Buyer's Guide | American Camp Association

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).

China Camp Education Alliance (CCEA), a non-profit organization, aims to share the latest camp education academic research, recognize notable achievements in the camp education field, and promote youth growth & development through camp education in China. CCEA was founded by 11 professional international education institutions. 1. Academic research and exchange in campsite education. 2. Promotion and popularization of camp education concepts, knowledge and research results. 3. Planning and organization of public welfare activities related to camp education. 4. Help China's camps including camp owners, managers, etc. find the suitable camp partners, content, and system to learn and grow. 5. Host some international conferences and promote China's camps.

Children Learning Through Outdoor Experiences (ChLOE) is a national network of outdoor education sites dedicated to providing high-quality STEM educational programming through hands-on experiences in agriculture and natural resources. Members gain access to professional development trainings, networking opportunities, and our Field Guides, which include comprehensive lesson plans and resources for developing partnerships with local school systems.

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!

Leave No Trace pioneers science and provides proven, research-based solutions for the protection of the natural world.

Get a second opinion on your specialized insurance needs. Our extensive experience in safeguarding camps and campers have given us the ability and expertise to offer a series of unique programs and specially designed coverages. Select and qualified camps are eligible for this special program.

Taking risks may be critical to achieving your organization’s educational goals. Risk is inherent in outdoor activities and international programming, but you can improve risk management practices and better manage uncertainty with the help of NOLS Risk Services. Offers Risk Management Training for administrators, Risk management consulting, and we are a co host of the Wilderness Risk Management Conference. All of our services are informed by decades of managing risk for our own global programs. Expand your risk management toolbox today and step forward with confidence.

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.

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.

TrainerTainment helps family entertainment centers grow. Our coaches have over 100 years of combined experience coaching and training teams to increase sales, service, and leadership for family entertainment centers and businesses.

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.