https://www.acacamps.org/blog/how-measure-enrollment-part-two

To truly understand if you are serving campers in the ways you hope, you need to look at enrollment from several different angles.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/how-measure-enrollment-part-one

Enrollment represents the number of campers we serve — but, as straightforward as that sounds, it’s not. 

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/youre-invited-camp-sustainability-needs-assessment

Young people are longing for urgent and effective solutions to the environmental crisis. What better place to model and mentor sustainable solutions than camp, where thousands of children around...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/%E2%80%8Bbuilding-resilience-through-relationships-upcoming-webinar-series

A new youth development webinar series will discuss the core developmental stages of children over time and explore strategies for building meaningful,...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/introducing-new-free-friend-camp-program-quality-staff-checklist

Before I get started, I have a confession: I lied. I said in the title that in this post I was going to introduce you to a new friend, but that’s not entirely true. The Camp Program Quality Staff...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/calling-all-camp-enthusiasts-special-issue-camp-research-here

This blog is about a special double issue of the Journal of Youth Development focused entirely on camp research.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/happy-campers-how-camp-relationships-promote-social-emotional-learning

Young people are diverse and dynamic, and they have myriad pathways to success. Unfortunately, youth development research often highlights watered-down averages of sample sets that offer limited...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/lets-get-party-started-are-you

The research party has started, but, like most parties, the research project is most impactful when everyone at the party is engaged, giving and taking in equal parts so the entire community party...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/campwire-episode-3-marketing-media-camp-mike-lang

Listen to the third episode of CampWire as the Director of Marketing from Camp Tecumseh discussing marketing and media at camp.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/summer-camp-unique-environment-social-emotional-learning

As an education research organization affiliated with the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, we thought it was an exciting opportunity to investigate camp as a unique learning...