https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/she-thinks-shes-pregnant-what-do-we-do

Updated June 2014 with a new resource on state minor consent laws. Introduction...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/crucial-conversations-can-make-or-break-camp

Every camp director has been there. In fact, if you’re like most camp leaders, you’re there right now. If asked, you could immediately name two or three people with whom you should have a crucial...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/are-your-campers-picky-eaters

With arms firmly crossed and sour-faced determination, ten-year-old Jaden said, “If I have to eat that, I’ll just go hungry!” Campers paused between bites and all eyes shifted to the two counselors...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/if-first-you-dont-succeed

When I was six or seven, my parents decided I needed to do something structured a couple days a week during the day in the summertime. They ended up sending me to a gym camp, a local day camp that...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/do-you-know-what-you-believe

At this year’s ACA National Conference in Atlanta I had the privilege of co-hosting the unfortunately titled session: “Breakfast with the Legends.” Our intrepid conference chair reported that young...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-people

I think on a Facebook post someone asked: “How do YOU define ‘camp people’? We use that term all the time, and one of my parents asked me. I know what I mean, but how do the rest of you...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/aca-makes-it-possible

Dear Friends, Passion provides hope, direction, and vision. One quality I admire the most in the camp community is the dedication and commitment to the children we all serve. It is what we all do...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/programs-designed-let-campers-shine-2016-eleanor-eells-award-winners

Each year, ACA's Eleanor P. Eells Award for Program Excellence recognizes camps that epitomize the award's namesake by developing exemplary programming that effectively and creatively responds to the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/tish-july-2016

I am writing this from Chicago, where I chaired my last in-person American Camp Association Board of Directors meeting. The six years I spent on the board (four as chair) have been an amazing...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/if-you-build-it-revisited

Some years back, I shared a column with the readers here called, "If You Build It, Will They Come?" The premise turned that familiar movie line on its head, asking owners and executives to reconsider...