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Being an Effective Nature Counselor: Activities to Engage Youth in the Outdoors will teach activities and techniques to help campers use ALL of their senses in the outdoors, and also help them develop their sixth sense: the sense of Wonder. Techniques include framing, facilitating, and debriefing of your nature activities.

The Spring 2012 issue features information on after-camp contacts, notes from the 2012 insurance roundtable, the basics of online reputation management, and concussion recognition and prevention tips.

2012 Spring CampLine

Access the most recent budget and finance data for camps with the ACA Camp Business Operations Report: 2012. Purchase the survey results today!

Show parents your commitment to excellence in staff training! Staff members receive 15 hours of training per course. Group purchasing rates available. 

ACA's Explore 30 Camp Reading Program addresses summer learning loss by providing youth with at least 30 minutes of reading time per day.

Explore 30 Camp Reading Program

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Share the Value of ACA Membership with
Your Staff

Looking for a way increase professionalism and retention among your staff? ACA is offering an incredibly affordable way to do just that.

Purchase multiple memberships for your staff now at a price that is so reasonable, you can't afford not to participate. When you give an ACA membership, you're offering a bonus to worthy staff, you're supporting staff professional development, you're increasing the possibility staff will return to your program, and you're supporting ACA's commitment to increase the number of members, donors, and customers to 20,000 by 2020.

Purchase by May 31, 2010, to receive the following discounts. All memberships are effective for a year after date of purchase.

Share the value of ACA membership with your student staff
Purchase multiple memberships for your student staff at the following rates: (Student membership is regularly $35.)

  • Give 10 new student memberships at $30 each!
  • Give 20 new student memberships at $25 each!
  • Give 50 new student memberships at $10 each!

Share the value of ACA membership with all your key staff
You may purchase multiple individual memberships for your staff at the following rate: (Individual membership is regularly $200.)

  • Give 10+ new individual memberships at $50 each!

Here's How It Works

  • Decide how many memberships you want to purchase.
  • Provide the ACA national office with personal contact information, including a personal e-mail address, for each new student member by whatever means is easiest for you and your camp: in an Excel file or simply by sending ACA an e-mail.
  • Send a check or credit card info to the ACA national office.
  • All members receive all ACA publications, e.g., Camping Magazine and The CampLine. (Student members who are registered as part of this incentive program will receive all publications electronically.) For key staff memberships (not student memberships), please indicate "print" or "electronic" for each person on your list.
  • All members receive discounts on books and educational events, and access to current research.
  • Student members receive FREE registration to the ACA National Conference!

Options for registering your staff

  • Enter your staff information into an Excel template and send to membership@ACAcamps.org.
  • Call us at 800-428-2267 or send us an e-mail with your staff information or with questions about the best way to send this information to us.

If you have questions about this program, please call the membership department at 800-428-2267.

Show your staff that you believe in their future, and give them the opportunity to grow in our professional community.

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American Camp Association | Summer camps | summer camp | camps | camp jobs | summer programs

Being an Effective Nature Counselor: Activities to Engage Youth in the Outdoors will teach activities and techniques to help campers use ALL of their senses in the outdoors, and also help them develop their sixth sense: the sense of Wonder. Techniques include framing, facilitating, and debriefing of your nature activities.

The Spring 2012 issue features information on after-camp contacts, notes from the 2012 insurance roundtable, the basics of online reputation management, and concussion recognition and prevention tips.

2012 Spring CampLine

Access the most recent budget and finance data for camps with the ACA Camp Business Operations Report: 2012. Purchase the survey results today!

Show parents your commitment to excellence in staff training! Staff members receive 15 hours of training per course. Group purchasing rates available. 

ACA's Explore 30 Camp Reading Program addresses summer learning loss by providing youth with at least 30 minutes of reading time per day.

Explore 30 Camp Reading Program

Find a Camp

Looking for a summer camp? Search over 2,400 ACA-Accredited camps.

Find a Job

Find the perfect summer or year-round camp job. Need Staff? Check Out ACA’s Staff Recruitment Solutions!

Join ACA

Join today and be an integral part of an evolving, versatile, and vibrant organization of people with knowledge to share.