https://www.acacamps.org/book/counselor-training-encouraging-youth-development-outcomes-camp

Counselor-in-Training: Encouraging Youth Development Outcomes at Camp is a useful book/online resource for anyone interested in providing a quality training experience for their young...

https://www.acacamps.org/book/camp-nursing-basics-beyond

Providing an expansive discussion of camp nursing practice and health services, Erceg & Gaslin’s close to 500-page book is evidence-based and includes a host of tools for making actionable...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/make-commitment-encouraging-wellness-healthy-living-camp

An alarming study purports that the current generation of children may have shorter life expectancies than their parents for the first time in over two centuries. The rapid rise in childhood obesity...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/aristotle-wants-your-kids-go-summer-camp-why-you-might-want-tag-along

by Anna Czarnik-Neimeyer, a guest blog for ACA.  As we celebrate the end of the school year and sweaty legs come un-stuck from plastic chairs in classrooms across America, kids are...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/camp-was-made-summer-learning

June 19 is National Summer Learning Day, a time to reflect on what summer learning means and what summer learning loss implies. In a March 2009 interview in support of year-round schools with OnPoint...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/camping-magazines-20-20-toolbox

The 20/20 Toolbox series provides resources to help camps realize ACA’s 20/20 Vision. We are calling this series a “toolbox” for a reason — our intent is to focus on providing hands-on, real-life, “...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/convergence-collaborative-melodies-create-youth-development-success

The Beginnings of Youth Development The American Camp Association (ACA) is over 100 years old. In that context of age, youth development is a relatively young field of study. In 1998, the ACA...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/where-they-are-now-confirming-important-work-camps-do

Several years ago, the editor-in-chief of this magazine asked me to write a piece describing the outcomes of underserved kids who had the advantage of attending summer camp. This article examines...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/xxx-posed-how-much-sex-violence-too-much

The boy had tears welling up in his eyes, and I didn’t know why. When he finally spoke, the explanation for his mounting anxiety surprised even me. I say even me because I have...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/boys-camp-developing-skills-life-success

I spent a few months earlier this year visiting camps throughout New England. One of my stops was Camp Watitoh, a sleepaway camp in the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts, where a college classmate...