Broad & Bright Articles

AMSkier’s Broad and Bright library shares valuable summer camp resources and are open to the public. Broad and Bright is a smaller library curated from our full media center of SKI-Way articles, which is packed with valuable tips and resources for summer camps and camp leaders. This extensive library of SKI-Way articles, videos, podcasts and other summer camp resources is exclusive to our AMSkier summer camp clients. Each article is prepared by experts in the camp industry because we know informed and prepared camp leaders help make children’s summer camps safer and better. Several SKI-Way articles are published a month and full access to these articles, podcasts, and other media is exclusively available to AMSkier camp clients. Stay informed by legal experts, child psychologists, behavior specialists, and top leaders in the camp industry and consider insuring your camp with us.

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Face The Nation – A Webinar: Security and Safety for a New Age

Face The Nation – A Webinar 2017 brings a new set of security and safety challenges with it. Join our expert panelists, John Clader, Jeremy Fingerman, Gary Kimball, Alan Cooper Esq., Paul Goldenberg and Ken Kramarz, moderated by Lisa Champeau. Join us and learn how to prepare your camp for security issues in 2017. Topics […]

AMSkier Brackets For A Cause

This March, put your game face on and join the AMSkier All-Stars pool while raising funds for honorable causes, including the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society of New Jersey and a charity to be decided by our winner!

Ken Glotzer, ACA Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient

Ken Glotzer, ACA Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient Twenty-eight years ago I was lucky to meet a gentleman who had the foresight, knowledge and ability to pick up the pieces of the camp industry devastated by the sexual abuse allegations of the 1980s. He envisioned a strategic partnership between the insurance and camp industries, working together […]

The grass is always greener -- Do medical and recreational marijuana laws send workplace rules up in smoke?

Medical Marijuana at Summer Camp and in the Workplace

All Camps prohibit to some degree the use of “controlled substances” (i.e. drugs) both on and off campus, unless in accordance with a lawful prescription. But what if the prescription is for medical marijuana? Can camps continue to forbid the use of a substance that is prescribed in accordance with law? And what about those states that have legalized marijuana for recreational use? Can you ban your staff from using a perfectly legal substance?

‘TIS THE SEASON…FOR COLDS

As a mother of two young children, I feel like there is never a time when every family member is healthy during the winter months. Fortunately, by using food as our main line of defense we can strengthen our immune systems and fight off those runny noses and coughs once and for all! Here are a few key tips to keep everyone healthy this season.

A Partner In Empowerment