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Educating Parents: What Is Your Camp Obligated to Do — and How?

Parents are our partners. Not only do they control the supply chain of campers, and to some extent our young-adult seasonal staff, they also are the ones who pay and ensure their...

Milk Allergy: Three-Year-Old's Death Sparks Expanding Food Allergy Protection Laws

Bubbly and energetic three-year-old Elijah Silvera attended a New York City daycare center. He had a severe milk allergy, which his daycare employees were aware of and had...

Delegation Don'ts for Camp Directors

Delegation can make you effective or lazy, so, as a camp director, what are the things you should never delegate? The Mission Others should be in the room when you’re figuring out...

Facing the Digital Age with Humanity

President/CEO Tom Rosenberg's latest Camping Magazine column.
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We Are Learning Together: Taking Steps Away from Native Cultural Appropriation

"You can't talk about us, without us!" a good friend of mine has told me time and again. I can’t agree more. I write to you from and honor the land of the Lakota people on the...
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Seasonal Staff Development: Leveraging Educational Supervision for Recruitment and Retention — And Because It's the Right Thing to Do

The average seasonal staff member will clock approximately 840 work hours over an 8-week period. This means we camp professionals are squeezing a regular employee workload of 21...
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How to Run a Teen Program at a Summer Camp Wary of Teenagers

Some camps welcome teens, but others do not — perhaps because they find normative adolescent behaviors intolerable. Why should we care? Because the summer camp experience is...

Soul to Soul Communication

Year after year, I’m amazed at the breadth of knowledge camp professionals bring and share with each other at the ACA National Conference . New theories in child development, risk...

Allergies Go Beyond Foods: What to Watch in the Camp Setting

We are all well aware of food allergies being a top concern for children, and especially those who are away from home at camp. Camps have worked hard to ensure that top food...

Healthy Staff, Healthy Camps

My 1978 Fiat had a toggle switch for lights — and it was awesome. They were on or off, no flipping around with running lights, fog lights, or any other mess. We love these single...
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