https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/more-great-summer

I had been a camper at Cape Cod Sea Camps (CCSC) in Brewster, Massachusetts, from age 12 to 17, when I graduated from CCSC’s Junior Counselor Teen Leadership Program. Those summers at camp were some...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/twenty-insider-tips-working-adolescents-camp

Camp staff beware and be ready! You may have already been warned about your adolescent campers. Wild mood swings and impulsive behaviors will happen, or if you are lucky, you may simply be ignored....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/dreams-our-children

Every parent dreams for their child. In the training of camp staff over the years, one of the most challenging assignments that we have as directors is to share with our staff what it is like to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/youth-concussion-laws-camps-update

In 2011, the American Camp Association published “Concussions: What...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/community-health-centers-what-camps-should-know

This past fall, Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell, invited the American Camp Association and a small group of other youth-serving organizations to join her in a...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/year-review-reflections-camp-legal-issues

This article will survey certain legal issues that have arisen in camp operations over the past year, as presented to the ACA Camp Crisis Hotline, other inquiries to staff, reported cases, and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/airport-arrivals

Since September 11th, 2001, national security concerns have been expressed most dramatically in security changes in air travel. This has tremendous potential for impact on summer camp operations....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/business-camp-starting-new-camp

“It is critical to treat camp like a business or it will absolutely fail, and to know in your head and heart that if you treat camp only as a business it will also fail absolutely; so always...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/behavior-management-parenting-skills-counselors

While at camp, counselors often become campers' surrogate parents. You monitor their diets, bedtimes, and whether they brush their teeth. You cheer for them when they master a new skill and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/talking-about-youth-development-helping-campers-grow-successful-adults

"The resilient child is one who works well, plays well, loves well, and expects well." —Norman Garmezy When we talk about youth, we too often use negative terms: what we would like...