https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-no-place-bullying-behaviors
Camp Is No Place for Bullying Behaviors!Social cruelty, or bullying, has reached the level of “life and death.” With summer 2012 now here, parents are asking questions about how camp counselors and staff are being trained to keep their...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/care-feeding-adolescents-camp
On the Care and Feeding of Adolescents at CampYou are reading this article because you are working with adolescents at camp this summer and are probably a little bit worried about doing so. Given the ways in which adolescents are portrayed in...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/concussion-awareness-risk-management-more-headache
Concussion Awareness and Risk Management: More than a HeadacheThe long-term health implications from concussion among players in the National Football League (NFL) were a concern for nearly 20 years. The NFL studied, debated, and finally acknowledged the issue...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/helping-campers-challenging-backgrounds-gain-life-skills
Helping Campers from Challenging Backgrounds Gain Life SkillsEvery child is unique. Every camp is unique. So, unique approaches when responding to the needs of children in camps are essential. Summer camps were started to support children during out-of-school...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-healthy-camp-strategies-worked
Building a "Healthy Camp": Strategies That Worked!A Healthy Camp Community Three years ago, the camp community placed a capstone on a significant accomplishment by completing the largest, most comprehensive study of camp-related injuries and...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-vital-engagement
Camp as Vital EngagementMore and more children are trading true engagement for electronic connection. What are the costs and how does camp counter this trend? We live surrounded by a mobile technology that entices,...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/board-camp
On Board with CampCamp boards — what should they do? How do we train members of a camp board? And how do we recruit good board members? To find the answers, we must first start with governance. Many camps have some...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/community-kinship-within-our-camps
Community: Kinship within Our CampsLast summer, I was hanging out with a group of our oldest campers, many of whom have attended since they were four or five years old. As I’m constantly thinking of program improvement, I asked these...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-letter-camp-staff
Risk Management: A Letter to Camp StaffDear camp staff, Welcome to the world of camp! Each of us — no matter what our specific job might be — is in a position that will influence the health and wellbeing of campers. Sometimes this will...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/burgeoning-world-camp-research
A Burgeoning World of Camp ResearchRoughly thirty years ago, I packed in an urban-based career and founded a summer camp in central Ontario just north of the city of Toronto. Still, I continue to seek a fuller understanding of camp...