https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/enhancing-inclusion-campers-sensory-processing-concerns-through-camp-counselor-training
Enhancing Inclusion for Campers with Sensory-Processing Concerns through Camp Counselor TrainingSummer camps provide children an opportunity for goal achievement, a sense of community, and development of self-concept. Toward that end, goal-directed camp activities revolve around teamwork, as...
https://www.acacamps.org/book/marketing-fundamentals-101-no-cost-ways-promote-recreation-parks-play-or-practically-free
Marketing FUNdamentals: 101 No-Cost* Ways to Promote Recreation, Parks, and Play (*or practically free)Marketing FUNdamentals: 101 No-Cost* Ways to Promote Recreation, Parks, and Play (*or practically free) offers the common sense, insight, and customer perspective that every park and...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/seasonal-staff-development-leveraging-educational-supervision-recruitment-retention
Seasonal Staff Development: Leveraging Educational Supervision for Recruitment and Retention — And Because It's the Right Thing to DoThe 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 weeks into just 8!...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/how-run-teen-program-summer-camp-wary-teenagers
How to Run a Teen Program at a Summer Camp Wary of TeenagersSome 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 uniquely...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-creates-communities-belonging-greater-well-being-lives-well-lived
Camp Creates Communities of Belonging for Greater Well-Being and Lives Well LivedPresident/CEO Tom Rosenberg's latest Camping Magazine column.
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/soul-soul-communication
Soul to Soul CommunicationYear after year, I’m amazed at the breadth of knowledge camp professionals bring and share with each other at the...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/healthy-staff-healthy-camps
Healthy Staff, Healthy CampsMy 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-choice, yes...
https://www.acacamps.org/resources/covid-19-resource-center-camps
COVID-19 – Resource Center for CampsThe safety and health of campers and staff is always the highest priority at camp, and camps have a long history of planning for and managing communicable diseases. With the spread of the coronavirus...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/leave-no-trace-education-inclusion-approaches-strengthen-your-camp-program
Leave No Trace: Education and Inclusion Approaches to Strengthen Your Camp ProgramLeave No Trace, the best-known stewardship education program on US public lands, helps to make people a conservation solution through easy, actionable practices that reduce negative impacts.
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/yes-improvising-your-revenue-stream
“Yes, and . . . ” Improvising Your Revenue StreamAs industry and societal expectations push for updated facilities, in-depth programming, equitably paid summer staff, and larger year-round teams to make it all happen, camps face the challenge of...