https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/top-10-tips-working-todays-campers

I remember when it occurred to me that working as a camp counselor was more than just having fun with campers. I was a first-year counselor at a boys' resident sailing camp on Cape Cod in...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/letters-my-campers-counselors-guide-mentoring-youth

At the close of every season at a ceremony inside a large celebratory white tent, each counselor makes his or her way to the microphone to address an enthusiastic, if somewhat sad, throng of boys and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/developing-spiritual-competencies-during-staff-training

Every spring the challenge of planning staff training confronts camp leaders. The usual questions arise regarding how to prepare inexperienced staff and volunteers to work successfully with diverse...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/social-capital-organized-camping-its-about-community

We can't really define it, but we know it when we see it. We lament the loss of it to our friends and neighbors as we continually look for new ways to build it. What is IT? It is a sense of community...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/developmentally-appropriate-sports-skills-three-four-year-olds-0

Many campers as young as three and four years of age engage in many of the same sports activities as their older counterparts. Sports such as soccer, tennis, basketball, and hockey are routinely part...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/developmentally-appropriate-sports-skills-three-four-year-olds

Many campers as young as three and four years of age engage in many of the same sports activities as their older counterparts. Sports such as soccer, tennis, basketball, and hockey are routinely part...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/part-i-letters-my-campers-directors-guide-mentoring-youth

In the bottom drawer of my rather cavernous, and somewhat dusty, file cabinet—wedged between a pile of discarded Cape Cod souvenirs and an assortment of T-shirts—sits the treasure of a life's work...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/2008-golden-quill-golden-lens-winners

Golden Quill Award Zayanne Thompson A Convenient Truth: How Our Past Can Save the Future and Planting the Seeds to Grow an...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/planting-seeds-grow-environmental-stewardship-plan

Without a plan, we do not know where we are going. Four years ago I was sitting in a meeting with all of our camp department heads, talking about developing themes and character for the facility....

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/un-breve-est%C3%ADo

Los padres tienen un papel fundamental a la hora de mantener a los adolescentes a salvo durante el verano Por Stephen Wallace, M.S. Ed. "Y el estío no dura casi nada", escribió William...