Welcome to the Professional Development Resource Page for volunteers and ACA staff members in ACA local offices. Helpful templates, tools, and links are intended to support your work as leaders in education and professional development.
ACA PD Tools and Templates
Whether you are developing a full-blown major event, or seeking a checklist for stand-alone smaller events, you'll find a variety of helpful resources. All documents are in Microsoft Word format unless stated otherwise.
Professional Development Operations Guide
Alignment Form for Affiliates
- Educational Endorsement Program (EEP) Alignment Info (endorse events, determine CECs)
PD Volunteers Service Descriptions
- Professional Development Leader
- Professional Development Event Leader
- Professional Development Committee Member
Budgeting and ROI
Event Timelines and Planning Checklists
Release of Liability
Program/Session Planning
- Speaker Management Responsibilities
- Session Proposal Evaluation Rubric
- Program Plan Template (Brief)
- Committee Chair Self Evaluation (Post Event)
ACA PD Communications Requests
- ACA Local Newsletter Request
- ACA Post Card Design Request
- ACA Social Media Posting Request
- ACA Mass Marketing Email Request
Helpful ACA Links – Web Gems
- ACA's Professional Development Center
- ACA's Educational Endorsement Program
- Educational Events Calandar
- Continuing Education Credits (CECs)
- Manage My CECs
- Staff Training Certificates of Added Qualifications (CAQ)
- New Director Orientation
- ACA's extensive Core Competency Toolkits
- Jobs at Camp resources including job description templates
- Main research link to a storehouse of camp related research
- CampLine
- Camping Magazine
- ACA books, workbooks, forms and posters
- ACA Public Policy
- Trends in Camping
ACA Professional Development Team
- Erin Flores, eflores@ACAcamps.org
- Melany Irvin, mirvin@ACAcamps.org
- Abbie Parker, aparker@ACAcamps.org
- Kathryn Schaefer, kshcaefer@ACAcamps.org
- Jamie Box, jbox@ACAcamps.org
- Darrell Stillwell dstillwell@acacamps.org