Child Health and Safety Issues
Comprehensive resources gathered to promote the health and safety of every child.Bullying PreventionIllness and Injury PreventionNutrition, Healthy Eating, and Healthy Lifestyles Prevention and...
View ArticleHelp Stop the Asian Longhorned Beetle From Killing More Trees
For any camp professional, imagining a camp without trees would be hard to fathom. Especially since for the past century, you and other ACA camp professionals have worked to preserve the camp...
View ArticleACA Camp Business Operations Report: 2012
Improve Camp Business Operations Access the most recent budget and finance data for camps. Questions this year included scholarship information, discounts, marketing strategies used, revenue sources,...
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Wildfire Evacuations
The safety of your campers and staff and anyone who may be on your property are your primary responsibility. Review your risk management plan for camp evacuation and coordinate with appropriate local...
View ArticleFBI Ten Most Wanted List — July 2012 Alert
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has asked the American Camp Association to share this information with camps and members:The FBI announced the addition of ERIC JUSTIN TOTH, aka DAVID BUSSONE,...
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Should Your Camp Serve as an Evacuation Center?
Evacuation Center Pre-Commitment Questions for Campsread more
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Talking with Children about Tragedies, Death, and National Disasters
Top Tips for CampsEstablish a mental health support network. Build relationships with community mental health resources prior to your camp season. read more
View ArticleThe Perfect Place to Read: Encouraging the Love of Reading at Camp
Lauren Arend and Mary Rogers “Yes, a reading program fits into camp. Sherwood [Forest] Camp is a lot more than camping, mosquitoes, and swimming — it’s aimed at the whole child.” — Parent of a 2011...
View ArticleCompensation, Benefits, and Professional Development Report: 2013
Purchase the Survey Results for ACA Camp Compensation, Benefits, and Professional Development Report: 2013read more
View ArticleChild Abuse Prevention Resources
April Is National Child Abuse Prevention Month If you suspect that a child is a victim of abuse, contact the authorities immediately! Access the phone number to call in your state.read more
View ArticleACA Communications Toolkit
The communications toolkit is designed to guide camp professionals at all levels in their media relations activities. The toolkit is a resource for both proactive public relations and crisis...
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Extreme Heat — Preventing and Identifying Heat-Related Illness
In extreme temperatures and humidity, it’s important to train staff on the dangers of heat-related illnesses, signs of heat-related illnesses, and appropriate preventative measures.The Centers for...
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The communications toolkit is designed to guide camp professionals at all levels in their media relations activities. The toolkit is a resource for both proactive public relations and crisis...
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Bunks Are Good for Brains: The Neuroscience of Sleepaway Camp
An Interview with Tina Payne Bryson, PhD Tina Payne Bryson, PhD, will be delivering the opening keynote address at the 2014 ACA National Conference. Bryson is the coauthor (with Dan Siegel) of the...
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Success through Giving
An Interview with Adam Grant Bestselling author and top-rated Wharton School professor Adam Grant will be speaking at the 2014 ACA National Conference on Thursday, February 6. In an interview with...
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Growing Relationships and Nature Experiences
An Interview with Rue Mapp At age eleven, Rue Mapp was programming computers while growing up on her family’s ranch in northern California, participating in both recreational and organized camp...
View ArticleThe Business of Camp: Starting a New Camp
Ann Sheets and Dave Thoensen “It is critical to treat camp like a business or it will absolutely fail, and to know in your head and heart that if you treat camp only as a business it will also fail...
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Turning Camp Counselors into Nature Specialists: The Pemi Nature Instruction...
R. Laurence Davis, PhD pemicamp-cm.jpgIntroductionRichard Louv, in his book Last Child in the Woods, “links the absence of nature in the lives of today’s wired generation to some of the most...
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Camp Staff: Getting Health and Safety Messages to Stick
Linda Ebner Erceg, RN, MS, PHN; Tracey Gaslin, PhD, CRNI, CPNP, FNP-BC; and Chris Smith, MEd campstaff-howe.jpgCamp health is not bound by the four walls of the health center. Nor is safety bound by a...
View ArticleEnrollment Highlights from Summer 2013
Troy Bennett View the InfographicEach fall, the American Camp Association (ACA) requests enrollment information from camps across the country. The statistics and information allow us to chart industry...
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