https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-severe-weather-flood-risks

Extreme weather events seem to be happening more frequently. The root cause is still the subject of heated debate. Is the severity just a cyclical change, or is global warming precipitating an...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/eight-keys-attracting-retaining-hispanic-campers

In the next five years, two out of every five new US campers five to 17 years old will be Hispanic. Because of their immigrant heritage and historical camper diversity challenges, many of them and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/myth-middle-management

There’s an interesting trend happening in the camp profession: If your program director, assistant director, or other full-time middle management employee has not recently left your organization,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/job-making-mensches-campers-integrity-honor

Clayton M. Christensen (2017), professor at the Harvard Business School and one of the foremost authorities on disruptive innovation, wrote: "Customers rarely make buying decisions around what...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/partnership-caring-parents-camps-join-together

Child Protection is a Shared Responsibility Nothing substitutes for the vigilance and care of parents in determining a safe situation for their children. While no institution--schools, churches,...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/marketing-value-camp-experience

Camp directors and camp staff know intuitively what camp provides for youth. We have sought for words and the solid research to back up what we know in our hearts happens in the magic of the...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/moving-mountains-herding-cats-closing-summer-camp

The last camper was picked up (46 minutes late, but you won the last office pool). Now your staff stands idly bewildered at what to do next. You and your staff have been flying through the...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/state-laws-regulations/state-regulations-vermont

Date Revised: 12/20/2018

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/finding-certified-waterfront-staff

It’s that time when camp directors ask themselves "where am I going to find enough certified waterfront staff, specifically boating staff?" Standard PA-20, a mandatory standard, states that camps (...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/sit-get-wont-grow-dendrites-professional-learning-strategies-engage-adult-brain

by Marcia L. Tate, Ph.D. Visualize the worst presentation or training session that you ever attended. The chances are that you were talked at by a presenter who was either boring or argumentative...