https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-counseling-twenty-first-century-connecting-disconnected
Camp Counseling in the Twenty-First Century: Connecting the DisconnectedThroughout the year, Camping Magazine publishes articles for full-time camp professionals. Once a year, it is written specifically for you — the camp staff who are on the front lines doing...
https://www.acacamps.org/resources/camping-magazines-20-20-toolbox
Camping Magazine’s 20/20 ToolboxThe 20/20 Toolbox series provides resources to help camps realize ACA’s 20/20 Vision. We are calling this series a “toolbox” for a reason — our intent is to focus on providing hands-on, real-life, “...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/keeping-staff-training-relevant
Keeping Staff Training RelevantThe world of camp is responsible for creating timeless change through temporary communities. It is a chaotic utopia enabling healthy risks and creating lifelong friendships through positive peer...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/while-goodbye-never-enough-me-its-perfect-him
While Goodbye Is Never Enough for Me, It’s Perfect for HimI spent a lot of time in a foggy, hormone-soaked haze when I was pregnant with my first son. I was in law school at the time, and it was much more entertaining to ponder the future contents of his...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-architectural-design-camps
Building Principles: Architectural Design for CampsYour regularly scheduled program (Rick Stryker) has been interrupted by his architect friend — me. Rick askedme to write an article for Camping Magazine from an architect's perspective....
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/beautiful-boys-addiction-recovery-what-they-learned-summer-camp
Beautiful Boys: Addiction, Recovery, and What They Learned at Summer CampAddiction, recovery, and summer camp — four words that don't often appear together. Nevertheless, addictions of all kinds, perhaps especially to alcohol and other drugs, remain hugely problematic at...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/its-good-day-personal-essay
It's a Good Day: A Personal EssayThe gray rain wall dropped out of the sky. Lightning. Then thunder. We, the already-tired crew on the feature film Yellow Day, were stuck. We quickly covered the large cameras in heavy plastic and...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-camp-people-are-different-regular-people
A Place to Share: Camp People Are Different from Regular PeopleMaybe it's ingrained from the way they were brought up, raised by camp counselors and campers alike. Or maybe it's the extra exposure to sunlight dappling their shoulders. Maybe it's the camp...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/bunks-are-good-brains-neuroscience-sleepaway-camp
Bunks Are Good for Brains: The Neuroscience of Sleepaway CampTina Payne Bryson, PhD, will be delivering the opening keynote address at the 2014 ACA National Conference. Bryson is the coauthor (with Dan Siegel) of the bestselling ...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/yingdi-emerging-camp-industry-china
Yingdi: The Emerging Camp Industry in China“Faster than a speeding bullet train” might describe the growth of the concept of camps in China. A country of 1.3 billion with the second largest economy in the world, China is undergoing a drastic...