Buyer's Guide | American Camp Association

4points Paramedic and EMT Instructors are outdoor professionals ready to train your staff in CPR, First Aid, Wilderness First Aid and Wilderness First Responder. We are:*Authorized Guides for the National Park Service* American Heart Association CPR and First Aid Instructors* SOLO Schools authorized providers for Wilderness Medical Training (WFA/WFR)* Proud members of the American Camping Association *Members of ISEEN--The Independent Schools Experiential Education Network.

The ACA New Director Orientation (NDO) is a course for seasonal or newer camp directors, assistant directors, program directors, and others moving into camp leadership positions. The course includes an overview of all the aspects of the director's job with the primary focus on the summer operation.

ACA’s virtual learning portfolio includes online courses, recorded webinars, and staff certificates of added qualifications (in-depth online competency-based courses). You can customize learning for your staff on our platform. This is an incredible deal.

Adventure Experiences, LLC is a full service challenge course and zip line company committed to excellence in training, expertise in construction, comprehensive inspections, and supplying the best equipment in the industry. If you have any challenge course or zip line needs, please feel free to visit our website at www.advexp.com or contact us at: P: 800-595-2945 E: info@advexp.com

BUILDING EXPERIENCES SINCE 1989! For more than 3 decades, Alpine Towers has been delivering the best in Adventure Course Design and Technology. We create facilities that Educate, Inspire and Empower every user with experiences that will last a lifetime. Driven by true craftsmanship, we design, build, service and equip world class experiential learning and recreational environments. We are a comprehensive, full-service challenge course provider.

At Challenge Quest, experiential learning is our passion. We build, inspect, facilitate, train, and sell gear. We work to make YOUR vision a reality. Prioritizing our clients’ unique identity and goals, we bring our experience and qualifications to create customized training and construction. We offer third party annual ropes course inspections by ACCT inspectors, repairs, and construction of ropes courses, ziplines, climbing walls and more. We train low ropes, high ropes, archery and aquatics.

We are all things Aerial Adventure and Ropes/Challenge Courses! California bred and based; we have been proudly supporting camps and their aerial adventure operations for 25 years! Whether you need a new course designed and built, your existing course inspected and maintained, your staff trained and certified, or new harnesses and helmets, we’ve got you covered. Our mission is to support you and keep your courses and staff top notch. ACCT PVM (Fully Accredited Professional Vendor Member).

Motivating and inspiring training for staff and leadership communication and strategic coaching for camp leaders. Specializing in defining your mission and making your camp hugely successful in spite of the economy or the culture. Extraordinary track record of success.

Staff training starts today! We offer 140+ videos hosted by the most respected educators in youth development. Pre-season, web-based training saves you time and puts all of your staff in a professional mindset. Discover why more than 2,500 camps have chosen ExpertOnlineTraining.com to be the perfect complement to their on-site training.

Great Lakes Wilderness Emergency Response Training (WERT) offers a nationally recognized Wilderness First Aid (WFA) course through Stonehearth Open Learning Opportunities (SOLO). We can tailor make your first aid training and include education on medication disbursement. The standard WFA course is 16 hours long and would offer that national certification for your staff. We can do shorter or longer programs to meet your specific needs. We alos offer CPR and pet first aid training.

HIGH FIVE® is a certification program that offers interactive, on demand training for camp leaders who deliver or manage children's programming. Earn trusted certification in just 4 hours – elevate your camps with HIGH FIVE® training! HIGH FIVE® is the best way to Play!

Queer Camp Fair directory connects LGBTQ+ families and their allies to the camps they are seeking and vice versa. This comprehensive, curated resource supports parents in finding awesome summer camps that will affirm and support their kids. Founder Jennifer Boudrye is a parent to camp-loving adults, including a proudly bisexual son and a trans man. Through her company, Parent With Care, she guides individuals to become the enthusiastic, affirming allies that queer communities need and deserve.

Over the last 35 years Summer Search has developed a mentoring framework (Depth Mentoring) and a matching training program (the Depth Mentoring Institute) that can help adults in the lives of young people – counselors, educators, advisors, administrators and supporting staff, and managers – improve their skills at being an effective mentor and trusted adult in any setting. Our training offerings cover SEL, Critical Consciousness, Human Development + Identity Formation and Trauma Sensitivity.

Redwoods uses caring to create change. We provide insurance and management consulting to socially responsible, youth-serving organizations. Our work is to serve, and our purpose is to transform. We use data gathered through insurance to guide behavior through consulting. So that together with our customers, we bring prevention to the forefront and healing to all.

The Unbeatables Academy is a complete life skills and social-emotional learning (SEL) curriculum designed specifically for camps that want to enrich their programming and create a lasting impact on children, families, and staff. With over 15 years of experience running our own day camp, Camp Unbeatables, we developed a system that teaches kids essential skills like emotional intelligence, leadership, self-regulation, teamwork, and resilience — all through engaging, age-appropriate content.

Our program is designed to be plug-and-play. We offer: Ready-to-use lesson plans and engaging SEL presentations Visual materials to reinforce values and character-building Basic facilitator training to guide your team. Let’s help you go beyond fun — and create a well-rounded experience where campers grow socially, emotionally, and confidently.

Viristar provides training and consulting services to camps worldwide. Viristar offers four services: 1) risk management training, resources, and expert guidance; 2) program and curriculum development, 3) business management consulting, and 4) wilderness medicine training. Led by a team of experienced industry experts, Viristar has provided staff training, safety audits, strategic planning, and risk management consultation to camps and related programs in dozens of countries and across the USA.