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

In June of 1963, at the age of eight, I boarded an overnight train in Chicago bound for Camp Agawak in Minocqua, Wisconsin. I was clutching my Teddy bear, Zelda. Jittery during those first weeks,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/art-science-youth-development-role-camp-counselor

What do campers need from the counselors who work with them? They need caring relationships with adults they can trust. They need clear limits, high expectations, and healthy challenges. Campers need...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/helping-homesick-camper

Many campers experience homesickness. This article will advise summer camp counselors how to help their campers overcome homesickness.

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/ins-outs-hosting-service-dog-camp

This article is meant to complement the March 2019 CampLine article on the legal obligations surrounding service animals at camp, “...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/rabies-exposure-or-not

Nothing is ever simple. Minnesota’s Department of Health, like many others, considers it an exposure to rabies when “a person wakes up in a room in which a bat is flying.” That’s known as a “case...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/rabies-awareness-camp-perspective

Many camp professionals consider the bat a benign, friendly critter. Readers may have grown up with an occasional bat flying through the house and the dear things are often seen around camp. Despite...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/revised-ada-requirements-what-do-they-mean-you

Though the idea of working to include disabled people in all facets of life is an old idea, it has relatively recent regulatory roots. Beyond being a good idea, that concept has been the proverbial “...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/change-focus-improving-lifeguard-vigilance

Most drownings are preventable. However, the cold-hard reality is that 19 percent of drowning deaths in the US involving children occur in swimming pools with certified lifeguards present —...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/make-yourself-home-partnering-rental-property

As children and staff members are eager to return to camp to see familiar faces and places each summer, we often hear people comment about going back to their "summer home." Our camp homes are places...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/art-noticing

A strong focus on mental, emotional, social health (MESH) elements within the camp community has triggered both strategies to cope with MESH concerns and an emphasis on making camp a more MESH-...