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https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/event/faith-based-camp-professionals-conversations

Faith-based Camp Professionals Conversations

The mission of the Faith-based Camp Professionals (previously Religiously Affiliated Camps or "RAC") is to inspire, equip, and support faith-based camp staff to nurture spiritual growth through the...

https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/online-learning/recorded-webinar/camp-culture-or-cultural-appropriation-identifying-indigenous-erasure

Camp Culture or Cultural Appropriation? Identifying Indigenous Erasure and Stereotypes to Reduce Harm

In this enlightening recorded webinar, Dr. Cheryl Ellenwood explores the damaging effects of cultural appropriation within camps and organizations. Gain insights into how systemic whiteness...

https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/online-learning/partner-online-course/bully-proof-your-camp-gan-israel

Bully Proof Your Camp - Gan Israel

So many incidences of mean behavior, (and sometimes even bullying) occur at camp. Time is less structured than at school and counselors are young and don't necessarily have the tools to notice or...

https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/online-learning/online-course/critical-things-staff-need-know-about-bullying-prevention

Critical Things Staff Need to Know about Bullying Prevention

Bullying is here to stay in summer camp and this course is designed to help you be prepared and ready to act this summer as well as between the seasons. Bullying can happen in 4 ways: physical,...

https://www.acacamps.org/about/partnerships/kindred-groups/faith-based-camps-professionals

Faith-based Camp Professionals

Nurturing spiritual growth through the camp and retreat experience.

https://www.acacamps.org/about/inclusion-belonging/land-appreciation

Land Appreciation

We gather today with appreciation for the people of indigenous tribes of the United States, whose ancestral lands are where we come together.  We say these names to acknowledge those that are...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/character-matters-running-camp-polarized-world

Character Matters: Running Camp in a Polarized World

An Interfaith Conversation on Navigating Political and Social Tensions at Camp

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/reimagining-faith-based-family-camp-model-family-togetherness

Reimagining Faith-Based Family Camp: A Model for Family Togetherness

The Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia were settled by strong and resilient families. In Nelson County many families were in these mountains long before a local government was established in 1807....

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/indigenous-appropriation-assessment-tool

Indigenous Appropriation Assessment Tool

This assessment tool — developed by Maine Summer Camps (MSC) — is intended to help camps examine their ethos with an openness to experiencing the camp’s symbols and practices from other perspectives...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/spiritual-places-children-creating-sacred-time-space-camp

Spiritual Places for Children: Creating Sacred Time and Space at Camp

Religious education directors of all branches of organized religions struggle to develop programs that truly affect the inner life of children. Many exist with the main purpose of offering a Sunday/...