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LGBTQ Community Resourceshttps://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/reimagining-camp-through-pro-inclusional-lens
Reimagining Camp through a Pro-Inclusional LensAll of the inclusion, diversity, social justice, and equity work that many are doing in the field right now — all of it is to get us on level ground. To help us to understand that...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/training-social-justice-camp-staff
Training for Social Justice with Camp StaffHow do camps incorporate social justice into staff training programs? Five passionate, experienced, and insightful camp leaders discuss their professional and personal development as social justice...
https://www.acacamps.org/blog/campwire-episode-37-camp-staff-recruiting-finding-diverse-organizations-campus
CampWire Episode 37: Camp Staff Recruiting - Finding Diverse Organizations on CampusThis podcast talks about how to find organizations for BIPOC students, why it is important to hire diverse staff members for summer camp, and how diversity can impact the culture of your camp.
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/everything-has-changed-abuse-prevention-camp-age-metoo
Everything Has Changed: Abuse Prevention at Camp in the Age of #MeTooIn December of 2018, CBS News broadcast a report detailing more than 500 allegations of child sexual abuse at summer camps over a period of more than 50 years (CBS News, 2018). The numbers are...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/preventing-peer-peer-abuse-supervision-line-defense
Preventing Peer-to-Peer Abuse: Supervision as a Line of DefenseIt was 1995. TLC, Alanis Morissette, and Boyz II Men were riding high in the music charts. Apollo 13 and the original Toy Story were in the movie theaters. Michael Jordan made his...
https://www.acacamps.org/book/multiculturalism-camps-youth-programs-how-us-them-became-just-us
Multiculturalism in Camps and Youth Programs: How Us and Them Became Just UsCulture affects our politics, relationships, how we spend and save our money, our leisure pursuits, what we eat and drink, our expectations for children, and how we approach work in our lives, to...
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Outdoor Afrohttps://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/words-live-interview-jamal-stroud
Words to Live By: An Interview with Jamal StroudThirty-year-old African American Jamal Stroud exudes positivity and light. Not necessarily an intuitive state of being for someone who started life in New York City’s foster care system. Like many...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camper-inclusion-day-camps-making-it-work-campers-staff
Camper Inclusion at Day Camps: Making It Work for Campers and Staff". . We started him at a camp that didn’t like that he didn’t fit into their ‘normal’ box. They didn’t have the flexibility, tools, or understanding that you and your staff have. They didn’t...