https://www.acacamps.org/resources/pool-spa-safety-federal-laws-applicable-camps

Virginia Graeme Baker Pool & Spa Safety Act The Virginia Graeme Baker Pool & Spa Safety Act (VGB) promotes the safe use of pools, spas and hot tubs. The act imposes mandatory federal...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/health-care-reform-impact-camps-employers

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act (HCERA) were signed into law in 2009 and 2010 respectively. Included in these new “health...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/create-business-plan

Developing a business plan will force you, as the camp owner or director, to take an objective, unemotional look at your camp in its entirety. Often new or prospective camp owners and directors...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/help-stop-asian-longhorned-beetle-killing-more-trees

For any camp professional, imagining a camp without trees would be hard to fathom.  Especially since for the past century, you and other ACA camp professionals have worked to preserve the camp...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/middle-adolescence-age-14-16

Developmental Milestones Increase their hypothetical reasoning abilities Conduct increasing future planning Experience further sexual maturation and explore issues of...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/give-gift-camp

Each holiday season, parents, grandparents, aunts, and uncles are faced with the hard decision of what gifts to give children. This year, as part of your holiday gift list, consider the ...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/partnership-caring-parents-camps-join-together

Child Protection is a Shared Responsibility Nothing substitutes for the vigilance and care of parents in determining a safe situation for their children. While no institution--schools, churches,...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/instructor-update-course

This course serves as a review of standards revisions and changes for currently certified instructors and associate instructors. Curriculum links contains the notes view of the PowerPoint slide deck...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/ten-ways-be-proactive-bad-economy

Everyone is painfully aware that the US economy has taken a downturn. Many businesses and industries are facing difficult and scary times. Now that people are more concerned about their future...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/para-promover-el-desarrollo-juvenil-por-medio-de-la-investigaci%C3%B3n

Para promover el desarrollo juvenil por medio de la investigación Para enriquecer la vida de los niños: Una generosa beca de Lilly Endowment Inc. ayudó a financiar el estudio de...