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https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/new-geographic-demographic-day-camps-hiring-staff-outside-your-area-code

The New Geographic Demographic for Day Camps: Hiring Staff Outside Your Area Code

If you’re responsible for hiring staff to work at day camp, you may be summing up today’s to-do list in one short phrase: Find more people! Far from being the second choice for those who don’t...

https://www.acacamps.org/jobs/find-staff/year-round-camp-staff

Find Year-Round Camp Staff

Year-Round Jobs @ Camp is a listing of year-round job openings at camps e-mailed to job seekers twice a month.

https://www.acacamps.org/research/special-projects/camp-school-partnership-demonstration-project

2022–2024 Camp-School Partnership Demonstration Project

The Camp-School Partnership Demonstration Project is a collaboration between the National Summer Learning Association (NSLA) and the American Camp Association (ACA), which are 501(c)(3) national...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/summer-learning-resources

Summer Learning Resources

Camps and other youth development programs provide the opportunity to reduce summer learning loss in an expanded learning environment where children are engaged experientially and have an opportunity...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/bodies-beliefs-bias-why-respect-human-rights-unnatural

On Bodies, Beliefs, and Bias: Why Respect for Human Rights Is Unnatural

My mother crochets. Over tea in restaurants. In line at the airport. At the movies. If you can breathe there, my mom can crochet there. She crochets for friends, family, and perfect strangers....

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/radon-contamination-regulations-applicable-camps

Radon Contamination - Regulations Applicable to Camps

Radon is the number one cause of lung cancer among nonsmokers and an important national public health issue.  If your camp has buildings, you should be familiar with the issues related to radon...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/camp-crisis-hotline

Camp Crisis Hotline

The Hotline serves as a resource for camps in crisis and provides callers the opportunity to talk through their crisis with a trained third-party.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/campwire-episode-58-all-about-camp-school-partnerships

CampWire Episode 58: All About Camp-School Partnerships

Camps can be powerful community partners in the education of our children. A camp-school partnership can be exciting, innovative, and satisfying, but they also take insight, creativity, and...

https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/event/empowering-staff-trauma-sensitive-strategies-responding-reports

Empowering Staff with Trauma-Sensitive Strategies for Responding to Reports

The manner in which staff reacts to a camper’s first telling of an incident of sexual misconduct can make all the difference in the experience of the camper, as well as the effective resolution of...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/whatever-weather

Whatever the Weather

One of my fondest camp memories is of sitting in a large platform tent with my other new friends during a torrential downpour. Like most suburban kids I knew, I had long been schooled to come in...