https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/rethinking-health-center-assessing-your-health-center-setting-goals

The health center is a critical link in developing and maintaining a safe environment for your campers. However, providing adequate care to an active young population can be challenging. How should...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/health-care-providers-whos-best-my-camp

With another summer tucked into history, many camp professionals use autumn to review the summer as well as decompress from it. This is often when we consider changes that would "make things better"...

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https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/under-influence-respect-responsibility-conduct-camp-counselors

Among the many challenges camp directors face at staff training time is effectively addressing the personal conduct of those charged with caring for the campers—a task made increasingly difficult by...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camping-alone-connection-consistency-contribution-how-summer-camps-build-social-capital

Eight years ago, Harvard University Professor Robert Putnam published a book, Bowling Alone, chronicling the demise of connection in modern-day American society and warning that the precipitous...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/art-camp-how-arts-programs-fuel-self-expression-youth-development

The shiny coach bus rumbled to a stop just in front of a small, white bungalow bearing a faded green sign reading: Camp Office. Our chaperone, a freshly scrubbed college kid charged with maintaining...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/epidemic-translating-drug-prevention-principles-camp

The American Camp Association is committed to promoting healthy lifestyles for youth. In this issue of Camping Magazine we are pleased to present the second in a three-...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/more-village-fostering-community-response-underage-drinking

Anyone who has attended or worked at a summer camp knows the experience transcends that offered by the mere existence of soccer balls, tennis courts, or sailboats. Camps are communities—villages...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/rites-passage-camp-pays-youth-development-happiness-health-safety

For years sociologists, anthropologists, and psychologists have mourned the loss of traditions marking important childhood "rites of passage." In earlier American culture, movement toward adulthood...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/social-networking-issues-cyberbullying

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