https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/keeping-staff-training-relevant

The world of camp is responsible for creating timeless change through temporary communities. It is a chaotic utopia enabling healthy risks and creating lifelong friendships through positive peer...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/are-we-making-progress-toward-more-people-understanding-supporting-value-camp-experience

It’s National Park Week and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/while-goodbye-never-enough-me-its-perfect-him

I spent a lot of time in a foggy, hormone-soaked haze when I was pregnant with my first son. I was in law school at the time, and it was much more entertaining to ponder the future contents of his...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/hipaa-camps-compliance-required

Introduction HIPAA is the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act, first passed by the U.S. Congress in 1996 and administered and regulated by the federal Department of Health and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/bunks-are-good-brains-neuroscience-sleepaway-camp

Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, will be delivering the opening keynote address at the 2014 ACA National Conference. Bryson is the coauthor (with Dan Siegel) of the bestselling ...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-principles-architectural-design-camps

Your regularly scheduled program (Rick Stryker) has been interrupted by his architect friend — me. Rick askedme to write an article for Camping Magazine from an architect's perspective....

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/beautiful-boys-addiction-recovery-what-they-learned-summer-camp

Addiction, recovery, and summer camp — four words that don't often appear together. Nevertheless, addictions of all kinds, perhaps especially to alcohol and other drugs, remain hugely problematic at...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/now-then-summer-school-camp

The fine art of getting children outdoors and the genuine growth it facilitates has long been known. Aristotle said, “In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.” Shakespeare’s Duke...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/value-being-camp-counselor-study-experiences-personal-growth-missouri-4%E2%80%91h-camp-counselors

Introduction Nationally, 4‑H camp programs often utilize the leadership and energy of teenage camp counselors (ages fourteen to eighteen) to plan and conduct local and area 4‑H...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/research-sudden-unexpected-death-challenge-ropes-courses

As of this August, there were 2,247 ACA-accredited camps. Of these camps 1,131 (50.3 percent) have challenge/ropes courses. A new study published in the journal, Wilderness and Environmental Medicine...