https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-changing-risk-paying-coordinating-health-care-camp-after-health-care-reform
Risk Management: Changing Risk — Paying for and Coordinating Health Care at Camp after Health Care ReformThis information is current as of July 24, 2013. For the latest information, please visit www.ACAcamps.org/...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/welcome-digital-cabin-how-new-technologies-can-deliver-better-summer-experience
Welcome to the Digital Cabin: How New Technologies Can Deliver a Better Summer ExperienceTechnology and camping? Hearing those two words together often sparks ire among camp management. “We don’t allow our kids to use techie toys!” you declare. Of course, unless you run a computer camp,...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/transgender-staff-anti-discrimination
Transgender Staff and Anti-DiscriminationThe subject of transgender staff at camps is one that is getting a lot of play lately. For those camps that have not yet dealt with a current staff member transitioning or a new...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/big-eight-other-culinary-menaces-camper-society
The Big Eight . . . and Other Culinary Menaces to Camper Society“The gluten-free cinnamon rolls are amazing!” Those emphatic words are emblazoned in my brain, stamped into my memory. As tears began to well in her eyes, Annalise, one of our counselors, looked...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/moving-mainstreaming-outsourcing-what-everyone-can-learn-working-different-needs
Moving from Mainstreaming to Outsourcing: What Everyone Can Learn from Working with Different NeedsI run two different camps for kids with different needs, including a resident camp for kids with autism. A concerned parent called to talk about how she wanted her son to be “mainstreamed” in the...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/delivering-happiness-five-things-camps-can-learn-zappos
Delivering Happiness: Five Things Camps Can Learn from ZapposTony Hsieh's book, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, struck a cord with millions of people. The best-selling book by the CEO of Zappos.com, Inc. about the...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/transgender-youth-role-camps-might-play
Transgender Youth — The Role Camps Might PlayYou may be asking yourself, "What does a discussion about transgender individuals have to do with me? Why am I reading this in Camping Magazine?" We've had the conversation about the LGBTQ community...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/out-about-creating-safe-environment-lgbtq-campers-staff
Out and About: Creating a Safe Environment for LGBTQ Campers and StaffIt was June 2006. I had been conducting staff training at a coed camp in the Northeast. I had already spoken to the entire staff about the “real work” of camp, which I see as helping campers use the...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-privacy-security-risks
Risk Management: Privacy and Security RisksThe right to privacy is well established in the legal system of the United States. As citizens of the United States, we expect that our right to privacy will be respected. Virtually all businesses...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/electronic-medical-records-camp-setting-hipaa-considerations
Electronic Medical Records in the Camp Setting: HIPAA ConsiderationsOne of the pervasive considerations with electronic medical records (EMR) is protecting the privacy of the individual. People seem to get very nervous about security issues with electronic records,...