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https://www.acacamps.org/blog/new-data-staff-compensation-benefits-how-does-your-camp-compare
New Data on Staff, Compensation, and Benefits: How Does Your Camp Compare?Here's a snapshot of new data we collected from ACA camps about all things staff-related.
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/make-copies-or-make-difference-camp-real-job
Make Copies or Make a Difference? Camp Is a Real JobThere has never been a better time to work at camp!
https://www.acacamps.org/blog/overcome-common-barriers-making-your-camp-staff-feel-valued
Overcome Common Barriers to Making Your Camp Staff Feel ValuedAh, the annual review at work. Or, in our camp settings, the end-of-session/summer evaluation. What a wonderful time for me, as a supervisor, to finally tell a staff member how I think they generally...
https://www.acacamps.org/blog/repetition-repetition-repetition-one-reason-camp-unique-professional-experience
Repetition, Repetition, Repetition: One Reason Camp Is a Unique Professional ExperienceSummer camp jobs can teach camp staff important lessons, such as how to fail and bounce back — an important professional development skill.
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-staffing-we-can-avoid-crisis
Camp Staffing: We Can Avoid a Crisis!Over the past few years, directors all over the country have reported struggling with the fact that good staff are harder to find. They also indicate that it is much more difficult to convince...
https://www.acacamps.org/blog/what-you-dont-know-cant-help-you-value-asking-your-staff
What You Don’t Know Can’t Help You: The Value of Asking Your StaffStaff feedback is vital to running a successful summer camp. Your staff are the only ones with the answers to these questions, so if you want to know the answers . . . ask them.
https://www.acacamps.org/resources/bed-bugs-what-every-camp-needs-know
Bed Bugs - What Every Camp Needs to KnowEvery year, the American Camp Association Camp Crisis Hotline receives calls from camps that have questions about bed bugs.
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/staffing-strategies-where-have-we-been-where-are-we-headed
Staffing Strategies: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Headed?What happened throughout one’s generational history influences current views and perspectives, and camp directors carry those perceptions with them in their thoughts and actions — including those...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/how-much-wood-could-woodchuck-chuck-would-you-know-how-decipher-tag-lumber
How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Chuck? And Would You Know How to Decipher the Tag on the Lumber?A decade ago, the United States market voluntarily abandoned the long-standing wood preservative and treatment method where an arsenic and copper compound was forced into the fibers of the lumber....
https://www.acacamps.org/blog/camp-employment-internships
Camp Employment as InternshipsMost camps hire college students to work as camp staff — primarily during the summer season, but on occasion throughout the year. When the employment situation is one where the student has no other...