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Shelby Sever
Dustin Slaughter
Zach McMurray

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• Evening Programs: Intentional Design for Lasting Impact
• Training Staff As Easy as P.I.E.
• Office Politics: How to Survive a Multi-Generational Office Environment Without Losing Your Cool
• Who Should I Promote
• SEL Games for Campers
• Exploring American Camp Association Resources
• Behavioral Interview Tools: Evaluating our Model One Year Later and How Your Camp Can Benefit
• Using Your Fall Seasons Strategically
• The Dichotomies of Camp
• From Rags to Riches: Camp Success on a Shoestring Budget
• Burnout: How to Recognize and Recover
• It Really Can Happen to You - Lessons from the ACA Crisis Hotline Team
• CampWell Training

• Sing A Long: Staff Training Session
• When Staff Say 'I Just Don’t Wanna' – A New Wave of Camp Counselors
• Branding within a Brand
• Year-Round Parent Communications
• Cultivating Camp Culture: Strategies (that have worked for me) for a Safe and Supportive Staff Environment
• Motherhood in Camping - Is It Possible? Challenges, Joys, Boundaries, Tips, and Connection
• Trauma Informed Camping
• Global Camp Connections: Learning About, Building, and Sustaining International Camp Partnerships
• Behavioral Health Support: A Case Study
• The Day Camp Director: Perspectives & Possibilities
• Camp Management through an Academic Lens
• Design for the Outdoors: The Positive Impact of Nature-Based Landscape Solutions

• Parents are our Partners - Our Communication Strategy
• AmeriCorps, the Y and You: Building a Partnership that 'Works'
• How to Market When Attention Spans are 3 Seconds
• Navigating Strategy vs Tactics
• Character at Camp
• Tools to Fight Burnout
• 16 Things I Learned This Year
• From 496 to 1052: Camp Marketing Strategies and Lessons Learned
• Building Your Network (Association Relationships 2.0)
• Supervising This Generation
• Responding to Reports of Physicality Between Bunkmates
• Better than You Found It - Influencing Staff and Career Sustainability
• Neurodivergent Programming
• Decision Making Matrix - Title Under Construction
• National PIT Crew Summer Projects