ARK for camps and youth programs
Camps are named directly in most states' authorized-entity laws, usually in the same list as restaurants, youth sports leagues and amusement parks. Your state's page says which applies. What makes a camp different is the calendar: staff turn over every season, so whoever is trained in July may not be the person who was trained last July, and the medication has to be findable by someone in their first month on site. ARK is an epinephrine storage cabinet for a camp wall: marked in red at reading distance, tamper-resistant but never locked, and open in one motion.
Why a stock supply matters at camp
One in thirteen children has a food allergy, one or two in a group of twenty.1 More than forty percent of children with food allergies have already had a severe reaction.1 Campers arrive with allergies their parents disclosed and, sometimes, with ones nobody knew about. A stock supply covers the second case, and a cabinet on the wall is how the counselor nearest the reaction reaches it.
What your state allows camps
Public-place stocking: where things stand
| Permitted[PERMITTED] | 36 |
|---|---|
| No law[NO LAW] | 10 |
| Unconfirmed[UNCONFIRMED] | 4 |
| Required[REQUIRED] | 1 |
Counts are read from our dataset at build time, last verified 2026-08-28. Every jurisdiction links to its citation and source.
How to get it for your camp
The prescription
Written in your organization's name, not a named person's. That is what makes the supply undesignated: it belongs to the building, not to one child.
The standing order
Two states hand a camp this second document: Utah and Wisconsin. Everywhere else a prescriber signs one for you, and most will.
The devices
Purchase under your state entity law. The free manufacturer programs cover K-12 schools only, so camps buy standard auto-injectors through a pharmacy or medical supplier. Buy before staff week rather than after, so the medication is on the wall when the first campers arrive.
A precision point worth knowing
Several states made schools device-neutral while leaving the entity law auto-injector-only. Colorado, Idaho, Minnesota and Illinois all split this way, so a school down the road may be able to stock nasal spray when you cannot. The map carries the distinction; check the row that governs you.
Two states hand a camp its standing order
Register with the health department there instead of finding a prescriber. See which ones.
Where it goes at camp
The health office first, then the dining hall, because that is where food is served to a few hundred people at once. After that, wherever staff are furthest from the health office: the waterfront, the main field, the trailhead. If your camp has an AED, put ARK beside it.
The cabinet
$85 per cabinet, volume pricing available. Tamper-resistant but not locked, fits EpiPen, Auvi-Q, neffy and most other brands, with a tamper-evident safety strap included.
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