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https://www.acacamps.org/blog/sponsored/music-making-camps

Music-Making in Camps

How can camps use music to enhance camper experiences, and why is it so important?

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/nasa-globe-goes-camps-summer-long-temperature-data-collection

NASA GLOBE Goes to Camp's Summer Long Temperature Data Collection

Join summer campers from over 30 GLOBE camps across the United States as they collect air temperature, soil temperature, surface temperature, and water temperature data ...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/sponsored/rhythm-power-drum-positive-benefits-group-drumming-camps

Rhythm and the Power of the Drum: The Positive Benefits of Group Drumming for Camps

There are 3.2 million hashtags of #drumming on Instagram alone; it's no doubt one of the most popular percussion instruments around and is said to be the world’s oldest instrument. Research...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/campcounts-2022-report

CampCounts 2022 Report

CampCounts 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

Tools for Continuous Improvement

At 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/resources/covid-19-resource-center-camps

COVID-19 – Resource Center for Camps

The 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/summer-camp-therapeutic-tool-reducing-anxiety-youth

Summer Camp as a Therapeutic Tool for Reducing Anxiety in Youth

This study provides the first preliminary evidence that overnight summer camps—including those with and without specific treatments for anxiety, and youth with and without diagnosed behavioral and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/nurturing-campers-psychological-needs

Nurturing Campers’ Psychological Needs

Highly regarded child, adolescent and family therapist, and regular contributor to Camping Magazine since 1987, Bob Ditter will be speaking at the 2015 ACA National Conference. In an...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/learning-live-fire-how-camps-can-adapt-new-normal

Learning to Live with Fire: How Camps Can Adapt to the New Normal

In August of 2018, the Donnell Fire started in Tuolumne County, California — eventually destroying some 60 square miles of forests before burning out on October 1 of that year. It was a stressful...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/campcounts-2021-report

CampCounts 2021 Report

CampCounts 2021 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...