https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/lets-play-nicely-eight-tips-creating-safe-spaces-camp

For generations, a camp director’s focus on safety meant protecting campers from physical harm. In today’s reality that is still a necessity though insufficient. Safe space at camp has now evolved...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/foster-feeling-cross-generational-divide

As leaders interacting with the next generation we have a choice. We can spin our wheels trying to understand why they aren’t where we are, where we believe they “should be,” or we can consider the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/top-25-staffing-solutions-gathered-through-collaboration

Highlighted here is a curated collection of great ideas about how to recruit and retain staff — a direct result of the last two years of conferences and various collaborative brainstorming sessions...

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

Growing up in the 1980s and ’90s, something I looked forward to every year was attending summer camp. After spending winters mostly indoors, the perfect reprieve from school was getting the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/interrupting-biases

"Excuse me," the camp director interrupted, "I just need you to tell us how to respond when a camper or counselor uses a slur like that."  We were in the midst of debriefing a series of...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/creating-inclusive-camps-tool

This tool is designed to help you and your camp identify the work you already do to make your camp an inclusive space.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/next-summers-staff-recruitment-starts-today

Research suggests college-aged students are already thinking ahead to employment plans for next summer, so it's important to have conversations about the future with staff you'd like to return to...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/crisis-communications-tool-kit

Unfortunately, a crisis can occur at anytime and can affect any camp at any location. It is for that reason that you should prepare for a crisis before it happens.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/keep-good-learn-bad-moving-beyond-cultural-appropriation

Ryan Bean and Paul Hillmer are the coauthors of Inappropriation: The Contested Legacy of Y-Indian Guides, which examines Native cultural appropriation in camp settings.

https://www.acacamps.org/link/cities-counties-non-discrimination-ordinances-include-gender-identity