Learn the skills you need to succeed. Camping Magazine is your primary source for the most recent trends in the camp industry, the latest research in the field of youth development, critical management tools, and innovative programming ideas. September/October 2010 articles address education, research, history, 2020 Toolbox, and much more.
Join more than 1,500 of your colleagues, presenters, and exhibiting personnel at the 2011 National Conference in San Diego. Fourplus packed days of quality education, social and issuesbased networking, professional trade-show access, and special events are designed to boost your professional development.
Camp is just around the corner, and you’ve still got to pack! You might be a pro at packing for camp, but there are always a few things you might forget. That's why The Clorox Company is partnering with the ACA to bring you a simple list of great suggestions for what counselors and staff should make sure is on their packing list this summer. Take a look – it just might save you from leaving something really important off your list!
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Is Accreditation Right
for my Program?
The American Camping Association offers
a standards program that is appropriate
for a wide variety of camp experiences.
ACA accredits all types of programs sponsored
by all types of organizations -- agencies,
independently owned, religiously affiliated,
therapeutic, city/county programs, etc.
Day camps, resident camps, travel programs,
and others hold ACA accreditation.
ACA's Standards program is designed to serve
camps who operate programs consistent with
the following definition of camping:
A sustained experience which provides
a creative, recreational, and educational
opportunity in group living in the outdoors.
It utilizes trained leadership and the resources
of the natural surroundings to contribute
to each camper's mental, physical, social,
and spiritual growth.
"A sustained
experience" is defined as campers
attending a session for an established
period of time that lasts, generally,
at least five days.
"Group
living" includes planned and
organized group interaction that provides
personal growth, skill development, and
instructional opportunities.
"Outdoors"
requires utilizing the outdoors and the
natural environment as a principal setting
for activities and/or specialized recreational
skills such as archery, horseback riding,
swimming, and boating.
Camps may operate on their own property
or on property belonging to someone else.
Operations that lease, rent, or otherwise
make available their site and/or facilities
to other program operators or sponsors,
who are responsible for their own staffing
and programming, may also seek ACA accreditation.
Camps from outside the United States are
welcome to join ACA. Directors can benefit
from the publications, networking, and information
available. However, international camps
are not eligible for accreditation.
American Camp Association | Summer camps enrich children's lives!
Learn the skills you need to succeed. Camping Magazine is your primary source for the most recent trends in the camp industry, the latest research in the field of youth development, critical management tools, and innovative programming ideas. September/October 2010 articles address education, research, history, 2020 Toolbox, and much more.
Join more than 1,500 of your colleagues, presenters, and exhibiting personnel at the 2011 National Conference in San Diego. Fourplus packed days of quality education, social and issuesbased networking, professional trade-show access, and special events are designed to boost your professional development.
Camp is just around the corner, and you’ve still got to pack! You might be a pro at packing for camp, but there are always a few things you might forget. That's why The Clorox Company is partnering with the ACA to bring you a simple list of great suggestions for what counselors and staff should make sure is on their packing list this summer. Take a look – it just might save you from leaving something really important off your list!
