https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/20-20-toolbox-our-shared-passion

As camp professionals, we are not alone in our passion for the positive impact camp can have. There are many individuals and organizations who share, value, and understand the power of the camp...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/business-camp-starting-new-camp

“It is critical to treat camp like a business or it will absolutely fail, and to know in your head and heart that if you treat camp only as a business it will also fail absolutely; so always...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camper-outcomes-increase-regardless-session-length-beyond-anecdotal-evidence-increased-competence

Session length may not be as vital to the accomplishment of developmental outcomes as directors are anecdotally sharing. Interestingly, no empirical support exists for the conventional wisdom that...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/workers-compensation-facts

Workers compensation laws exist in all 50 states and in the District of Columbia. Each state’s law is different. Do you understand your camp employer’s obligations as well as yours? This is an...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/implementing-special-events-programs-camp

While a summer at camp is, in and of itself, a special event, sometimes it’s important to shake up the daily routine to revitalize both campers and staff, especially a few weeks into the summer....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-window-world

They were the first accents I ever heard that were different than mine. Australian, Dutch, English, Scottish, and heaps of others flew through the wooded, cabin-filled area at my Riverhead, New York...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/sos-youth-risk-seven-survival-skills-summer-camp

Our Nation is at risk. At least that was the opening salvo of an April 1983 report from the National Commission on Excellence in Education. The document, which covered everything from prosperity...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/preparing-kids-real-real-world

There's a summer camp where kids do whatever they want, with whomever they want, all day long, as long as they aren't physically endangering anyone or putting anyone down. There are no bed times....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/leading-tomorrow-september

The fall season, for our association, marks a time similar to the first days of staff training. It is a time of bonding when veteran camp leaders are excited to share their stories of the season and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/education-global-citizenship-role-summer-camp

What is global citizenship and why promote another seemingly bookish concept into a summer camp program? There are good reasons: positive youth development, influx of multicultural young people...