Camp Research & Trends

Industry-Relevant Research for Camp Professionals from ACA

Enhance the Quality of the Camp Experience

• Measure Youth Outcomes
• Healthy Camp Toolbox: Resources for Injury and Illness Prevention
• Spirituality
• Implement a Camp Program Improvement Process (PIP)

Understand the Importance of the Camp Experience

• Youth Development and the Camp Experience
• Nature-Based Experiences and Healthy Child Development

Improve Camp Business Operations

• Enrollment
• Compensation and Benefits
• Budget and Finance
• Sites, Facilities, and Programs
• Emerging Issues
• Camp-School Partnership Survey

Connect and Collaborate

• Briefing Papers (written by Committee for the Advancement of Research and Evaluation)
• Submit a Camping Magazine Research Column
• Camp Research Presentations
• Camp Research Symposium
• Camp Research Collaboration Summit Summary
• Scholarly Publications and Presentations
• Research Collaboration Process
• Marge Scanlin Outstanding Research Award
• PowerPoint Presentations
• Committee for the Advancement of Research and Evaluation (CARE)
• Bibliographies of Camp-Related Research