Camping Magazine articles from July 2004

Camping Magazine archives from July 2004

Beyond surveys: exploring alternative ways to measure camp's benefits.
July 1, 2004... To determine the impact of your camp program, you too may be considering subjecting your campers to school-like testing conditions. Fortunately, there are alternative methods of data collection--methods that are less stuffy, more practical,...

Breaking the chains: camps that mentor children of prisoners.(Reprint)
July 1, 2004... By the time Angulus D. Wilson was seventeen, he had been in jail at least a dozen times for petty misdemeanors and hard-core crimes such as assault with a deadly weapon. It was then, when he was incarcerated and attended a Bible study taught by...

Building principles: that's the night the lights went out.
July 1, 2004... As a child, there was some mystique associated with a power outage. It seldom happened on warm, clear days, but most often during or after a violent weather event. This only made things much more exciting. But when you are charged with keeping...

Camp: something new for HIV/AIDS-affected youth in South Africa.(Camp Sizanani)
July 1, 2004... Summer camp is an annual ritual of delight for millions of American youth. But for children in South Africa, the physical challenges, social skill-building, the friend-making, and the just plain fun of camp have been basically absent--until...

Campers with food allergies.
July 1, 2004... Summer camp is a time for children to have nonstop fun indulging in their favorite activities. For children with food allergies, going away to camp is not a simple decision, yet many parents have worked successfully to enable their children...

Extraordinary transformations: the Byron Center's approach.(retreat center)
July 1, 2004... None of us become involved in camping and retreating to do ordinary things. All of us realize at some point that what we're about is creating opportunities for accomplishing "extraordinary" transformations with individuals and groups. Usually,...

Family camping: building a community at warp speed the special case of family camping.
July 1, 2004... Children are part of families, and families are diverse--in their structure, in the way they function, and in the ways they relate to one another. There can be strength in such diversity, but there can also be associated challenges. Diversity...

Outreaching to diverse communities: the Hispanic community.
July 1, 2004... It's a summer Monday morning--a school bus leaves one of the Union League Boys and Girls Clubs (ULBGC) carrying eighteen boys and twenty girls from the Pilsen neighborhood in Chicago. Behind, a handful of parents wave goodbye to their most...

Risk management: stretching your insurance budget.
July 1, 2004... Change puts pressure on all of the resources of your camp business. Sometimes change comes from within. But often change is imposed on us from events external to our organizations and lives. Developing coping strategies for managing change...

Summer camp program: pluralism in the camp experience.(Girl Scouts of Chicago)
July 1, 2004... In a perfect world, our camp communities would reflect our increasingly pluralistic world, where campers could experience a multicultural, multinational environment that fosters understanding, respect, and personal growth. While some camps have...

TechnoTrends: cellphones, blackberries ... what's not to like? (A Lot, Actually).
July 1, 2004... I suppose it was inevitable. In a society that increasingly prides itself as being always accessible--always "plugged in"--it was only a matter of time before campers started showing up at camp with cellphones and wireless e-mail devices (e.g.,...

The Aloha family celebrates 100 years.(Aloha Camp)
July 1, 2004... This summer, Aloha Camp, in Fairlee, Vermont, will join many camps in the United States that have reached their centennial milestone. Aloha's founders were part of an educational community that found camp to be a natural extension of the...