https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/years-adventures-challenges-history-day-camp

Search the Web for "day camp" and the results are over 100 million hits. Although the descriptions vary greatly, the words "day camp" trigger a feeling of excitement and adventure. Many sites...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/desegregating-circle-m-day-camp-determination-succeed

It was July 2, 1964, and President Lyndon Johnson had just signed the Civil Rights Act. For us, the time had come to finally implement a plan to desegregate our white suburban day camp. We had been...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/peter-january-2011

"Changing Lives — Enriching the World": These are simple words with challenging implications. I thought of the words above, and how poignant this concept is for ACA at this time — especially as...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/more-things-change-more-they-stay-same

Wow. One hundred and fifty years of organized camping! What an amazing milestone! I don't think that it's too much of a stretch that simply having survived one hundred and fifty years is testament to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/what-about-children

Over the past five decades, I have attended and presented sessions at many conferences, seminars, and educational events offered by the Maine Youth Foundation; ACA, New England; and ACA national. I...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/praise-self-esteem

Best selling author Ashley Merryman — who has also been tutoring in inner-city Los Angeles for eleven years — recently spoke with ACA about youth development findings in her award-winning book, ...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/20-20-toolbox-rewards-reinventing-wheel

The year 2020 seems so distant, and yet our goal as a collection of camp professionals is to serve 20 million campers by that year. So how do we get there? I have long been a proponent that programs...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/looking-back-education-formal-sense

Doing good work with and for youth has been a hallmark of the camp experience since its inception. Very quickly, there was recognition that the place and space of camp was also "good" for the staff...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/working-toward-healthier-camp-five-strategies-camp-administrators-reconsider-now

The Healthy Camp Study has been completed. As a result, the camp community now has an initial understanding of camp injury/illness events founded on evidence. This understanding is already making an...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/cyberbullying-protection-plan

"Kick a Ginger Day." Fair to say, the majority of adults reading this article have no idea what this means. A bunch of junior-high-aged kids in Calabasas, California, did, however. On November 20,...