https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-bonds-friendship-forged-camp
A Place to Share: The Bonds of Friendship Forged at CampFour friends from childhood reunite often and maintain their relationships through adulthood: It's the makings of countless best-selling novels. But this story is real — no fictional characters, no...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-management-oversight-your-camps-aed-program
Risk Management: Management Oversight of Your Camp's AED ProgramAs more camps purchase an automated external defibrillator (AED), the ability to establish and effectively manage a program that supports the use and maintenance of this life-saving device is...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/leadership-transition-managing-change
Leadership Transition: Managing ChangeIn the summer of 2013, we faced an exciting and critical challenge at our camp — a major leadership transition. We had the chance to replace our boys' camp director, who had been with us for seven...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/leadership-transition-what-i-learned-my-first-year-camp-director
Leadership Transition: What I Learned in My First Year as a Camp DirectorLast November I had the pleasure of sharing a long car ride with Dr. Michael Thompson, during which he gave me a fun idea. We were on the way to Houston for a presentation he was giving about the...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/alive-well-case-camp-letter
Alive and Well: The Case for the Camp LetterIn this era of tweeting and texting, the slow-moving, handwritten, paper letter is an endangered species. Unlike an electronic missive, the letter that arrives in an envelope can be touched, smelled...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/peg-moments-magic-meaning
From Peg: Moments. Magic. Meaning!It only takes a moment — to change a life, make an impact, or create significance. It is remarkable how persuasive a moment in time can be to one's life. The camp experience is full of such moments...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/peg
From Peg“We may have come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” — Martin Luther King, Jr. When I review ACA’s enrollment and business data (see page 44), I think of this quote by MLK. The...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/sport-education-innovative-practice-activities-camp
Sport Education: An Innovative Practice for Activities at CampIt is 6:00 p.m. Campers and counselors eat a tailgate cookout dinner at the Trails End Camp field. Excitement is in the air, as kickoff for the championship game will occur in just over an hour....
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/making-it-improv-comedy-camp
Making it Up: Improv Comedy and Camp"I moved to Chicago in the early 1990s and I studied improvisation there. I learned some rules that I try to apply still today. Listen, say yes, live in the moment, make sure you play with people who...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/recipe-success-planting-seeds-change
Recipe for Success: Planting the Seeds of ChangeChange is often difficult for the thousands of camps and conference centers across the country to embrace, partly because many camps are steeped in tradition, and partly because of fear. The camp...