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ACA Bookstore: Featured Products and
Resources
Stock up now on resources for staff training,
including forms and tools for parent-packets
and more by visiting www.ACAbookstore.org.
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
The Must Have for Parents and Campers .
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 To address, order 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. Bulk discounts
available.
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
A crisis is an event that would detrimentally
and significantly affect the health, safety,
operation, reputation, and/or well-being
of any individual in camp, the camp itself,
or the surrounding community—and it
requires immediate action. 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. Children are irreplaceable.
Make sure your staff fully understand and
respect their responsibility. 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 that
accompanies this guide 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. The book covers many
important topics for new and returning counselors.
Chapters include: A Unique Opportunity (responsibility
as a role model, camp as a positive force
in youth development, arrival, the first
day/night); Today's Campers (social trends,
parent interaction, age and developmental
characteristics); Working with Individual
Campers (reinforcing positive behaviors,
courtesies of group living, understanding
behavior clues, homesickness, bed-wetting,
ADD/ADHD); Working with Groups (setting the
tone for group development, cycles of group
activity planning, group building, inappropriate
group behavior, peer pressure, etc.); and
How to Measure Your Success. Consider the
online course option and help your staff
(and volunteers) start their training prior
to arriving at camp. Learn about the Online Course Option!
 S'mores
and Other Sticky Stuff—A
Game for Training Camp Staff (2nd Edition)
$79.95
S'mores and Other Sticky Stuff is an interactive
game designed to identify sticky situations
and staff responses, promote discussion about
difficult issues, create teachable moments
for staff training, illustrate interdependent
problem-solving strategies that succeed,
affirm each individual's role in the
camp's risk management plan, and share
the camp's culture.
S'mores' new format highlights all "core
areas" of professional development for
camp leadership. Newly revised to accommodate
both small and large group participation
(from 4 to 24), this staff orientation activity-in-a-box
engages four critical audiences at once:
directors, supervisors, counselors, and counselors
in training. A re-designed board with multiple
category approaches allows for the exchange
of knowledge and information across the camp
leadership structure.
Visit the ACA
Bookstore,
provided through a publishing partnership
with Healthy Learning.
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ACA Webinars: Learn "Live" From
the Experts! Sign Up Today!
ACA Webinar — Reducing
Camp Injuries and Illness
 This 90-minute session will focus on strategies
and lessons learned from ACA's five-year
Healthy Camp Study. Learn strategies to keep
staff on the job and campers in program!
This session is a must for directors and
health staff and will be conducted by Linda
Erceg, Association for Camp Nurses. Participate
LIVE on
April 16.
ACA Webinar — Helping
Camps Reconnect Children with Nature
This 90-minute session will focus on ACA's
new Affinity for Nature outcomes scale to
document the emotional connection to nature
made by your campers. This informative session
helps show the value of nature-based programs
at your camp. This Webinar is generously
supported by the Lilly Endowment Inc. The
session is conducted by Barry Garst, ACA
director of development and research application.
Participate
LIVE on May 14.
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Prove it! Learn How to Measure the FUN at
Your Camp
Add to your library with ACA's outcomes
measurement must-have resources. Plan and
implement a simple, effective evaluation
process for your camp. Prove that campers
learn, increase self-confidence, have fun,
and make friends while at camp. Discover
realistic, valid, and reliable results that
will help you sell your camp story. Choose
from these resources:
 Creating Positive Youth Outcomes
Includes how-to instructions and measurement
scales you can use to increase positive
youth outcomes in your camp. Evaluate
current programs and target outcomes
of your choice, help staff understand
their role in achieving the youth outcomes
your camp targets, and turn your targeted
youth outcomes into a camp asset. Order
this book. Register
for this e-Institute course. Designing Quality Youth Programs
Includes how-to instructions plus appendices
and CD-ROM with program-ready adaptable
worksheets. Make your program a better
place — this process is designed
to be individualized to fit your mission
and philosophy, to reflect input from
your young people and staff, and to find
strategies that make sense for your program.
Order
the book. Register
for the e-Institute course.
 Collection of ACA Youth Outcomes Measurement
Tools
If you're looking only for the instruments
to measure youth outcomes, order these scales.
Includes all the scales in Creating
Positive Youth Outcomes plus the Affinity
for Nature scale. Order
just the measurement tools.
Affinity for Nature — Booklet
and Tools
 A
new outcome measure, Affinity
for Nature measures
the emotional connections youth (ten to seventeen
years old) may make to nature as a result
of your program. This statistically tested
measure has short (five questions) and long
(ten questions) versions. Analysis templates
are available for all versions for ease of
data entry and statistical analysis. Order
this booklet and tools.
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 Reduce Nature-Deficit
Disorder in Your Camp!
Do you recognize the health problems
caused by youth who do not spend time
outdoors? Are you able to talk to parents
about the health benefits of camp?
Developed in partnership with the
NRPA, Connecting Children with Nature,
is a three-hour online course designed
for educators and recreation professionals
who work with youth on the root causes
of and solutions to "nature-deficit
disorder." The development of
this course was generously supported
by the Lilly Endowment Inc.
Upon completing this course, learners
will be able to:
- Identify why children need to develop
a stronger relationship with nature;
- Recognize the health problems caused
by failure to spend time outdoors;
- Discuss how we as a society arrived
at this problem;
- Describe the health benefits of
playing outside;
- Illustrate what different groups
and organizations are doing to combat
this situation;
- Explain how youth development professionals
are working to foster future environmental
stewards; and
- Identify resources and best practices
for ways that professionals and citizens
can get involved.
To learn more about the course
or to register, click
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