https://www.acacamps.org/blog/coming-home-seeing-old-friends-national-conference

The 2018 American Camp Association National Conference is here! Today, I’m delighted to join over 1,400 other camp professionals and dear friends for a...

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

Dear Bob, As owners and operators of a coed resident camp we have noticed a disturbing trend among both our campers and counselors. We are seeing an increase in the number of...

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https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-health-center-log-rich-source-risk-management-data

As camp professionals become more effective risk managers, the need to periodically review camper and staff injury and illness events is a given. One of the best sources of this information is a...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/presidential-fellows-program-leadership-development-camp-twin-lakes

The age-old question of “What do you do the rest of the year?” is inevitable. Every camp director we know has heard it, often many times. Summer is an intense and busy time, and we have worked hard...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/good-reminder

Spring is a time of renewal and hope, and nowhere is this hopefulness more evident than in our chosen profession. As camp professionals, we catalog time by the changing of the seasons. Summer speaks...

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

James, an adorably awkward first-summer camper, sits on a bench outside Campcraft preparing to take his knife safety test. You tell him to begin, and — biting his lip in concentration — he flips open...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/hunters-farmers-why-adhders-can-thrive-summer-camp

In examining the etiology behind the widely diagnosed Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), one school of thought, championed by Thom Hartmann, author of the Complete Guide to ADHD...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/new-kids-tent-changing-profile-todays-camper

"Jason!" shouts Lamont, "Give me back my iPod® and get off of my bed!" Lamont gives Jason a little shove, and soon their counselor is trying to break up a shouting match. Both boys are eight years...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/meet-hakeem-oluseyi

If necessity is the mother of invention, then resilience is the mother of reinvention. Hakeem Oluseyi, PhD, world-renowned cosmologist, science educator, and humanitarian, is well acquainted with...