https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/americans-disabilities-act-revisited

I. Introduction  On the 25th Anniversary of the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA or the Act), we have been asked to refresh our latest article for The CampLine on...

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...