https://www.acacamps.org/book/designing-quality-youth-programs

Designing Quality Youth Programs is for camp directors who wanted to make their programs a better place for their young people. Built on eight steps, including asking for input from the...

https://www.acacamps.org/book/risk-crisis-management-planning

Connie Coutellier Risk and Crisis Management Planning is a tool to help administrators create a plan that will fit the circumstances of managing their organizations and their sites...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/how-measure-enrollment-part-two

To truly understand if you are serving campers in the ways you hope, you need to look at enrollment from several different angles.

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/importance-camp-lgbt-youth

The month of June holds a very special place in my heart. Warm weather, the joyous arrival of seasonal staff and campers, and of course, LGBT Pride Month. Pride is a time to celebrate the lesbian,...

https://www.acacamps.org/link/dhs-securing-soft-targets-crowded-spaces

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/programs-innovatively-investing-campers-futures-2018-eleanor-eells-award-winners

Each year, ACA’s Eleanor P. Eells Award for Program Excellence recognizes camps that embody the award’s namesake by developing superior programming that effectively and creatively addresses the...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/summer-camps-fire-emergency-communications-six-lessons-learned-during-fire-camp

Fires are a potential hazard for camps located in wooded areas and urban areas alike. How camps respond and communicate to camp families and the community when a fire does occur can go a long way to...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/evaluating-bereavement-camps

Spending time in nature is often therapeutic and provides many benefits, such as improving cognitive functioning (Berman, Jonides, & Kaplan, 2008) and improving memory (Berto, 2005). Spending...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/performing-arts-programs-camp-need-creativity-digital-world

The culture of camps is deeply rooted in being places where kids not only have fun, but where they connect socially. Today, camps are taking on greater importance and many are focused on specialized...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/food-fire-fun-all-one-why-how-offer-outdoor-cooking-camp

At lunchtime, youthful chefs ages nine to 12 gather around tables in the camp dining room with knives in their hands and plastic cutting boards in front of them. Trying to follow directions in the...