). We also received generous donations
of adult T-shirts, which made their way to
the Emergency Department and Level One Trauma
Center, the main community hospital — Orlando
Regional Medical Center. Special thanks to
the camps and exhibitors who contributed
so generously and helped us share the power
of the camp with the local community.
Contributors to Success
How does an event like this come together? We
know the answer! Countless hours,
dedication, ingenuity, creativity, and
problem solving by a group of dedicated
volunteers, before, during and yes, even
after the event, makes this conference
what it is. More than 100 volunteers
contributed to the success we experienced
in Orlando.
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Looking Forward to the 2010 ACA National
Conference
February 16-19
Denver Hyatt at Colorado Convention Center
Plans are well underway for our 2010 national
conference. We're excited to
combine the 2010 meeting with the 100th
Anniversary celebration of ACA. Early
breaking news . . . two sponsors have signed
on to offer support. Please welcome
Markel
Insurance Company and You
CAN do The Rubik's Cube. Mark
your calendars now.
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ACA Regional Conferences — Plan
to Attend
Excellent regional offerings provide high
quality education, access to exhibitors,
and effective social networking. Plan
to attend one or more, and consider bringing
multiple staff. Many regional conferences
offer group incentives and great values
for registration, hotel accommodations,
and networking events. Check
out all the conferences offered.
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 Start Your Staff Training NOW!
Improve your staff hiring and training
with online courses from ACA:
Criminal
Background Checks — Dispelling
the Myths and Confronting the Realities
Staff and volunteer screening and hiring
practices should include thorough criminal
background checks. However, there
is much confusion about the kinds of background
checks (criminal and non-criminal) that
are available to youth-serving organizations. This
course dispels the myths and makes sense
of the realities of what is available to
organizations that select staff and volunteers
to serve children, youth, and vulnerable
adults.
Camp Is for the Camper
ACA's #1 online course! Give
staff a jumpstart in considering their
roles and responsibilities before arriving
at camp. The program's four interactive
modules address counselor responsibilities
as role models, stress reduction while
working at camp, and demographics of today's
campers and behavior management techniques.
The program content draws from the popular
book, Camp Is for the Camper (link to specific
book at bookstore).
Creating Positive Youth Outcomes
Design a simple, effective program evaluation
process and determine the youth outcomes
that you want to target and improve for
your camp. Exercises, guiding questions,
and camp-specific examples will help
you think about, identify, and design
your program to meet and achieve positive
youth outcomes. The program content draws
from the popular book, Creating Positive
Youth Outcomes (link to specific book
at bookstore). This course will
show you how to be intentional in your
efforts to make camp a positive developmental
experience for children.
These and other courses are available
through ACA's e-Institute.
Register
TODAY!
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Pre-order
the May/June 2009 Staff Training
issue of Camping Magazine for
your staff today!
Visit www.ACAcamps.org/campmag for
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The Basic Camp Director Course (BCDC)
The BCDC provides the basics and more for
camp directors with fewer than six years
of experience or for seasoned program directors
and site managers. This is an excellent
opportunity for camp professionals to develop
well-rounded knowledge of the core areas
and to begin building a personal network
of camp professionals.
The course is offered over five days.
Courses serve twenty-five to thirty-five
participants and are supported by two trainers.
Participants receive an extensive course
notebook and a copy of the most recent
edition of Basic Camp Management, Armand
and Beverly Ball, and the American Camp
Association.
March 22-26, 2009
Mid States
JCYS Camp Henry Horner
P.O. Box 297
Ingleside, IL 60041
For more information and to register, visit www.ACAcamps.org/education/bcdc.
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