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- You will be visited by up to two Standards
Visitors. Visitors are volunteers. They
have backgrounds in camp administration
and have completed 21 hours of training.
Additionally, they have completed an "apprenticeship"
with an experienced visitor.
- Your local section will schedule your
visit at a convenient time for the camp
and the visitors on a typical program
day (not the opening or closing day of
a camp session).
- Some camps schedule a written documentation
review with
one of your visitors. Many camps going
through accreditation for the first time
have benefited from the written documentation
review.
- Expect that the visit will take the
entire day.
- The visit usually begins with a tour
of your camp facilities and programs.
Visitors will observe living areas including
sleeping accommodations for campers, groups,
and staff; food preparation and dining
areas; aquatic activity areas; health
care areas; garbage and rubbish disposal
areas; maintenance and fuel storage areas;
and activity areas.
- During the observation, visitors should
have the opportunity to interview staff
and campers and observe program activities
in action.
- After the tour, the visitors will meet
with the camp director to determine compliance
with each standard that applies to the
camp.
- Written documentation required by the
standards may be evaluated prior to the
on-site visit or may be observed by the
visitors at this time.
- The visitors will score the standards
based on compliance as observed at the
time of the visit.
- When your visit is complete, the visitors
will mail the score form directly to the
ACA national office for electronic scoring.
- Camps visited in the summer will be
notified of the results of the visit no
later than November 10. Camps visited
at other times of the year will be notified
between six and eight weeks following
the receipt of the score form at the national
office.
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