Infestation

Every year, some of the most common calls received on the ACA Camp Crisis Hotline pertain to communicable diseases and insect infestations. The potential for the spread of...

Health screening, a practice typical to most camps' opening day process, has undergone an evolution. Granted, some changes were kick-started by our COVID-19 experience but, like...

As staffers, parents and kids prepare for another memorable summer at camp, there is one important detail that must not escape our attention - doing everything possible to ensure that children are protected from the black-legged ticks that transmit Lyme and other tick-borne diseases.

It’s 6:27 a.m. on a sunny Tuesday morning. There you are, comfortably seated at your desk, ready for another great day, when you are called for assistance by a counselor to the...

Every year, one of the most common calls to the American Camp Association Camp Crisis Hotline comes from camps who have questions about lice.

Every year, the American Camp Association Camp Crisis Hotline receives calls from camps that have questions about bed bugs.