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.
Children and youth need a community that: encourages achievement and builds self-esteem; promotes healthy lifestyles, fitness, and activity; teaches in a classroom without walls; instills appreciation, respect, and responsibility for the natural world around them; and inspires the confidence and courage to become the leaders of tomorrow.
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Nature
Rocks: Resources to Help Camps Market
Programs to Parents and Connect Children
and Nature
ACA
is pleased to offer members exciting new
Nature Rocks resources to support your
efforts to provide meaningful experiences
to children and families.
Nature
Rocks is a national program to reach, inspire
and empower millions of families to play
and explore in nature. Drawing on research
that indicates that activities in nature
makes children and families happier, healthier
and smarter, Nature Rocks is guided by
Richard Louv- author of the best-seller Last Child in the Woods and has a growing
list of national partners.
ACA became a
partner as part of our 20/20 vision to
engage 20 million children in the camp
experience by the year 2020. In order to
achieve this vision, which is founded on
the importance of children developing an
intimacy with nature, ACA and camps will
need to reach out to parents and families
across America. Nature Rocks is one important
strategy in this effort. ACA's involvement
in Nature Rocks is supported by Lilly Endowment
Inc.
Through ACA's partnership in the Nature
Rocks program we are able to offer you
this customizable
set of materials and
new ways to reach more campers and parents.
With Nature Rocks you can draw on a powerful
marketing campaign, convey that you are
participating in a nationally recognized
program, connect parents to inspiring and
easy to use tools they can use at home
with friendly website and take-home materials,
and more. As part of the program member
camps are featured on www.NatureRocks.org and
the materials are designed to meet your
needs.
Just drop your logo into the template
materials, add Nature Rocks to your existing
communications, and become a part of the
Nature Rocks initiative.
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.
Children and youth need a community that: encourages achievement and builds self-esteem; promotes healthy lifestyles, fitness, and activity; teaches in a classroom without walls; instills appreciation, respect, and responsibility for the natural world around them; and inspires the confidence and courage to become the leaders of tomorrow.
