Training Is IMPORTANT Because Every Youth Deserves a Trained Leader

The volunteer leader training materials have been updated for the Boy Scouts of America. The result is a seamless training program that helps leaders easily graduate through the courses quickly and with little duplication. The package provides the district training committee with tools to achieve 100 percent trained unit volunteers. It begins with the existing Fast Start training, continues through New Leader Essentials, followed by leader-specific training for each adult's role in the unit.

Here is a brief overview of the components of the training continuum:

• Cub Scout Fast Start Training
  This is the new Fast Start training for Cub Scouting . This is the first step for any new volunteer and should be taken immediately after a new leader registers and before he or she meets with any youth.
  
  
• Boy Scout Fast Start Training
  
  
• Venturing Fast Start Training
  
  
• Youth Protection On-Line Training
  On-Line Youth Protection Training is a valuable resource, although our Council recommends that your first option be administered face to face with a Trained District Facilitator. For more information click on About Us on the Main Page go to District Services and find more information about training from your District web-site.
  
  
• Venturing Adult Youth Protection Training
  This link is to the Boy Scouts of America National web-site. The Training gives adults involved in the Venturing Program tools to help them protect youth members in their Crew along with other valuable resources.
  
  
• Spanish Youth Protection On-Line Training
  
  
• Basic Leader Training
  The new Basic Leader Training is comprised of two parts: New Leader Essentials, for all unit-level leaders, and New Leader Specific Training, based on the leader's unit-level position.
  
  Basic Leader Training is designed for maximum flexibility. The sessions can be delivered over time - training on one or more evenings a week or month - or in a one-day training event that incorporates all program areas. It is suitable for large or small groups and may be presented to leaders of one or more units each time. Each district may decide the appropriate delivery method, keeping in mind that the focus is to remove roadblocks and achieve 100 percent trained leaders.
  
  
• New Leader Essentials
  New Leader Essentials is an introductory session that highlights the values, aims, history, funding and methods of Scouting. It addresses how these aims and methods are reached in an age-appropriate style within Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Varsity Scouting and Venturing. Videos, discussions, and hands-on reinforcement are presented during the 90-minute training session. Ideally, all unit-based volunteers - Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Varsity Scout, and Venturing leaders - take this session at the same time, so they understand that they are all striving for the same results with the youth they serve. Each leader completes New Leader Essentials training only once.
  
  
• Benefits of New Leader Essentials
  1. Better assists our movement in implementing the full Scouting program with chartered organizations.
  2. Provides a better understanding of the advantages of encouraging youth and adult volunteers to move through the traditional program as their youth mature.
  3. Creates an awareness of the different aspects of the Scouting program, which may result in leaders taking advantage of those programs for a child in a different age group.
  
  
• New Leader Specific Training
  Once a volunteer has a solid overview of the Boy Scouts of America's values-based program, they can then begin training for their specific Scouting position through Leader Specific Training. This training provides the specialized knowledge a new leader needs to assume a leadership role. Because each course is designed for a specific leadership position, the training time varies. Leader Specific Training has been developed for the following positions and their assistants:
  - Tiger Cub den leaders
  - Cub Scout den leaders
  - Webelos den leaders
  - Cubmasters
  - Pack committee members
  - Scoutmasters
  - Troop committee members
  - Venturing committee members
  - Venturing Advisors
  
  
• Cub Scout Leader Specific Training
  For Tiger Cub den leaders, Cub Scout den leaders, Webelos den leaders, Cubmasters, pack committee members. Training can be completed in one day or two or three evenings. The leader is considered trained when he or she has completed New Leader Essentials and the Leader Specific Training.
  
  
• Boy Scout Leader Specific Training
  For Scoutmasters and assistant Scoutmasters. The training is divided into four parts. The first three parts concentrate on troop operation and can be completed in one full day or three evenings. The final part, which focuses on outdoor skills, lasts approximately a day and a half, depending on the skill level of the new leader. The leader is considered trained when he or she has completed New Leader Essentials, Leader Specific Training and Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills. For troop committee members. Troop committee training consists of the Troop Committee Challenge, which can be completed in three hours. A troop committee member is considered trained after the completion of New Leader Essentials and the Troop Committee Challenge.
  
  
• Venturing Leader Specific Training
  For Venturing Advisors, assistant Advisors, crew committee members. Training incorporates Venturing's current adult leader training. It can be completed in approximately one day, along with New Leader Essentials. A Venturing leader is considered trained upon the completion of New Leader Essentials and Venture Leader training.
  
  
• Impact of "Seamless" Training
  - Increased awareness of all aspects of the Scouting program for youth.
  - An understanding that the Scouting program at all levels has the same values and aims for youth.
  - The values and aims are delivered in an age-appropriate program, utilizing proven methods.
  - An ease and conveyance to leaders as they move from one program to another.
  - Potential increase in membership in other programs, as leaders learn more about what is available in the full Scouting program.
  
  
• Wood Badge Wood Badge will evolve to be the core leadership skills training course for the Boy Scouts of America. The new Wood Badge course is less focused on outdoor skills - which are addressed in Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills and Powder Horn training - but will instead strengthen every volunteer's ability to work with and lead groups of youth and adults.
  
  
• Unit Media Training
  Learn effective techniques to get your Scouting unit in the news. This guide will give you helpful hints about writing press releases, taking photographs, contacting your local news mediums and much more!
  
  
• Camping and Outdoor Program Trainings
  There are many program trainings available ranging from Archery to Project COPE and Cub World. Click here to go to the Camping Page for more information.
  
  
• Kodiak Training
  Kodiak will be held at Clements Scout Ranch March 24-26 and March 31 to April 2 2006. See flyer for details.