https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/intentional-youth-development

Camp directors often design the summer camp experience with intended camper outcomes in mind. Campers often experience positive changes as a result of attending summer camp. The research...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp%E2%80%93parent-partnerships-parent%E2%80%93camp-loyalty

Camp–parent partnerships reach beyond customer satisfaction; they are at the core of parent–camp loyalty. In most Hispanic communities, the camp-parent partnership becomes a critical alliance that...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/seven-absolutes-camp-counseling

Those who have tracked my work over the years might be asking what in the world I would be doing making a list of seven absolute anythings when it comes to working with youth. I have always...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/rites-passage-camp-pays-youth-development-happiness-health-safety

For years sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists have mourned the loss of traditions marking important childhood "rites of passage." In earlier American culture, movement toward adulthood...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/m%C3%A1s-protecci%C3%B3n-los-padres-reciben-mensajes-contradictorios-sobre-el-cuidado-y-la-educaci%C3%B3n-de-los

Los padres reciben mensajes contradictorios sobre el cuidado y la educación de los adolescentes Últimamente se ha criticado mucho a los llamados "padres hiperprotectores" en los medios de...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/sanctuary-storm-hurricane-evacuees-find-comfort-camp

We will call him, Mr. Joe. An eighty-one-year-old former resident of New Orleans, Mr. Joe tells Canon Walter Friese, interim director of Hardnter Camp and Conference Center in Pollock, Louisiana,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/developing-excellence-camp-leadership-four-requirements

A 2004 American Camp Association poll of its members found that the one area camp administrators wanted more information on was personal leadership development. It is evident that there is a quest in...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/aeds-camp-yes-or-no

A colleague recently asked whether her camp should have an AED (automated external defibrillator) on site. Just three or four years ago, I would have responded to that question with a resounding "No...

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...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/ada-title-iii-access-recreation-programs-people-disabilities-what-does-it-mean-me-update

©2006 Catherine Hansen-Stamp and Charles R. Gregg* A teen who is deaf and her parents e-mail an application, seeking admission into a summer adventure camp. There are only a few weeks before the...