https://www.acacamps.org/download/2009-spring-campline

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/under-influence-respect-responsibility-conduct-camp-counselors

Among the many challenges camp directors face at staff training time is effectively addressing the personal conduct of those charged with caring for the campers—a task made increasingly difficult by...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camping-alone-connection-consistency-contribution-how-summer-camps-build-social-capital

Eight years ago, Harvard University Professor Robert Putnam published a book, Bowling Alone, chronicling the demise of connection in modern-day American society and warning that the precipitous...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/rethinking-health-center-assessing-your-health-center-setting-goals

The health center is a critical link in developing and maintaining a safe environment for your campers. However, providing adequate care to an active young population can be challenging. How should...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/evaluating-good-season

Several months after the ending of the 2002 camp season, a concerned camp director contacted me. As the director of a small nonprofit camp, he had received a bit of critical feedback from the board...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/prepare-now-resources-current-hot-topics

Over the past several months, the American Camp Association (ACA) has been receiving questions focused around several “hot topics.” These topics include: the Americans with Disabilities Act...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/part-i-letters-my-campers-directors-guide-mentoring-youth

In the bottom drawer of my rather cavernous, and somewhat dusty, file cabinet—wedged between a pile of discarded Cape Cod souvenirs and an assortment of T-shirts—sits the treasure of a life's work...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/contingency-planning-art-developing-plan-b

Tom Peters, the author and business management guru, suggested several years ago we should thrive on chaos, but most people and businesses don't. Most of us would like to have events take place...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/healthy-teens-hooking-losing-out

Reports of a fourteen-year-old middle school girl performing oral sex on a sixteen-year-old high school boy differed only slightly from scores of similar tales making headlines across the country....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/bridges-culverts-fords-ditch-time-reprised

In my November/December 2011 column, we looked at roadway drainage, focusing mostly on how water gets from the road surface and then how it’s conveyed in ditches parallel to the roadway. Since we...