Buyer's Guide | American Camp Association

With over 20 years of experience in character development worldwide, Cloud9World proudly introduces Character at Camp. This program cultivates key traits like kindness, gratitude, teamwork, resilience, and empathy in a fun, engaging way, leaving a lasting impact on campers. Developed specifically for camps, Character at Camp helps make character growth an exciting part of camp life, inspiring meaningful growth and connection in the camp community.

Magic happens at summer camp! Are you looking for a unique entertainer for youth development? Programs are based on the best-selling book, Magic Ball of Light: Summer Camp. This heartwarming story takes place at a special summer camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains where children learn to manage emotions, build self-esteem and confidence and practice gratitude. Interactive and engaging workshops can be customized to include book readings, arts & crafts, and small group discussions.

Magic Explorers is an exciting new program developed by a team of magicians and educators with the core purpose of teaching kids to CARE. Kids learn empathy and grit as they make their own magic tricks and then share them with others. Magic Activity Packs, or MAPs, combine magic tricks and arts and crafts to boost confidence and build communication skills. Each MAP is an easy punch out activity (approximately 60 minutes) that the kids then get to take home and show to their friends and family. You can do just one trick by itself or multiple tricks throughout your camp.

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.