https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/trenches

Dear Bob,   We have a high elements ropes course at camp that became the scene of some harassment last summer. As you probably know, it is not so unusual for some campers to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/20-20-toolbox-tomorrows-camps-todays-realities

The camp experience is a part of America's heritage and culture. Today, 10 million children and youth go to camp annually, yet, the American Camp Association (ACA) only directly impacts 5 million of...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/partnering-schools-understanding-camp-school-connection

In 2006, US students ranked twenty-first out of thirty in science literacy and twenty-fifth out of thirty in math literacy among developed countries. A recent announcement by the Obama administration...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/show-me-money-views-acas-compensation-benefits-report-2010

Camp professionals often look to the American Camp Association (ACA) for salary and compensation information. In order to help association members stay current with salary and compensation trends,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/peg-november-2010

Message discipline is difficult. Yet, in a complex association such as ACA, the demand for clarity is paramount. For an organization to grow, it must learn how to walk that thin line between chaos...

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

When I mention to people that I'm a Girl Scout, they give me the "once-over." You know, moving their eyes up and down my body, then adding; "Aren't you a little old to be a Girl Scout?" I'm thirty-...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/everybody-loves-somebody-sometime

"My sometime is now," the tune continues. In 1964, crooner Dean Martin knocked the Beatles' "Hard Day's Night" from their number one pop chart perch with that bit of wisdom. Almost fifty years later...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/environmental-impairment-risk

Our world is fragile and so are we! Could we have a starker reminder of this than the Deepwater Horizon oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year? There are many lessons which...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/succession-planning-raising-next-generation-leaders

What will this industry look like in twenty years? That depends on us. That's right; don't look over your shoulder to see who else is going to step up. As leaders of youth, we know that we shape the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/culture-clash-consequences-camps

"Emily" is a six-year-old camper in the "Jellyfish" group at an East Coast day camp. She is a new camper this year, coming into a group where about 70 percent of the campers are returning. She comes...