https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/online-learning/recorded-webinar/school-comes-camp-new-era-funding-camp-school-partnerships-three-part

Think camp!  Think academics surrounded with the enrichment experiences camps traditionally provide. Add in the social emotional learning skills camps reinforce.  The result is a community...

https://www.acacamps.org/events-education/online-learning/covid-19-webinar/oshas-requirement-vaccination-testing-impact-camps

Join us for an update on OSHA’s new Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) on Vaccination and Testing and its impact on camps.  Under the new standard, covered employers must develop, implement, and...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/tips-hiring-quality-staff-without-spending-dime

A common challenge for summer camp administrators in 2021 was staff recruitment and hiring. This is not surprising, since there is a labor shortage across the country. According to the Washington...

https://www.acacamps.org/blog/campwire-episode-43-are-you-living-your-mission-through-your-employment-practices

ACA’s Professional Development Manager of the Western Region, John Beitner, sits down with the Executive Director of ACA, Illinois, Colette Marquardt, to discuss the growing trend in camps to make...

https://www.acacamps.org/resources/2021-camping-magazine-editorial-index

View an archive of editorial indexes. Featured Articles...

https://www.acacamps.org/about/leadership/volunteers/editorial-advisory-committee

Resources for the EAC.

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/positive-risk-taking-camp-why-does-it-matter

The COVID-19 pandemic has tested the resilience in each of us. Years of studies around resilience reveal that the quality of our relationships when we are young, especially with parents and...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/i-cant-breathe-poor-air-quality-communities-color

Anyone who operated, worked at, or attended a camp this past summer knows more than a thing or two (and likely more than they ever wanted to know) about risk. I, Briana Mitchell, am one of those...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/cutting-wood-sharpening

For the better part of a decade, I met many of the industry’s facilities leaders and staff in person at the Maintenance Conference in March every year. It was a great reprieve from winter captivity...

https://www.acacamps.org/article/camping-magazine/considering-access-summer-camp-part-ii-what-impacts-access-summer-camp

In the first article of this four-part series, we discussed summer camp as a developmentally enriching experience, the opportunity gap, and how we conceptualize the factors...