https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/creating-leadership-team-making-cake

One of the biggest challenges camp professionals face is hiring, orienting, and training staff. It seems like an impossible task given the limitations of time, starting dates, school requirements,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/case-studies-reveal-camper-growth

Every year camp directors receive letters from campers’ parents describing growth experiences that began at camp and have continued to impact their son’s or daughter’s life in the home and community...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/starfish-values-program

Moral education — the training of heart and mind toward the good — involves many things. It involves rules and precepts - the do's and don'ts of life with others - as well as...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/discipline-not-dirty-word-positive-responses-challenging-behavior

Challenging children are not out to get you — they are out to get their needs met. While there will be moments when it may seem precisely as if they are out to get you, more often than not...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/art-camp-how-arts-programs-fuel-self-expression-youth-development

The shiny coach bus rumbled to a stop just in front of a small, white bungalow bearing a faded green sign reading: Camp Office. Our chaperone, a freshly scrubbed college kid charged with maintaining...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/epidemic-translating-drug-prevention-principles-camp

The American Camp Association is committed to promoting healthy lifestyles for youth. In this issue of Camping Magazine we are pleased to present the second in a three-...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/more-village-fostering-community-response-underage-drinking

Anyone who has attended or worked at a summer camp knows the experience transcends that offered by the mere existence of soccer balls, tennis courts, or sailboats. Camps are communities—villages...