Culture and Climate: The Collective Marks of Trauma on the Identity of Camp
Explore the concept of collective trauma and its profound effects on individuals and communities in this insightful recorded webinar. As we enter the transformative space of camp, we often overlook the shared experiences that shape our identities. This session examines how significant cultural and climate-related events resonate within a group, influencing both psychological and physiological responses.
Discover how these collective experiences impact our work and contribute to the holistic development of our well-being. Gain valuable insights into navigating and supporting individuals affected by shared traumas, and learn how our shared histories shape our present and future.
Crisis — It Can Really Happen to You 2024
Join us for an interactive session on lessons learned from the 2024 ACA Camp Crisis Hotline calls. We’ll highlight key areas of concern and tough questions camps faced, based on ACA’s 2024 data. Gain insights into unexpected situations, emerging issues, and explore real case studies to understand lessons learned. You'll also receive practical guidance and key considerations for refining your policies, practices, and improving preparedness for emergencies and crises in camp operations.
Strategies for Cultivating a Culture of Staff Retention This Summer
Together we will cover 5 ready-to-implement strategies that will support you in retaining your staff throughout this summer and also looking ahead to next summer.
The strategies that will be discussed include creating leadership opportunities for staff, giving and receiving honest feedback, providing genuine and timely individual praise, understanding staff member expectations, and cultivating staff connections with intentionality and precision.
Presenter: Daniel Shore
CEC's: 1.0
Quality Improvement in Action Series
Camp is a setting where many young people feel safe to be themselves and supported to engage in new and exciting activities. This doesn’t just inherently happen, but instead must be created through intentional staff practices. The ways in which staff, activities, and culture create the environment of camp is called program quality. But how do you create high quality programs? Through initial training and continuous improvement!
This webinar will focus on two concepts, program quality and continuous improvement, and real examples of introducing them at a camp organization. Come learn about what camp program quality looks like in action and how to engage with continuous improvement in this context.