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https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/peter-january-2011
From Peter - January 2011"Changing Lives — Enriching the World": These are simple words with challenging implications. I thought of the words above, and how poignant this concept is for ACA at this time — especially as...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/more-things-change-more-they-stay-same
The More Things Change . . . The More They Stay the SameWow. One hundred and fifty years of organized camping! What an amazing milestone! I don't think that it's too much of a stretch that simply having survived one hundred and fifty years is testament to...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/tips-about-first-aid-provided-camp-staff
Tips about First Aid Provided by Camp StaffThere are times when general camp staff respond to injury-illness events. These staff are not the camp's officially designated healthcare providers, but rather the staff who, by happenstance, are...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/what-about-children
What About the Children?Over the past five decades, I have attended and presented sessions at many conferences, seminars, and educational events offered by the Maine Youth Foundation; ACA, New England; and ACA national. I...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/workers-compensation-facts
Workers Compensation FactsWorkers compensation laws exist in all 50 states and in the District of Columbia. Each state’s law is different. Do you understand your camp employer’s obligations as well as yours? This is an...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/praise-self-esteem
Praise and Self-EsteemBest selling author Ashley Merryman — who has also been tutoring in inner-city Los Angeles for eleven years — recently spoke with ACA about youth development findings in her award-winning book, ...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/20-20-toolbox-rewards-reinventing-wheel
20/20 Toolbox: The Rewards of Reinventing the WheelThe year 2020 seems so distant, and yet our goal as a collection of camp professionals is to serve 20 million campers by that year. So how do we get there? I have long been a proponent that programs...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/looking-back-education-formal-sense
Looking Back: Education in a "Formal" SenseDoing good work with and for youth has been a hallmark of the camp experience since its inception. Very quickly, there was recognition that the place and space of camp was also "good" for the staff...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/working-toward-healthier-camp-five-strategies-camp-administrators-reconsider-now
Working Toward a Healthier Camp: Five Strategies for Camp Administrators to (Re)Consider Now!The Healthy Camp Study has been completed. As a result, the camp community now has an initial understanding of camp injury/illness events founded on evidence. This understanding is already making an...
https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/cyberbullying-protection-plan
A Cyberbullying Protection Plan"Kick a Ginger Day." Fair to say, the majority of adults reading this article have no idea what this means. A bunch of junior-high-aged kids in Calabasas, California, did, however. On November 20,...