https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-global-giving

Giving has always been a critical lesson that we teach campers and staff as part of the camp experience. Living and learning together, campers must give respect to their peers and camp staff. In...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/environmental-impairment-risk

Our world is fragile and so are we! Could we have a starker reminder of this than the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year? There are many lessons which...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/we-asked-experts-our-most-popular-legal-opinions

Since 2005, the American Camp Association (ACA) has relied upon the legal expertise of Charles R. (Reb) Gregg, Catherine Hansen-Stamp and others to help organizations understand many of the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/are-you-ready-e-sign-revolution

Introduction In 2006, we wrote an article for CampLine entitled “Electronic Communication — Legal and Practical Issues to Consider In the Information Age.” That...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-elephant-living-room

By itself, this month's metaphoric title may already have caused some readers to turn the page because it suggests that the facility guy is on a tirade about something we all know about but don't...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/increasing-your-preventive-maintenance-efforts

Manage Time. Have staff do both reactive and preventive maintenance. Do not focus energies only on what's visible, or reactive maintenance. Train staff in preventive maintenance. Staff need to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/myth-risk-promoting-healthy-behavior-challenging-teens

Most camp professionals have known intuitively for years what new Teens Today research from SADD (Students Against Destructive Decisions) and Liberty Mutual Group now makes statistically clear —...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/rites-passage-camp-pays-youth-development-happiness-health-safety

For years sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists have mourned the loss of traditions marking important childhood "rites of passage." In earlier American culture, movement toward adulthood...

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...