Is
There Common Ground? Exploring
Youth Development Priorities
and Staff Competencies Across
Religious and Secular Camps
In the spring
of 2007, ACA religiously-affiliated
(RA) (n=89) and secular camps
(n=214) from across the country
participated in a study entitled “Is
There Common Ground?” conducted
by ACA, the Search Institute,
and the National Collaboration
for Youth. The ACA focus in the
project was to explore the core
competencies of staff working
in both types of camps as well
as their interests in and concerns
about working together. The camp
sample included a diverse set
of camps, representing resident
camps (64 percent); day camps
(16 percent); and both resident
and day camps (19 percent). Christianity
was the most common religious
affiliation of RA camps. Secular
camps tended to be “independent
nonprofit camps” (39 percent); “agency
camps” (33 percent); or “independent
for-profit camps” (22 percent). |
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| See the final
report of Lilly Endowment's Indiana
Camp Ministries Enhancement
Program (ICMEP). This
four year project with Indiana
camps revealed some trends
in contemporary church
camping that can provide
helpful insights for camp leaders. |
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| “Creating
an idyllic world for children’s
spiritual formation”,
by Karen Marie Yust in the International
Journal of Children’s
Spirituality, Vol. 11,
No. 1, April 2006 – This
article uses the findings of
the Lilly study, Indiana Camp
Ministries Enhancement Program
(ICMEP) to make some recommendations
for today’s religious
camps. There is a fee for purchase
of this article. |
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| The Center
for Spiritual Development in
Childhood and Adolescence is
a global initiative to advance
the research and practice of
this important and understudied
domain of human development. Search
Institute, with major support
from the John
Templeton Foundation, is
designing the center to become
an international hub of theory,
research, and practice.
www.spiritualdevelopmentcenter.org |
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Strategic
Planning as Spiritual Discipline (pdf
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Strategic planning is a process
which guides a group in thoroughly examining
its current and past operation, evaluating
its effectiveness in light of its mission,
setting significant goals for the future,
and developing specific plans to achieve
those goals. This booklet is presented
in cooperation with Run River Enterprises.
For use of this copyright material, please
call 315-559-0526, e-mail pam@runriver.net,
or write to 1507 Woodmancy Road, Tully,
NY 13159. |
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