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https://www.acacamps.org/resources/2011-golden-quill-golden-lens-winners
2011 Golden Quill and Golden Lens WinnersGolden Quill Award Practical Leadership: What We Can Learn from Simon Says, Show and Tell, and Sharks Scott Arizala Golden Quill Award of...
https://www.acacamps.org/resources/2010-golden-quill-golden-lens-winners
2010 Golden Quill and Golden Lens WinnersGolden Quill Award Michelle Robbins Broth Meredith Katherine Jones Creating Camp Narratives to Enhance Emotional Growth of HIV+ Youth...
https://www.acacamps.org/resources/2009-golden-quill-golden-lens-winners
2009 Golden Quill and Golden Lens WinnersGolden Quill Award Marina Lukanina Aspira Widening the Circle: Guidelines for Attracting the Latino Population to a Summer Overnight Camp...
https://www.acacamps.org/resources/2008-golden-quill-golden-lens-winners
2008 Golden Quill and Golden Lens WinnersGolden Quill Award Zayanne Thompson A Convenient Truth: How Our Past Can Save the Future and Planting the Seeds to Grow an...
https://www.acacamps.org/resources/designing-your-programs-best-enhance-camp-experience
Designing Your Programs to Best Enhance the Camp ExperienceTop Tips for Camps Intentionally select program activities that provide one or more of the youth-development supports (supportive relationships, safety, youth involvement, skill building)....
https://www.acacamps.org/resources/covid-19-resource-center-camps
COVID-19 – Resource Center for CampsThe safety and health of campers and staff is always the highest priority at camp, and camps have a long history of planning for and managing communicable diseases. With the spread of the coronavirus...
https://www.acacamps.org/resources/campcounts-2022-report
CampCounts 2022 ReportCampCounts 2022 is the latest iteration of ACA’s annual business and industry research survey, which aims to support camp professionals in their operational decision-making and to support ACA’s...
https://www.acacamps.org/research/continuous-improvement/camp-program-quality
Camp Program QualityProgram quality refers to the ways camp staff practices, activities, and program climate foster youth development consistently over time.
https://www.acacamps.org/research/continuous-improvement
Tools for Continuous ImprovementAt ACA, we believe in continuous improvement. We believe that our work for young people is not conceptualized in boxes or checklists; instead, we think about our work in a cyclical way—a way that...
https://www.acacamps.org/research/special-projects/camp-program-quality-initiative
2020-2022 Camp Program Quality InitiativeFunded by the Lilly Endowment, Inc., ACA began a special project to explore and develop systems that support camp professionals in promoting positive youth development through camp experiences.