https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/conquering-burnout

Burnout can creep in at any time during the summer. If it does, know you are not alone. To conquer it, try to get away from the camp property on your days off; change your schedule if possible or...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/20-20-toolbox-navigating-complexity-greater-relevance

The Dig and Discovery: Can We Tell the Story? So, what is new? What is old? What is the same? Maybe everything; maybe nothing. Many times in the past, I have shared the concepts you will find in...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/conversation-joe-ehrmann

Joe Ehrmann is an accomplished man, but not just because he was an All-American football player at Syracuse University and the tenth overall draft pick in the 1973 NFL Draft — or because of his...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/platform-growth

Day camps. Resident camps. Camps for girls only. Camps for boys only. Burn-victim camps. Camps for kids with cancer. Camps for kids who want to lose weight. Faith-based camps. Activity- or sports-...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/healthy-camp-symposium-preview-present-day-adolescent-sexuality-its-implications-camp-community

Sex is a topic that elicits such strong emotions in people that it often becomes difficult to have a clear, calm, rational conversation about it. When that conversation concerns the sexual behavior...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/years-adventures-challenges-history-day-camp

Search the Web for "day camp" and the results are over 100 million hits. Although the descriptions vary greatly, the words "day camp" trigger a feeling of excitement and adventure. Many sites...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/desegregating-circle-m-day-camp-determination-succeed

It was July 2, 1964, and President Lyndon Johnson had just signed the Civil Rights Act. For us, the time had come to finally implement a plan to desegregate our white suburban day camp. We had been...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/peter-january-2011

"Changing Lives — Enriching the World": These are simple words with challenging implications. I thought of the words above, and how poignant this concept is for ACA at this time — especially as...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/more-things-change-more-they-stay-same

Wow. One hundred and fifty years of organized camping! What an amazing milestone! I don't think that it's too much of a stretch that simply having survived one hundred and fifty years is testament to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/what-about-children

Over the past five decades, I have attended and presented sessions at many conferences, seminars, and educational events offered by the Maine Youth Foundation; ACA, New England; and ACA national. I...