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Let's get it started ... building a young professionals group: young professionals.

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You've just attended one of the many springtime American Camp Association (ACA) conferences. You connected with other Young Professionals (YPs) like yourself--others who are students today, working as camp counselors and supervisors, and planning to be the camp administrators of tomorrow. Others who are changing positions, organizations, and their minds faster than change can actually happen. You may have attended a session on the needs of YPs or a YP welcome meeting. You realized that YPs need resources, support, and connections to help us fly ahead into the future. And you thought to yourself, "We need a Young Professionals Group in our area!"

But Where Do You Start?

I found myself asking this question after attending the April 2005 CampWest conference. At the conference, a forum was held concerning the needs of YPs in the western states. Needs discovered at this forum included:

* Networking opportunities

* Cheaper options for membership and events attendance

* Access to resources to develop camps (i.e., program, training, and facilities)

Seeing the energy and enthusiasm of seventy-five plus so-called YPs inspired me to ask the question, "What are we going to do now?" Now that we know what YPs need and want, should we just sit around and wait until summer is over? No way! Immediately, I sat down with Dot Mains, the ACA Southern California-Hawaii YP representative, and made a plan to conduct events in San Diego using the information gathered at the forum.

Dot...

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