https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/aca-standards-crisis-planning

ACA accreditation standards have always provided guidance in identifying steps critical to crisis planning. The events of 9/11 may have generated new concerns that need to be added to camps’ plans...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/staying-camp-out-courthouse

The primary purpose of a risk management plan is not the avoidance of legal liability. Its purpose is the maintenance of a quality program; that is, one which deals reasonably and fairly with its...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/research-reveals-outdoor-industrys-safety-practices-concerns

According to the results of a recent survey of outdoor adventure program directors and risk managers, more outdoor education and adventure-based recreation programs are concerned about transportation...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/bats-camp

Most camps view bats in their environment as beneficial — eating large numbers of mosquitos and often providing important lessons for campers on relationships in the natural world. However, within...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/ethics-twenty-first-century

A counselor asked for a private meeting with the camp director. She placed a plastic bag on the table and told the director that it fell out of a camper’s backpack. The bag contained photographs of...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/if-only-they-had-known-seven-timely-reminders-staff-training

Standards numbers updated to match 2012 standards Last-minute registrations and staff agreements are coming in. Food and T-shirts have been ordered. Staff manual revisions are nearly...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/aeds-what-are-they-do-they-belong-camp

What are AEDs? AED is the acronym used for an Automated External Defibrillator. This device is about the size of a standard laptop computer, and is used to help save lives of victims of cardiac...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/avoiding-illegal-discrimination-hiring

  Editor's note: The following information is excerpted from Taking the High Road, A Guide to Effective and Legal Employment Practices for Nonprofits, published by the Nonprofit Risk...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/new-threat-mosquito-borne-illness

Date: Summer 1999 Location: East Coast Situation: Campers, bitten by mosquitoes, develop malaria How should camps respond? Here’s some background. There are 150-200 species of mosquitoes in the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/risk-management-negligent-hiring-under-new-federal-law

Since October 9, 1998, when the Volunteers for Children Act, was signed into law by President Clinton as Public Law 105-251 and amended the National Child Protection Act of 1993, if a volunteer or...