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https://www.acacamps.org/blog/sponsored/key-medical-evaluation-asking-right-questions-get-right-answers
The Key to Medical Evaluation: Asking the Right Questions to Get the Right Answers“How long has your stomach been hurting? You’re feeling dizzy in the heat — how much water did you drink today? Is that rash itchy or painful? Can you walk on that ankle?” Innocuous questions can...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/protecting-campers-carbon-monoxide-poisoning
Protecting Campers from Carbon Monoxide PoisoningThis year’s summer camp season is over, and you’ve brought joy to hundreds or thousands of children and an incredible experience to staff members. Congratulations! Now it’s time to start thinking...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/growth-through-play
Growth through PlayAbout a year and a half ago, as I was nearing the completion of my college degree, I faced the reality of beginning my true adult life and was largely overwhelmed by the idea of it all. I surfed...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/shellfish-allergy-least-encountered-most-dangerous
Shellfish Allergy: The Least Encountered, the Most DangerousAlmost seven million Americans have an allergy to shellfish based on consumption amount, age, and locale. Shellfish are aquatic animals with a shell or shell-like exoskeleton. The two major...
https://www.acacamps.org/blog/sponsored/goes-your-guide-summer-training
GOES Health — Your Guide to Summer TrainingSummer is just around the corner, which means it’s almost time for summer camp! Growing up, I spent my summers at a three-week sleepaway camp on the Oregon Coast. It was where I learned to love the...
https://www.acacamps.org/blog/sponsored/how-redefine-oral-care-campers-orthodontic-treatment-while-camp-summer
How to Redefine Oral Care for Campers in Orthodontic Treatment While at Camp This SummerIt’s a fact that sometimes, braces or aligners just don’t feel good. Inflammation is an important part of the process of moving teeth. But sometimes, that inflammation aches, feels itchy, or...
https://www.acacamps.org/blog/everything-everywhere-all-once-how-summer-camps-help-emerging-adults
Everything, Everywhere, All at Once: How Summer Camps Help Emerging AdultsGrowing up requires many important developmental stages and steps one must master. Camp can help.
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/air-quality-camp-environment
Air Quality in the Camp EnvironmentSevere weather events and changing climate are contributing to many challenges for summer camps. The summer of 2023 presented new obstacles for traditional outdoor camp activities due to an onslaught...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/water-exploring-its-significance-sustenance-sources
Water: Exploring Its Significance, Sustenance, and SourcesWater is sustenance for every living being on earth. Albert Szent-Gyorgi, MD summed it up best, saying, “Water is life’s matter and matrix, mother and medium. There is no life without water” (Szent-...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/does-summer-camp-have-perpetuate-junk-food-culture
Does Summer Camp Have to Perpetuate Junk Food Culture?"Junk food” is a term we often use to describe highly processed or ultra-processed food that likely has “many added ingredients such as sugar, salt, fat, and artificial colors or preservatives. '...