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https://www.acacamps.org/blog/cabin-counselor-risk-manager-effective-collaborator-translating-camp-job-skills-your-resume

From Cabin Counselor to Risk Manager and Effective Collaborator: Translating Camp Job Skills to Your Resume

In December, fellow Hoosier camp professional Sam Hirt (Camp Tecumseh YMCA) wrote...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/new-kind-camp-culture

A New Kind of Camp Culture

When international staff work at your summer camp, it's important to consider cultural differences such as context, social hierarchies, concepts of personal space, individualism versus collectivism...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/couch-camp-help-your-staff-better-prepare-your-programs-summer-marathon

Couch to Camp: Help Your Staff Better Prepare for Your Program’s Summer Marathon!

A pre-camp program could help your staff be better prepared for camp once summer starts.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/transforming-outdoor-organizations-journey-human-centered-hiring-belonging

Transforming Outdoor Organizations: A Journey into Human-Centered Hiring and Belonging

Human-centered hiring is includes not only external recruitment but is also deeply connected with internal work, organizational culture, and the pursuit of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI).

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/dynamic-interviewing-making-connections-across-season

Dynamic Interviewing: Making Connections Across the Season

If you’re not referring to your interview questions across the season and turning them into outcomes for your staff, let me tell you why you should.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/managing-staff-new-era-summer-camp

Managing Staff in the New Era of Summer Camp

Survivor, the long-running CBS reality show, has captivated audiences for 45 seasons — but like with so many other forms of entertainment, the COVID-19 pandemic brought the series to a halt for 17...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/do-employers-understand-summer-camp

Do Employers Understand Summer Camp?

We need to educate the workforce on why they should hire people who worked at camp.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/does-your-camp-need-therapist

Does Your Camp Need a Therapist?

Girl Scouts of Middle Tennessee partnered with a local therapy practice to provide on-site, drop-in counseling for their staff this summer.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/how-working-summer-camp-changed-trajectory-my-life

How Working at Summer Camp Changed the Trajectory of My Life

Jordyn Roark, MSW, originally applied to a summer camp job to secure summer housing — but what she also found was a life-changing experience.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/using-journals-help-your-summer-camp-staff-succeed

Using Journals to Help Your Summer Camp Staff Succeed

In support of Project Real Job, one camp shares why they started providing journals to their camp counselors in hopes it would help staff feel more organized, informed, and focused on their goals.