https://www.acacamps.org/resources/new-director-orientation-course-facilitator-resources

Here are some additional resources for NDO Facilitators. Some of these resources were not included in the NDO Curriculum PDF becasue they are left as original templates so facilitators can download...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/new-director-orientation-facilitator-information

Information for NDO Facilitators  Thank you for your interest in ACA's New Director Orientation (NDO) course!  The New Director Orientation is a seven-hour course (7 CECs) for...

https://www.acacamps.org/download/retaining-developing-high-potential-talent-national-assembly

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/place-share-bonds-friendship-forged-camp

Four friends from childhood reunite often and maintain their relationships through adulthood: It's the makings of countless best-selling novels. But this story is real — no fictional characters, no...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/risk-management-management-oversight-your-camps-aed-program

As more camps purchase an automated external defibrillator (AED), the ability to establish and effectively manage a program that supports the use and maintenance of this life-saving device is...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/never-alone-technological-reality-generation-y

“All men’s miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.” Blaise Pascal That quote always seems to enter my sphere of consciousness prior to camp. When I arrive at camp I...

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/delivering-happiness-five-things-camps-can-learn-zappos

Tony Hsieh's book, Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, struck a cord with millions of people. The best-selling book by the CEO of Zappos.com, Inc. about the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/fighting-free-play

It seems a tug-of-war is going on in Canada. On one side are those who, in the name of safety and reducing liability, want to mandate the risk right out of childhood activities and free play time. On...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/pedagogically-speaking-part-1-how-schools-talk-about-what-camps-do

Clinging to the position that camp is different and unique will isolate us unless we can speak intelligently about how camp is an essential complement to what young people do for the other ten or 11...