https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/healthy-inside-out-role-mental-health-counseling-summer-camp
Healthy Inside and Out: the Role of Mental Health Counseling at Summer CampI spent my childhood summers at a sleepaway camp in Pennsylvania, and I loved it. When I turned 18 in 2021, I couldn’t wait to work as a counselor myself. I was following in my mother’s footsteps;...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/educating-parents-what-your-camp-obligated-do-how
Educating Parents: What Is Your Camp Obligated to Do — and How?Parents are our partners. Not only do they control the supply chain of campers, and to some extent our young-adult seasonal staff, they also are the ones who pay and ensure their children arrive with...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/facing-digital-age-humanity
Facing the Digital Age with HumanityPresident/CEO Tom Rosenberg's latest Camping Magazine column.
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/hitting-high-notes-camp-courageous
Hitting the High Notes at Camp CourageousAs a group of children with autism play the outdoor musical instruments together in harmony in the Rotary Musical Park at Camp Courageous, a lady with a visual impairment sits holding her ears,...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/newsletter/volunteer-voices-interview-shanelle-rauh-dave-thoensen
Volunteer Voices — Interview with Shanelle Rauh and Dave ThoensenI recently had the chance to speak with Shanelle Rauh and Dave Thoensen, who are the co-chairs of this year’s National Conference committee. Bekah Carmichael: Thanks for taking...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/mitigating-long-term-bereavement-risks-addressing-family-grief
Mitigating Long-Term Bereavement Risks — Addressing Family GriefBereavement camps for children are now commonplace around the United States (McClatchey & Wimmer, 2018). Some of these are recreational, and others are more clinically focused. Most do not...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/how-run-teen-program-summer-camp-wary-teenagers
How to Run a Teen Program at a Summer Camp Wary of TeenagersSome camps welcome teens, but others do not — perhaps because they find normative adolescent behaviors intolerable. Why should we care? Because the summer camp experience is uniquely...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/seasonal-staff-development-leveraging-educational-supervision-recruitment-retention
Seasonal Staff Development: Leveraging Educational Supervision for Recruitment and Retention — And Because It's the Right Thing to DoThe average seasonal staff member will clock approximately 840 work hours over an 8-week period. This means we camp professionals are squeezing a regular employee workload of 21 weeks into just 8!...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-creates-communities-belonging-greater-well-being-lives-well-lived
Camp Creates Communities of Belonging for Greater Well-Being and Lives Well LivedPresident/CEO Tom Rosenberg's latest Camping Magazine column.
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/soul-soul-communication
Soul to Soul CommunicationYear after year, I’m amazed at the breadth of knowledge camp professionals bring and share with each other at the...