https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/nitty-gritty-camp-risk-committee

“Let’s form a committee!” is the frequent battle cry of camp leaders facing a complex problem for which there are no obvious, immediate, or cheap solutions. When more than one brain is needed to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/challenge-course-zip-line-safety

Recently, serious accidents and fatalities in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Utah, and other states have prompted government in these and several other states to review and/or discuss how...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/federal-public-policy-call-action-updates

Education Reform  On December 10, 2015, President Barack Obama signed into law the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), a bipartisan bill to revise and replace No Child Left Behind and overhaul...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/mentorship

A guest blog by Sterling Nell Leija When I was a kid, I remember wanting to go to summer camp.  Like many of your campers, I counted down the days!  But I couldn’t honestly tell...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/measure-youth-outcomes-online-yob-20

The basic format of the Youth Outcomes Battery (YOB-Basic) is available online. These measures assess how much youth (10-17 years old) increased on 11 youth development outcomes, allow you to collect...

https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/online-learning/recorded-webinar/preparing-risks-summer

Being prepared for risks a camp may face during the summer is an important component of a good risk management strategy. Understanding historical trends and emerging issues can help with the...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/national-mentoring-month-guest-blog

In many ways summer camp is synonymous with mentoring. It’s what counselors do. But what I have learned in my young career is that it doesn’t stop there. I was a 17-year-old counselor at North Star...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/collective-impact

A young woman walks down the trail to the next station. There, in front of her, is a wall towering over her. The wall is ten feet tall and six feet wide, and as she and her group of peers walk up to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/fostering-creativity-camp-life

An Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman Scott Barry Kaufman, PhD, is scientific director of the Imagination Institute in the Positive Psychology Center at the University of...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/hallowed-ground

An Interview with Camp Southern Ground President Rob Parker When GRAMMY Award-winning musician Zac Brown began the journey of realizing his vision to build Camp Southern Ground, a nonprofit camp,...