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https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/orienting-your-camp-nurse-tips-success

Orienting Your Camp Nurse: Tips for Success

Nurses newly hired for your camp’s health center need orientation. What they need to know differs from the orientation needed by general staff. Providing it is critical to a smoothly functioning...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/why-we-choose-be-aca-accredited-what-it-takes

Why We Choose to Be ACA-accredited and What It Takes

The directors and staff of Geneva Glen Camp (Indian Hills, Colorado), have always approached the triennial ACA visit anticipating a very upbeat and affirming experience! Our...

https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/online-learning/recorded-webinar/power-people-making-staff-training-work-your-staff

Power to the People: Making Staff Training Work for Your Staff

It's time to start re-thinking the traditional ways in which we view staff training. This session will be full of new and innovative ideas to change the dynamic (and timing) of your staff training....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/aca-accreditation-revised-standards-what-does-it-mean-your-camp

ACA Accreditation and the Revised Standards: What Does It Mean for Your Camp?

No Visit in 2019? If your camp is not scheduled for an on-site accreditation visit in 2019, you need to: Sign the 2019 Annual Statement of Compliance prior to the start of...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/begin-end-mind

Begin with the End in Mind

The first thing summer camp counselors should do going into camp season is decide how they want campers to remember them once the season ends.

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/connecting-campers-age-screens-social-media-fortnite

Connecting with Campers in the Age of Screens, Social Media, and Fortnite

Connecting with campers can be difficult for summer camp counselors now that campers have more screen time than ever.

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/fumble-recovery-transforming-string-failures-robust-success

Fumble and Recovery: Transforming a String of Failures into Robust Success

This article shows summer camp counselors how to turn past and present failures into future successes.

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/interrupting-isms-what-do-if-campers-say-or-do-something-ist

Interrupting Isms: What to Do if Campers Say or Do Something "-Ist"

This resource offers advice to summer camp counselors who need to deal with campers saying something "-ist."

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

Helping the 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/camping-magazine/sorry-not-sorry

Sorry, Not Sorry

We've all been there. We're trying to help or referee some situation with kids, we're told a few things or parts of the story, and we think we know what happened, so we turn to the kid who we think...