https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-dear-counselor

Dear Counselor, I love coming to camp every year, and I look forward to the end of the season and the feeling of accomplishment from all that I will have completed. I also love connecting with my...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/are-you-mentally-physically-prepared-work-camp

The care and safety of other people’s children is a sacred responsibility. All staff at camp are in loco parentis (in place of parents). So, if you are working as a camp staff member this summer and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/becoming-mentor

Back in the early ’70s, my favorite counselor’s name was Billy, but everyone called him “Banjo Billy” because he was an accomplished singer/songwriter. He was caring, funny, adventurous, fair, and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/calling-all-risk-champions

Each year, the Insurance Committee holds a Roundtable with many of the camp industry insurers and brokers in conjunction with the American Camp Association National Conference. The 2017 Roundtable...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/parents/coping-first-time-camp-experiences

For thousands, the camp experience has been a long-standing family tradition. For others, the camp experience seems almost counterintuitive. Send your child off to camp for maybe weeks at a time? "As...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/oh-snap-job-new-teen-leadership-program-boston-explorers

Miguel is trying his best to get 11-year-old Amir to do something he doesn't want to do. As a first-time Leader-in-Training (LIT) at Boston Explorers, Miguel, 16, is finding out firsthand that being...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/when-meetings-take-over

Before returning to the camp profession, I spent a couple of years working in higher education as part of the ministry staff at a small liberal arts Christian college. Our department's job was to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/operational-change-aca-accreditation

After evaluation of the implementation of the Operational Change that occurred in nine of the twenty-three local areas in ACA in 2016, it was determined that all additional local areas will be...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/yikes-bed-bugs

American Camp Association Resources Bed Bugs — What Every Camp Needs To Know  The CampLine issues...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/camps-n-codes

For camp administrators, it is all too often that they find their vision of an renovation or expansion project is not in tune with the building codes and regulations enforced by the local Authorities...