Youth Member Training
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Cub Scout
- Includes information for parents, as well as the video It Happened to Me (AV-09DVD11)
- Materials are for use in pack and den meetings to show Cub Scouts and their parents what boys should do to prevent abuse from happening to them.
Boy Scout/Varsity Scout
- Online training for Boy Scouts and Venturers appointed as den chiefs
- Identifies den chief responsibilities and tasks
- Describes the den chief’s relationship to the adult den leaders
- At the conclusion of this training, den chiefs are encouraged to participate in the one-day den chief training conference (No. 34450).
- Combines the elements of leadership and service to others
- This course is taught in conjunction with a trek or a trip.
- A weeklong, outdoor program designed for councils to provide youth members with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops.
- A weeklong, Philmont-based wilderness encounter that motivates Scouts to follow a life of helping others succeed.
- Introduces the “three R’s” of Youth Protection
- Should be viewed by troops annually
- Video and meeting guide are available at www.scouting.org.
- An introduction to leadership skills
- A three-module training course conducted by the Scoutmaster and senior patrol leader
Venturing
- For all Venturing crew members
- Covers specific leadership skills in program planning, money-earning, and effective committees
- Primarily for Venturing youth who are officers in their Venturing crew
- Can be used by adult leaders to learn the duties of the officers in the crew
- For youth officers to understand their roles and responsibilities as related to crew officer briefings and seminars
- Develop an annual plan of activities for the crew
- Acquire leadership and team-building skills
- Introduction to leadership skills
- Designed to be used by Advisors to teach leadership skills to all Venturers in the crew
- Completion of this course is a requirement for the Venturing Silver Award.
- Conducting the course is a requirement for the Venturing Advisor Award of Merit.
- Combines the elements of leadership and service to others as the two key tenets of Venturing
- This course is taught in conjunction with a trek or a trip.
- The final step in Venturing’s Nature of Leadership series
- A weekend leadership challenge course designed to test a Venturer’s leadership skills learned in Kodiak
- Online training for Venturers and Boy Scouts appointed as den chiefs
- Identifies den chief responsibilities and tasks
- Describes the den chief’s relationship to the adult den leaders
- At the conclusion of this training, den chiefs are encouraged to participate in the one-day den chief training conference (No. 34450).
- Covers acquaintance rape, peer sexual harassment, suicide, and Internet safety
For more information on youth training opportunities, go to www.scouting.org/Training/Youth.