2026 Camps on Campus Conference
Please join us in San Diego, California, on Monday, February 16 and Tuesday, February 17, 2026 for the Camps on Campus Preconference! Come meet fellow professionals in K12 and higher education who provide programming for youth outside of school time!
Need help convincing your supervisor or institution to let you attend? Download this letter template and revise as you need!
Thinking of submitting a session proposal for future ACA National Conferences? Check out these tips and suggestions! View slides View recording
tentative schedule to be posted soon!
Check out what happened at our 2025 Camps on Campus Conference in Dallas, Texas!
Want to know more about the presentations and what was discussed? Email [email protected]
2024-2025 Networking and Professional Development for You
Conversation, community-building, and learning. This is a chance to support and be supported by others in the community of professionals who run or manage summer youth programs at college, university, or K-12 campuses. Join us for facilitated conversations on a variety of topics including, staffing, medications management, connecting the youth protection office with the youth program planners, the importance of youth programs to the broader university, and more. Register for these free events. For more information, contact Ruthi Hernandez at [email protected] or 765-349-3539.
2024-2025 Camps on Campus Virtual Conversations
- Tuesday, May 6, 2025 @ 3:00 pm EST
2025-2016 Virtual Conversations - SAVE THE DATES!
- Tuesday, September 23, 2025 @ 3:00 pm EST
- Tuesday, October 21, 2025 @ 3:00 pm EST
- Tuesday, November 18th, 2025 @ 3:00 pm EST
- Tuesday, December 16, 2025 @ 3:00 pm EST
- Tuesday, January 20, 2026 @ 3:00 pm EST
- Tuesday, March 24, 2026 @ 3:00 pm EST
- Tuesday, April 21, 2026 @ 3:00 pm EST
- Tuesday, May 19, 2026 @ 3:00 pm EST
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Check out some of our Previous Sessions!
- Rethinking Staff Recruitment, Engagement, and Retention: A Mental Health Approach
- Mission-Oriented Staff Training: view slides
- "Ages & Stages": view recording
- "Program Quality & Continuous Improvement": view recording
- "Camps on Campus & Effective Parent Partnerships": view slides view recording
- "Camps on Campus & Accessibility": view slides
Considering Accreditation
- Accreditation Office Hours – One-hour zoom meetings to learn more about ACA standards. Free. Please RSVP.
- Ready. Set. Go. – One-hour Zoom meetings to help you create a plan for approaching the accreditation process. Free. Please RSVP.
Create Your Own Staff Training
- Choose from among ACA's online courses, live webinars, recorded webinars. Build a custom online package for your staff training. Add your own branding as well as your own materials you want staff to read (including articles, documents, assignments, quizzes, forums, wikis, and glossaries). Learn more.
New Director Orientation
The ACA New Director Orientation (NDO) is a one-day course for seasonal or newer camp directors, assistant directors, program directors, and others moving into camp leadership positions. The course includes an overview of all the aspects of the director's job with the primary focus on the summer operation. The NDO course materials have been designed to help newer directors and supervisors develop the skills they need to be effective leaders for their camp program.
- Find an already scheduled NDO to send your staff to. Learn more.
- Interested in hosting an NDO on your campus. Contact us.
Certificates of Added Qualification
These intensive online courses are self-directed learning that build the added qualifications you and your staff need. Each certificate course covers all thirteen core competencies required to run a camp successfully and includes curriculum components suited to a variety of learning styles. Continuing education credits available.
