https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/leading-tomorrow-i-believe-accreditation

I believe in accreditation. Fifteen years ago, I helped manage the accreditation visit at my camp. It was my first time going through the process, but for my camp, the process was one in which...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/case-studies-working-challenging-camper-behavior

The following case study is based on a real-life situation at a camp for girls in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. I have altered the names of the specific campers and some identifying information to protect...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/how-culture-sensitive-are-your-camp-health-services

Campers and staff come from a variety of backgrounds. An urban-savvy camper becomes the bunkmate to a youth raised on a rural farm; two girls — one from a small mountain village and the other from a...

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

Camp director Erec Hillis encourages camp professionals to broadly communicate the fact that “camp creates advantage for kids.” He asserts that this “is a winning argument that camp directors must...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-wisdom-overhead

American poet and diplomat James Russell Lowell is quoted as saying, “Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/success-queen-neptuna

Watch out, world! Make way for Queen Neptuna! This is a thought I have kept with me since I was eight years old. I was at summer camp — my first time away from home — in completely...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/once-girl-scout-always-girl-scout

“When one thinks of the 31st of October,” Juliette Low wrote in 1923, “one associates the day with Halloween when imps and witches fly about…On that night, I made my appearance in the world. Little...

https://www.acacamps.org/argumento-favor-de-los-campamentos

American Camp Association® (ACA) cree que la experiencia organizada de campamento es un componente fundamental en el desarrollo y la educación del niño completo. ACA apoya oportunidades educativas...

https://www.acacamps.org/destinaci%C3%B3n-campamento

Un recurso completo para las familias que ofrece consejo profesional de expertos en campamentos sobre la selección de campamento, el momento preciso, el desarrollo infantil y juvenil, y asuntos...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/parents/why-cant-school-be-more-camp

Yesterday, my fourth grade son came home from school downcast. It’s his third week at a new school, and I had encouraged him to find a friend or two to invite over to swim. He had asked two boys for...