Camp ASCCA Journal - Therapeutic Recreation

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This past Tuesday, November 4th, I had the pleasure of visiting North Glencoe Baptist Church. The church has an annual Women’s Christmas Program, and this year I was invited to be the guest speaker. This visit [...]

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This morning Camp ASCCA Administrator John Stephenson and I attended the River Region United Way Kickoff in Montgomery. The event was hosted by Brantwood Children’s Home in Montgomery.
New for this year, the River Region United Way partnered with [...]

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Friday afternoon, Dana Rickman and I had the pleasure of attending the Birmingham East Rotary Club meeting. We were invited to speak about Camp ASCCA by one of our current board members, Mr. Ron Layne.
The meeting was held at St. Vincent’s [...]

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Rotary is a very important organization to Camp ASCCA. One of Rotary’s motto’s is “service above self”. The service that the Montgomery Sunrise Rotary Club and its members have given to others is incredible. Once again, this Rotary Club has helped [...]

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As I’ve written before, our staff members having been visiting award recipients who have been selected by Camp ASCCA staff and volunteers for their generous contributions made in the 2007 year.
While visiting with Rep. Betty Carol Graham this [...]

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Hello Campers and Parents! You know I like to keep in touch in the off-season, so let me tell you about my experience at the BUDS Walk in Huntsville this past weekend. Read more here from the The Huntsville Times.
As I exited from my Vehicle, [...]

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Fall is upon us and that means news from camps gone by … and news of more camp sessions. This weekend, for instance, we have Partlow coming to ASCCA. Also, we’ll enjoy a visit from the Auburn [...]

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Hello, I’m just letting you know that there are many changes going on with the entire Camp ASCCA Web site.
Right now, you may encounter some errors along the way, so please don’t panic on us. I ask for your patience as [...]

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Mr. Jim Yerkey of Dadeville, was honored Tuesday night with an award from Easter Seals Camp ASCCA. John Stephenson, Camp Administrator, presented Yerkey with an “Ina Watson Special Appreciation Award” for his long-time volunteerism and support of the camp. This [...]

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Kivi Leroux Miller’s Nonprofit Communications blog drew the Camp ASCCA assignment for this session of the Nonprofit Blog Exchange Virtual Event. Luckily, we got the assignment for Kivi’s blog, too.
Emily at the Nonprofit Blog Exchange assigned the Camp ASCCA Journal [...]

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For your driving pleasure, or just for the fun of it, we have the new Google map of Camp ASCCA Jackson’s Gap and Dadeville.
The map may be accessed directly by following this link to Google maps, [...]

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The 2007-2008 Camp ASCCA Seasonal Application, for weekends and other camps, is now available. You may download it here. After you download it, please go check out our upcoming weekends!
Not to be outdone with that, we [...]

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As summer kicks off, we want to introduce you to the PR interns that will be bringing you all the videos and photographs in the ASCCA Journal.
…ASCCA interns gain valuable work related skills that will serve them well past [...]

 

 Cathy Cochran - Summer PR Intern 2007 [2:10m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (246)

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For the longest time I’ve wanted a full blown newsroom for the Camp ASCCA site. Well, we actually already had one newsroom, but it wasn’t all that I hoped for … so, I built a [...]

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Facebook is an interesting social media community. For ASCCA’s interests of connecting with college students, it seems like the natural community to engage. ASCCA wants college students to work as counselors, program staff and for internships. [...]

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Once again, an ASCCA camper is in the news. Toyki King, of Winn, AL, was featured in an a South Alabamian article recently.
The article focuses on Toyki’s acceptance into the CCARC, Clarke County Association for Retarded Citizens. You can follow this [...]

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While we’re considering nonprofit related blogs, I wanted to to share this recent find - an excellent example.
From Oakland, California, we discover a great site. This one will be particularly interesting for [...]

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Hey, everyone! My name is Maggie England, and I am the new intern here at Camp ASCCA. Home to me is a small city in the Mississippi Delta named Greenville. I decided I wanted to work at Camp after [...]

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Fun find in blog world. David Johnston is the “Paddling Instructor” from Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
David is an Instructor Trainer with Paddle Canada and teaches at several paddling schools around Ontario. David has been kayaking for for just under 15 years.
I’m [...]

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Happy New Year!!
…Camp ASCCA wishes you a Happy New Year as 2007 begins…
Camp ASCCA hopes you have a safe and happy 2007. There’s lots of work to be done around camp and the staff has big plans for [...]

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David Brain, President and CEO Edelman (Public Relations) Europe, has a fun sixty second (or so) video blog. SixtySecondView.com. If all these large PR firms, worldwide, are embracing blogging and social media, it makes [...]

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For some time, we’ve been talking about the natural fit between nonprofits and blogging, video blogging and podcasts.
…social media, like blogs and podcasting, are a natural fit for nonprofits…
Still, it is often difficult to convince some people. Fortunately, Camp [...]

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For the latest on the 2007 Public Relations Internship - or PR work experience, visit the PR Internship page and consider working with Camp ASCCA this summer. Your work experience with ASCCA does not have to be an internship, [...]

 

 Three Counselors from Europe [4:55m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1904)

 

 First Time Counselor Megan Killion [1:07m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (838)

 

 Case Luker - Male Head Counselor [5:26m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2021)

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The front page of ASCCA’s site is going through a redesign.
…WordPress widgets allow for simple layout and content insertion on your Web site or blog…
We’re trying to create a simpler, cleaner navigation layout that helps you find what you’re looking for on [...]

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