https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/event/2025-aca-new-england-camp-conference

The New England Camp Conference brings over 800 attendees from 250+ camps around New England together for three days of learning and networking with dynamic speakers, established industry experts,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/best-practices-inclusive-camping-roundtable-discussion-programming

Learn how to have an inclusive summer camp by providing physical inclusion, functional inclusion, and social inclusion.

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/personal-lessons-being-culturally-responsive

An Interview with Sonya Whitaker, EdD Sonya Whitaker, EdD, knows education inside and out. She’s held jobs as a classroom teacher, assistant principal, principal, central office...

https://www.acacamps.org/research/camp-research

The ACA Research Team supports and facilitates rigorous research in order to expand the value and visibility of the summer camp experience and provide research-informed resources for camps. Explore...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/how-donating-salvation-army-red-kettle-helps-send-kids-camp

A portion of funds gathered through Salvation Army red kettle donations during the winter go toward sending kids to camp.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/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/about/history

Summer camp has been around over 160 years. Learn more about history of ACA and the summer camp experience.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/sponsored/zoom-rooms-zen-dens-redesigning-camp-space-mental-health

As we shared recently, a lot of camps are redesigning...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/evaluating-bereavement-camps

Spending time in nature is often therapeutic and provides many benefits, such as improving cognitive functioning (Berman, Jonides, & Kaplan, 2008) and improving memory (Berto, 2005). Spending...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camper-allyship

You thought about working at camp, applied, got hired, and now you’re looking forward to creating positive relationships with campers all summer. We all know (and research shows) that positive youth-...