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https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/be-prepared-camp-professionals-guide-public-relations

Be PRepared: A Camp Professional’s Guide to Public Relations

When facing a crisis, an emergency, or another major happening at your camp, do you have a plan in place for communicating with the media? With campers and their families? With the public?

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/helping-camps-go-green-motivators-barriers-camp-sustainability

Helping Camps “Go Green”: The Motivators and Barriers to Camp Sustainability

Like many camp administrators around the country, Jeff Gamble wanted his camp his camp — Jefunira Camp in California — to “go green” and operate more sustainably. But he faced a challenge. The camp...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/life-autism-how-camps-can-support-campers-staff-autism-spectrum

Life and Autism: How Camps Can Support Campers and Staff on the Autism Spectrum

Anton, Maya, and James march into camp on opening day with nerves and excitement, just like any other camper or staff. They have brought the items on the camp list, their eyes are wide with...

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/article/camping-magazine/impetigo-what-does-it-look-what-should-you-do

Impetigo: What Does It Look Like, and What Should You Do?

John presented to the camp health center begrudgingly, after his counselor requested he get a blister on his heel looked at by one of the nurses. The nurse at health check happened to be a new...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/leave-no-trace-education-inclusion-approaches-strengthen-your-camp-program

Leave No Trace: Education and Inclusion Approaches to Strengthen Your Camp Program

Leave No Trace, the best-known stewardship education program on US public lands, helps to make people a conservation solution through easy, actionable practices that reduce negative impacts.

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/best-practices-inclusive-camping-roundtable-discussion-programming

Best Practices in Inclusive Camping: A Roundtable Discussion on Programming

Learn how to have an inclusive summer camp by providing physical inclusion, functional inclusion, and social inclusion.

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/summer-camp-moving-along-continuum-inclusion

Summer Camp: Moving along the Continuum of Inclusion

According to the National Center for Education Statistics (2016), 8.5 percent of school-aged children are receiving specialized education services, not including those students with specific learning...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-el-tesoro-de-la-vida-camp-experience-bereaved-children

Camp El Tesoro de la Vida: A Camp Experience for Bereaved Children

The death of a loved one is a reality that each of us must face at some point. The experience of a loss invokes a myriad of feelings for adults and children alike. Some will maintain the belief that...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/green-camp-needs-assessment

Green Camp Needs Assessment

When it comes to setting the standard for green buildings, the US Green Building Council (USGBC) is leading the way through its promotion of sustainability in the design, construction, and operations...