Basic Camp Management: An Introduction to Camp Administration

Manage your camp more effectively with the leading textbook for camp administration courses everywhere, including the American Camping Association's Basic Camp Director Course. The authors, seasoned and respected professionals, share their expertise in seventeen insightful and newly revised chapters filled with resources, useful examples, and a wealth of important information on topics important to all camp administrators: The Tradition of Camping, What Is the Camp Director's Job, Where Does the Program Begin, The Participant, Designing the Program, Personnel Organization, Personnel Recruitment, Staff Orientation and Training, Staff Supervision and Performance Appraisal, Selection, Development, and Maintenance of the Site, Risk Management, Operation and Supervision: Central Administrative Services, Marketing, Business and Finance, Volunteers, Evaluation and Reporting , and Professional Growth. It is increasingly critical for camps to prove their importance in the youth-development arena by providing measurable outcomes. This new edition helps you meet the needs of campers, parents, and staff in professional, outcome-driven ways—in a more user and Internet friendly format. Produced in cooperation with the American Camp Association (ACA).

Armand Ball has spent most of his adult life in organized camping as director of faith-based and YMCA camps in Florida, Tennessee, Texas, and Minnesota, and then as chief executive of the American Camp Association. He has been active in the local conservation foundation, the city's below-market-rate housing foundation board, the city's park and recreation committee, and the board of the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education of Florida Gulf Coast University. Armand was one of the founders of the International Camping Fellowship, and he served on its steering committee and as editor of their newsletter for a decade. He is now an emeritus member of the steering committee.Beverly Ball has served in various positions in faith-based and YMCA camps in Tennessee and Minnesota, as well as a trainer for Girl Scouts of the USA at the local and national level. Her professional career has included work as a high school teacher, church youth director, director of college student activities, and publications director for the American Camp Association. She has been active as a volunteer in conservation and wildlife organizations, including the J. N. “Ding” Darling National Wildlife Refuge on Sanibel Island.