Monthly Archives: October 2014

SterlingBackcheck Expands Service with New Positions of Trust CheckNouveau service de SterlingBackcheck : la vérification pour postes de confiance

Rod Piukkala is Vice President with SterlingBackCheck. He introduces the new Position of Trust Check (PTC) program for those camps requiring vulnerable sector checks in his letter below. GREAT NEWS! Finally, a solution to meet your often unmet needs…another SterlingBackCheck … Continue reading

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Dear Parents & Guardians Alike

Dear Parents and Guardians Alike, Please send your kids to camp. For your benefit. For theirs. For the camp and for the campers there. Please send your kids to camp. At camp, they will be a part of a community … Continue reading

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YMCA/YWCA Director Praises Bondar ChallengeDes éloges pour le Défi Bondar

In 2014, 30 camps (including 16 returning camps) from British Columbia to New Brunswick participated in the Roberta Bondar Foundation photo challenge delivered by a total of eighty-six trainers/leaders. A few camps continued the program into their fall schedule. The … Continue reading

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ChariTree Is Taking Root!ChariTree s’enracine!

This past summer on a family, cross country, camping trip, Andrea Koehle Jones, Executive Director of the ChariTree Foundation, visited several camps to witness the progress of some of the 100,000 trees that Canadian campers have planted since the inception … Continue reading

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A great idea worth emulating!Un exemple à suivre!

Barb Gray, Director of Ontario Easter Seals Camps, knows how to make camping research work for her! In a note to Dr. Stephen Fine, Chair of the CCA Research Committee, Barb writes: “I use the data from the University of … Continue reading

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