Camp and Gender Institute
Thank you for joining us for this important package! We look forward to learning and listening together as a community of camp professionals dedicated to creating truly inclusive environments that celebrate the gender diversity of the young people we serve. By the end of our time together, we hope you will leave with the tools, resources and connections necessary to embark on a journey towards greater gender inclusion in your camps.
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Package 2.0
Help to create an environment that builds capacity within the camp community to understand, accept, value, and honor the unique contributions of all people in our camps. ACA hope to encourage camps to create and maintain an inclusive camp community that eliminates stereotypes, bias, and bullying based on differences that include but are not limited to age, gender, ability, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual identity, and socio-economic status.
Camps share in an important role to teach and to help young people make sense of the world around them. Counselors and camp professionals must enable campers to become critical thinkers and leaders who can understand different perspectives with empathy. This is more important than ever. Talking about race with children is an essential component of summer and year-round camp programming.
This package includes seven courses and grants 8.5 continuing education credits through the American Camp Association.
- Camp Culture or Cultural Appropriation? Identifying Indigenous Erasure and Stereotypes to Reduce Harm (Dr. Cheryl Ellenwood)
- Understanding The Trans* Experience at Camp (Chris Rehs-Dupin)
- Race Conversations Continued: Tools & Activities for Engagement at Camp (Ozier and Perry)
- Race Conversations at Camp (Ozier and Perry)
- Camper Gender Support Plans – Building Blocks (Camp and Gender Institute Session)
- Trans Two: The Next Level (Jessica and Kayla Weissbuch)
- Transgender Staff at Camp (Nick Teich)
- The Ultimate Field Guide for Creating Accessible Word Documents, PowerPoints, and more! (Nate Evans)
Fundraising Package 2.0
Fundraising activities can determine the future of your organization. A strong fundraising effort can ensure there are adequate funds to support all your programs and activities; a poor performance can drain money and threaten the very survival of your organization. This package will provide a variety of real-world strategies for successes in fundraising by successful camps and funding experts.
This package includes four courses and grants 4.0 continuing education credits through the American Camp Association.
- Alumni Matter (Holland and Allison) 1.0 CEC
- Building an Army of Asking Ants! (Diane Tyrell) 1.0 CEC
- Fundamentals of Fundraising (Redding and Baker) 1.0 CEC
- What Happens When People Stop Being Polite and Start Getting Real About Fundraising! (Panel) 1.0 CEC
Communications, Marketing, and Social Media Package 2.0
The ability to communicate effectively is essential for camps. Effective communication skills enable camps any youth programs to market and define the benefits of camp, to respond to customer concerns and even persuade campers and families to take the next step, resulting in more campers in our programs.
Courses in this package include:
- Crisis Communication for Summer 2021 (Kelley Freridge) 1.0 CEC
- Crisis Communications for Camps in the Time of Coronavirus (Kelley Freridge) 1.0 CEC
- Fully Connected: How a Radical Cell Phone Policy Can Improve Your Camp Culture and Cure FOMO (Shawn Marler) 1.0 CEC
- Storytelling for Marketing: Telling the Story of Summer 2020 (Kelley Freridge) 1.0 CEC
- The Five-Minute Marketing Plan: Designing Your Blueprint for Success (Jodi Rudick) 1.0 CEC
Camp Director Package 2.0
Improving the quality of your camp programs and activities requires attention to your own continuing education and professional development. Yet many camp program directors struggle for time and funding for professional development. Using ACA’s Camp Program Director Package, learning has never been easier. Now you can learn from camp experts from the comfort of your own home or office at a time that’s right for you. From risk management and community building to program evaluation and improving your staff training programs, these courses are designed to take your camp programs to the next level.
This package includes seven courses and grants 8.0 continuing education credits through the American Camp Association.
- Four Quadrants of Accountability for Camp Staff (Stuart Jones) -1.5 CECs
- Fundraising for 2020 and Beyond and ACA Fundraising Toolkit (ACA) -1.0 CEC
- Getting Better Every Day: Improve with Camp Program Quality Assessment (ACA)- 1.5 CECs
- Meet Staff Where They Are Not Where You Wish They Would Be (Aycock and Jordan) 1.0 CEC
- Planning for Risk Management for Your Camp (Connie Coutellier) -1.0 CEC
- Race Conversations at Camp (Ozier, Perry) -1.0 CEC
- Storytelling for Marketing: Telling the Story of Summer 2020 (ACA) – 1.0 CEC
Camp Middle Manager Package 2.0
Improving the quality of your camp programs and activities requires attention to your own continuing education and professional development. Yet many middle managers and camp program directors struggle for time and funding for professional development. Using ACA’s Camp Middle Manager Package, learning has never been easier. Now you can learn from camp experts from the comfort of your own home or office at a time that’s right for you. From risk management and youth outcomes to program evaluation and improving your staff training programs, these courses are designed to take your camp programs to the next level. This package includes six courses and grants 6.5 continuing education credits through the American Camp Association.
- Creating Positive Youth Outcomes (ACA) – 1.0 CEC
- Critical Things Staff Need to Know about Risk Management (Connie Coutellier) – 1.0 CEC
- Designing Quality Youth Programs (ACA) – 1.0 CEC
- Effective Supervision Skills for Senior Staff (Bob Ditter) – 1.0 CEC
- Recorded Webinar: Four Quadrants of Accountability for Camp Staff (Stuart Jones) – 1.5 CEC
- Top Training Techniques: Fast & Effective Ways to Increase Staff Learning & Performance (Michael Brandwein) – 1.0 CEC
Camp Staff Member Package 2.0
Have you thought about ways to prepare your staff for camp BEFORE they arrive onsite? Are you interested in an affordable solution for integrating camp and youth development experts into your staff training program?
With ACA’s Camp Staff Member Package, you can provide frontline staff with foundational knowledge in the areas of camp-centered leadership, creating community, reducing injuries and illness, bullying prevention, risk management, and recognizing and reporting child abuse.
Featuring training from national educators and trainers including Joel Haber, Linda Erceg, Kim Aycock, Susan Fee, and Beth Jensen. This package is a terrific strategy for camps interested in involving “experts” at a fraction of the typical cost.
This package includes seven online courses providing 7.75 continuing education credits through the American Camp Association
- A Counselor’s Role in Healthcare Online Course - Ticks, Tears and Toothpaste (Erceg) -.75 CECs
- Back to the Basics: Creating a Cohesive Staff Community (Kim Aycock) – 1.0 CEC
- Camp Is for the Camper Online Course (ACA) -2.0 CECs
- Critical Things Staff Need to Know about Bullying Prevention (Joel Haber)- 1.0 CEC
- Managing Difficult Camper Behaviors (Susan Fee) -1.0 CEC
- Quirky Kids: What We Can Do When a Kid Doesn’t “Fit” (Beth Jensen) -1.0 CEC
- Recognizing and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect (Mary Everhart) – 1.0 CEC
Block the Blaze
Block the Blaze is a John Wayne Cancer Foundation (JWCF) funded youth skin cancer education program. The Block the Blaze program is the official partner of the California Surf Lifesaving Association (CSLSA) to provide skin cancer education to CA junior lifeguards; and a charitable partner of USA Swimming Foundation to educate youth enrolled in Make a Splash swim lessons.
ACA and the JWCF have worked together to provide this sun safety course structured to provide a straightforward understanding of playing it safe in the sun.
This one hour online course for staff helps them understand and pass along to their youth participants the importance of sun safety, skin cancer prevention and self-screening, and provides the necessary tools to share with youth for playing it safe in the sun!
Presenter: John Wayne Cancer Foundation
CEC's: 1.0