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To you and your staff
Confidence/Assurance
- Nine out of ten camp directors across
the country say they continue to seek
accreditation for their camps because
they believe it helps them maintain a
safe, quality environment for their campers
and staff. (Responses to the question:
"Why do you continue to seek accreditation?"
1997 ACA Summer Camp Survey, American
Camping Association.)
- Crisis Hotline available 24/7 during
the summer season.
- ACA has 50 years of experience in developing
and administering a standards program.
- Industry-established.
- Developed specifically for camps.
Ongoing Training Program
- An ongoing tutorial in best practices.
- A disciplined management style that
results in professional integrity and
quality.
Risk Management Process
- A way to manage your specific risk areas,
evaluate your practices, and develop critical
thinking skills in yourself and your staff.
To your public
- A trusted sign. The ACA-Accredited Camp
sign has 50 years of parent trust behind
it.
- For a very busy and preoccupied public,
a way to presort among camp options. Accreditation
identifies those programs which offer
a solid foundation of health, safety,
and program quality.
- Assurance that you comply with up to
300 health, safety, and program quality
standards.
- Solid proof of your accountability,
credibility, and commitment. Evidence
that you care. It demonstrates you have
gone to great lengths, have been evaluated,
and have passed the test!
- It shows you continually seek expert
counsel. Experts from many fields: The
American Academy of Pediatrics, American
Red Cross, etc., continually work with
ACA to improve our camp standards program.
To your supervisor/camp
board
- A regular, independent health and safety
audit of your camp.
- As expectations and concerns rise higher
and higher, accreditation is a sign parents
have trusted for 50 years. Two out of
every three camps maintain their accreditation
based on the pressure of public image
and parent concerns. (Responses to the
question: "Why do you continue to
seek accreditation?" 1997 ACA
Summer Camp Survey, American Camping
Association.)
- A connection in Washington -- clarifying
language so camps aren't bound by regulations
not intended for them; maintaining the
international staff exchange program;
and so on.
- Nationwide publicity -- ACA's message
reached a staggering two-thirds of a billion
people in 1998! (ACA camps report a 28
percent increase in attendance since 1993.)
- Built-in staff training in best practices.
- Discounts available only to ACA camps
on credit card processing, staff recruitment
services, staff training, program materials,
education, and more.
To your funders
- A demonstration of your accountability.
You comply with up to 300 industry-established
health and safety standards.
- Verification of your commitment to the
children you serve.
- You seek continual input from national
experts. The Standards program is the
result of collaboration and review by
experts from many fields -- risk management,
child development, aquatics, and health
care.
- A process to maintain staff training
in best practices.
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