Project aims to strengthen, expand, and celebrate character development at over 15,000 year-round and summer camps nationwide
INDIANAPOLIS — A nonprofit with over 15,000 camps across the country is getting a huge boon in its effort to enrich kids' characters and help them become better humans for life.
"A key piece is, in every one of those programs kids are living in a community of learning where they’re learning to contribute and receiving back from that program and learning tremendous character traits — for example independence, resilience, and emotional resilience in particular," ACA president and CEO Tom Rosenberg said."They’re learning social skills learning to persist trying hard things.
Rosenberg says camps often have character development efforts, but this new initiative will lift up these programs, helping camps be more intentional.
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