https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/success-horses-success-life
Success With Horses = Success With LifeW.L. Lorimer, founder of Lorimer Family Camps, included the cavalry style of horsemanship along with the athletics, aquatics, and outdoor skills that were the basics for all camps in the early 1900s...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/single-gender-camps-hiring-employees-gender-appropriate-hiring-criterion
Single-Gender Camps and Hiring Employees: Is Gender an Appropriate Hiring Criterion?The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently dealt with a gender discrimination lawsuit involving a woman's shelter that rejected an applicant for employment solely because he was male. The federal...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/campline/camps-title-iii-americans-disabilities-act
Camps and Title III of the Americans With Disabilities ActLaws and regulations create a variety of risks for camp directors to manage. The Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) presents an interesting risk management challenge. The Act was passed in 1990 to...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-all-special-place-special-people
Camp for All: A Special Place for Special People"Dear Mom and Dad, I’m having a great time at camp," writes twelve-year-old Michael. "Today, I rode a horse for the first time. I thought it would be scary, but it was loads of fun. Tonight I’m going...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/bouncing-back-moving-forward-transactional-models-risk-resiliency
Bouncing Back by Moving Forward: Transactional Models of Risk and ResiliencyBig Questions If someone told you that you had a "retrospective, unidirectional bias" and had contracted the "availability heuristic," you might think you need to visit a doctor right away....
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/culture-competency-risk-management-where-will-three-meet
Culture, Competency, and Risk Management: Where Will the Three Meet?Cultural considerations in camp programming may not be in the forefront of individual or organizational thinking. With all the preparation and planning that we do, is it really necessary to add yet...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/crucial-conversations-can-make-or-break-camp
Crucial Conversations Can Make or Break a CampEvery camp director has been there. In fact, if you’re like most camp leaders, you’re there right now. If asked, you could immediately name two or three people with whom you should have a crucial...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/do-i-do-circle-parenting-socialization
Do As I Do: The Circle of Parenting and SocializationBig Questions Perhaps no question weighs more heavily on the minds of parents, teachers, and camp staff than "Will this child do what I ask?" Sadly, there is no magic formula for obedience. So,...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/evaluating-good-season
Evaluating a Good SeasonSeveral months after the ending of the 2002 camp season, a concerned camp director contacted me. As the director of a small nonprofit camp, he had received a bit of critical feedback from the board...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/making-best-better
Making the Best BetterNot too many job descriptions include expectations like, “Be able to rise early, go to bed late, and remain enthusiastic all day long.” “Work well with many different types of people.” “Share your...