🔒 To access password protected resources, email office@mainecamps.org.

⭐ Represents resources in their most up-to-date version as of today, regardless of publication date.

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Resources Archive

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MSC/MYCA Specific Resources

• ⭐⏯️MSC/MYCA Semi-Annual Meeting – 3.20.2025 🔒

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Legal/Legislative/Related to Licensing

Please review the Maine State Resource page for the proposed 208 rule for summer 2025 and more.

• ⭐⏯️MYCA Membership Update on 208 Rules – 3.3.2025 🔒
• Maine Paid Family Medical Leave Act Update by Newell Augur, Esq., Pierce Atwood – 12.12.24 🔒
• ⭐DHHS Licensing Rules Relating To Camps That Rent Lodging Memo by Curtis Thaxter – 06.04.2020
• Camper Application Elements Memo by Curtis Thaxter 🔒

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Additional Compliance

• ⭐Employment Memo in Employment section below
• ⭐2025 Transportation Memo by Curtis Thaxter – 4.7.2025 🔒
• ⭐⏯️12 Angry Camp Directors Webinar – 04.11.2024🔒

Resources A to Z

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Boating

• ⭐Lake Etiquette For Motorized Boating Camp Staff by the MYCA Board – 08.2024

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Business Resources for Camps

• Workforce Development Compact
  • ⭐⏯️Alfond Compact Information Session 🔒
  • Maine Workforce Development Web Page

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Climate Change

• 2025 Winter Workshop: Summer Camps & Climate Change – January 29, 2025 (Click linked name for presenter slides.)
  • Dr. Casey Ivanovich, Post-doctoral Fellow and Climate Scientist at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies 🔒
  • Colin Holme, Executive Director of the Lakes Environmental Association 🔒
  • Shane Duigan, District Forester for the Maine Forest Service 🔒
  • Dr. Casey Ivanovich, Closing Encouragement 🔒

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Health

Measles

• Measles Prevention and Preparedness Tips for Camps by American Camp Association – 05.2025
• Elevating Care Weekly: Edition 03 | On Measles by Alliance for Camp Health – 04.21.2025
• Division of Disease Surveillance: Measles by Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention

Medication Management: Delegation to and training for unlicensed people.

• https://allianceforcamphealth.org/education-and-resources/medication-management/ This is the link to the Alliance for Camp Health website. The two bullet points below point are two of many resources found on the ACH site.
  • Delegation to Unlicensed Assistive Personnel – ACH Practice Guideline
  • Medication Management Training for Unlicensed People – Alliance for Camp Health

Tick and Lyme

• Affordable Health Care Act – Info for Camps
• Public Lyme 2023
• Public Lyme 2022
• 2020 Tick Update
• Tick Poster
• Tick Caution Sign
• Lyme & Other Vector-born Disease Info
• Lyme Disease Info From Maine Center for Disease Control

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Emergency Preparedness and Kinetic Threat

• CISA (Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, U.S. Department of Homeland Security) Resources by Talis and Jacob “Jake” Kocek, Maine Protective Security Advisors. – 4.25.2024
• Resources for Talking with Children about Tragedy, Death, and Mass Shootings – 10.26.2023
• Summer Camp Hazard Risk Assessment – 07.07.2010
• Summer Camp Emergency Prep Quick Guide – 07.07.2010
• Sample Emergency Plan for School – 07.07.2010

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Employment

• ⭐2025 Employment Memo by Curtis Thaxter – 4.14.2025 🔒
• ⏯️Department of Labor Webinar – 5.12.2025🔒
• 2024 Employment Memo by Curtis Thaxter – 04.2024 🔒

 

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Risk Management

• ⏯️Staying Ahead Risk Management Webinar with Chalmers Camp Insurance – 3.3.2025 🔒

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