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https://www.acacamps.org/news/press-release/breakthrough-study-outlines-benefits-camp-experience

Breakthrough Study from American Camp Association Outlines the Benefits of Camp Experience

Camp provides a unique and important setting that supports mental health, while creating time away from technology, building key skills like resilience and confidence in youth and young adults. To...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/campcounts-2022-report

CampCounts 2022 Report

CampCounts 2022 is the latest iteration of ACA’s annual business and industry research survey, which aims to support camp professionals in their operational decision-making and to support ACA’s...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/should-you-offer-camp-staff-retention-bonus

Should You Offer Camp Staff a Retention Bonus?

A retention bonus is money offered to staff with the goal of giving them incentive to stick around.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/how-support-camper-mental-health

How to Support Camper Mental Health

Here are some steps you can take to support camper mental health.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/working-summer-camp-keeping-fire-alive

Working at Summer Camp: Keeping the Fire Alive

Journalism student Dan Gray shares his experience working at camp and interviews camp professionals about the staffing shortage.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/sponsored/superpowers-music-mental-health

Superpowers of Music for Mental Health

Making music can benefit our overall well-being and mental health.

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/mitigating-long-term-bereavement-risks-addressing-family-grief

Mitigating Long-Term Bereavement Risks — Addressing Family Grief

Bereavement camps for children are now commonplace around the United States (McClatchey & Wimmer, 2018). Some of these are recreational, and others are more clinically focused. Most do not...

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/ultimate-guide-staffing-your-kitchen

The Ultimate Guide to Staffing Your Kitchen

It’s not you. With a 3:1 ratio of available culinary positions to applicants, the labor shortage for kitchen staff continues to be a harsh reality. The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that the...