https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/care-feeding-adolescents-camp

You are reading this article because you are working with adolescents at camp this summer and are probably a little bit worried about doing so. Given the ways in which adolescents are portrayed in...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/concussion-awareness-risk-management-more-headache

The long-term health implications from concussion among players in the National Football League (NFL) were a concern for nearly 20 years. The NFL studied, debated, and finally acknowledged the issue...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/helping-campers-challenging-backgrounds-gain-life-skills

Every child is unique. Every camp is unique. So, unique approaches when responding to the needs of children in camps are essential. Summer camps were started to support children during out-of-school...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/building-healthy-camp-strategies-worked

A Healthy Camp Community Three years ago, the camp community placed a capstone on a significant accomplishment by completing the largest, most comprehensive study of camp-related injuries and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camp-vital-engagement

More and more children are trading true engagement for electronic connection. What are the costs and how does camp counter this trend? We live surrounded by a mobile technology that entices,...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/camps-help-make-children-resilient

When Jacob arrived at his city’s day camp for his third season, the camp director was determined to avoid the problems Jacob was experiencing at school. Now eleven years old, Jacob had grown into a...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/24-7-365-camp-community-sitting-around-online-campfire

We live in an era of experiences and community. What does that mean? Camp directors and staff just spent the past months creating memorable experiences for their campers, ensuring that every child...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/board-camp

Camp boards — what should they do? How do we train members of a camp board? And how do we recruit good board members? To find the answers, we must first start with governance. Many camps have some...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/what-parents-want-know-camp-counselors-should-know

As a camp counselor, you are about to assume an important role. Parents are going to give you their children to take care of for the length of their stay at camp. The term used to describe this...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/community-kinship-within-our-camps

Last summer, I was hanging out with a group of our oldest campers, many of whom have attended since they were four or five years old. As I’m constantly thinking of program improvement, I asked these...