I had an email which was asking about the possibility of using summer camp job experience as a stepping stone to a full time, year round career in the summer camp field. The answer is yes there are careers in many capacities dealing with summer camps and my recommendation would be to use the American Camp Association Jobs website where you can post your resume, sign up for the email job alerts, find out about local summer camp job fairs and much more relevant data related to the summer camp career path.

You will also find information here as to what employers are looking for in their summer camp staff as well as educational options directly related to summer camp for positions such as:

Camp Administration
Environmental Education
Experiential Education
Leisure/Recreation Program Delivery
Natural Resources Recreation Management
Outdoor Education
Therapeutic Recreation

Over the past several days I’ve received several emails asking for specific information regarding summer camps and I do encourage you to email if you have questions. For the next few days I’ll be addressing these emailed questions and the number one enquiry has been asking for more information on northeast summercamps. Most of the emails are looking for information about traditional summercamps, so I’ll address those types of summercamps programs today.

Some of you are looking for specific locations like summercamps New York and I’ll include that in the discussion since there are a huge number of options for people looking to attend summercamps NY.

When researching childrens summercamps I recommend starting with the American Camp Association which has a wonderfully designed search page that lets you locate kids summercamps by location, activity/targeted focus, affiliation/cultural focus and age … they even have an advanced search function to really allow you to delimit your searches.

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