The CampLine Shines Online!
 Beginning with the Fall 2009 issue, look
for The CampLine online! The
CampLine,
published three times a year, has served as the premier legal, legislative, and
risk management resource for camp professional for decades—and will continue
to provide quality content in a new online version only.
Online Advantages:
Easily accessible archive of all issues.
Download and print any issue at home or at
the office.
Another step in ACA's Green Spoken
Here campaign.
A faster way to receive vital and timely
information.
All American Camp Association (ACA) members
will receive an e-mail notification when
each new issue of The CampLine is available
online.
Visit The CampLine online today! www.ACAcamps.org/campline
The CampLine is a free publication to all ACA
members. Nonmembers can subscribe at www.ACAcamps.org/campline.
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New Cause Marketing Agreement Supports Change
a Life Today: Send a Child to Camp
Healthport, a company that provides hospital
billing coding services, has chosen ACA's
Change
a Life Today: Send a Child to Camp campaign as its charitable cause for a current
e-mail promotion launched to 1200 hospitals
from July 13 and running through September
30, 2009. For every client lead during this
promotion, the company will donate $10 to
the Change a Life Today campaign.
Additionally, during this promotion, a link
is provided within the e-mail for personal
donations. Healthport will match any donation
up to $100.
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H1N1 Hot Topics
Share Questions and Solutions About H1N1
A new
message board is available for camp
directors to share questions and solutions
regarding H1N1.
ACA continues to work closely with the CDC
and the Association of Camp Nurses to monitor
the H1N1 Influenza situation and provide
regular updates and information to our camps.
Visit www.ACAcamps.org/hottopics/swine_flu.php regularly
for any new information or guidance.
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Opportunity for Camps to Sign Up for Camp
2 Grow Environmental Leadership Program
 Camp
2 Grow is an environmental leadership and
stewardship program developed by the American
Camp Association through funding from the
Lilly Endowment Inc.
The Camp 2 Grow Environmental Leadership
Program teaches middle and high-school aged
youth fundamental leadership knowledge and
skills in a nature-based setting. The nucleus
of the program is LifeKnowledge® - a
cutting-edge leadership curriculum created
by the National FFA Organization, with environmental
stewardship applications designed to be integrated
into a typical camp schedule and completed
within a two-week period.
Based on a solid educational model and tied
to national education standards, each lesson
includes:
- learning objectives and applications,
- step-by-step instructions for easy delivery,
and
- an intentional scope and sequence that
will help youth develop essential leadership
competencies.
Camps can customize the Environmental Leadership
Program by selecting additional lessons most
appropriate to achieve camp-specific goals.
Earlier this year, ACA debuted Camp 2 Grow
in 35 grant-funded camps. These camps
are helping ACA to refine and evaluate Camp
2 Grow.
Any day or resident
camp can buy-in to the Environmental Leadership
Program and gain full access to the leadership
lessons by registering
at http://ACA.lifeknowledge.com ,
then clicking on the Camp 2 Grow tab.
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Be Part of History .
. . ACA's History
During the anniversary years for the American Camp Association (2010) and organized
camping (2011), ACA will commemorate the anniversaries with an online Web tribute
and a historical series in Camping Magazine. We are hoping you are willing to
send a selection of historical photos from your camp that we can use as part
of a visual tribute to the history of the camp experience. We plan to do an extensive
photo essay in the January/February 2010 issue of Camping
Magazine, use historical
photos to accompany each of the historical articles in the two-year series, create
an online historical photo gallery, and use photos as part of a slide show at
the national conference in February.
We're willing to take as many photos
as you are willing to share — photos
that show campers, staff, activities, buildings,
equipment, etc. — and
reflect the varied history of the camp experience.
We ask that you send them to us digitally — that
all prints be scanned — as we do not
want to be responsible for returning your
irreplaceable photographs.
- Scan and save in full color (even if
the images are black and white) at, at
least, 300 dpi in JPEG or TIFF formats,
and e-mail them to graphics@ACAcamps.org.
- If the files are too large to e-mail
(over 10MB), then copy them to a CD or
DVD and mail to us at: Camping
Magazine/Historical
Series, 5000 State Road 67 North, Martinsville,
IN, 46151
We'll need photos no later than October
1, 2009. You can provide them to us any way
that is convenient.
Thank you for helping us. We have so much to
celebrate!
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