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https://www.acacamps.org/blog/lawfully-recruiting-hiring-best-candidates

Lawfully Recruiting and Hiring the Best Candidates

These 10 tips can help you throughout the staff hiring process.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/straight-horses-mouth-what-university-students-have-say-about-working-camp

Straight from the Horse's Mouth: What University Students Have to Say about Working at Camp

This blog offers tips from three university students about how to recruit college students as camp staff.

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/enhancing-inclusion-campers-sensory-processing-concerns-through-camp-counselor-training

Enhancing Inclusion for Campers with Sensory-Processing Concerns through Camp Counselor Training

Summer camps provide children an opportunity for goal achievement, a sense of community, and development of self-concept. Toward that end, goal-directed camp activities revolve around teamwork, as...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/new-normal-rethinking-staffing-communications

The New Normal: Rethinking Staffing Communications

These tips can help you increase your job post visibility and attract more prospective staff candidates.

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/informed-staffing-through-form-follows-function-program-assessment

Informed Staffing through "Form Follows Function" Program Assessment

In architecture, the phrase “form follows function” means that a building’s purpose should be the starting point for its design. Similarly, the purpose of camp staff — why you have them and what...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/key-takeaways-pulse-survey-summer-2022-trends-issues

Key Takeaways from Pulse Survey — Summer 2022 Trends and Issues

The survey asked questions about enrollment and campers, camp staff, and budget and operations.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/aca-redwoods-group-working-together-bring-safety-training-camps

ACA and Redwoods Group Working Together to Bring Safety Training to Camps

The American Camp Association (ACA) is excited to announce a collaboration with The Redwoods Group to further the availability of camp safety training courses.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/seasonal-recruitment-timing-everything

With Seasonal Recruitment, Timing Is Everything

When is the optimal time to recruit for staffers who are not familiar with your camp, or maybe even with the camping industry in general?

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/sorry-not-sorry

Sorry, Not Sorry

We've all been there. We're trying to help or referee some situation with kids, we're told a few things or parts of the story, and we think we know what happened, so we turn to the kid who we think...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-supervising-young-supervisor

Risk Management: Supervising the Young Supervisor

Because frontline staff, such as cabin counselors or activity leaders, typically spend the most time directly with campers, most accidents involving campers occur under their care. Therefore, it is...