https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/youth-objects-or-partners-advancing-opportunities-camper-leadership-decision-making

Disenfranchised by Design? Nearly 40 percent of ten- to eighteen-year-olds report insufficient levels of involvement in camp (ACA 2006). That statistic surprised most camp...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/noticing-deficit-disorder-how-camp-can-restore-art-seeing-world

We are in the midst of an epidemic of visual impairment no medical doctor can fix — but which camps might cure. Back in the `60s, artist, researcher, and psychologist Rudolf Arnheim (1969) lamented...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/bullying-prevention-camps-take-stand

Bullying prevention is one of five hot topics on the minds of camp staff. To help address this issue,the American Camp Association, in collaboration with Dr. Joel Haber, is pleased to...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/understanding-bullying-within-camp-setting-tips-parents

What is Bullying? Bullying is aggressive behavior by a child or a group of children who take advantage of the power they have to hurt or intimidate others. Bullying can take many forms:...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/boys-camp-developing-skills-life-success

I spent a few months earlier this year visiting camps throughout New England. One of my stops was Camp Watitoh, a sleepaway camp in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts, where a college classmate...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/impact-camp-experiences-social-skills-happiness

With depression, anxiety, and addiction rates high among adolescents (Keyes, 2006), and many youth engaged in relational aggression and other damaging social practices like bullying, there is clearly...

https://www.acacamps.org/download/criminal-background-checks-background-information-guidance-camps

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/defining-bullying-national-bullying-awareness-month

While October is National Bullying Awareness Month, what can we do as a camp community to bring awareness year round? 

https://www.acacamps.org/book/aca-accreditation-process-guide

A field-friendly, binder-format guide for camps featuring ACA's 2019 camp programs and services accreditation standards and implementation guidelines. To the public, ACA accreditation means that ACA...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/reclaiming-conversation-interview-sherry-turkle

Sherry Turkle, PhD, is the Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at MIT; and the founder and current...