https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-counseling-twenty-first-century-connecting-disconnected

Throughout 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

The 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

The 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

I 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/bunks-are-good-brains-neuroscience-sleepaway-camp

Tina 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/building-principles-architectural-design-camps

Your 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/yingdi-emerging-camp-industry-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...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/programming-theme

The positives for a child who attends a summer camp experience are widely known. Children and youth develop independence, self-esteem, and confidence; they experience positive role model influences;...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/beautiful-boys-addiction-recovery-what-they-learned-summer-camp

Addiction, 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/now-then-summer-school-camp

The fine art of getting children outdoors and the genuine growth it facilitates has long been known. Aristotle said, “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” Shakespeare’s Duke...