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Cub Scout Leader Training

This page presents a brief description of some of the training opportunities available for our adult volunteers. Even if you're not in a leadership position, these training opportunities can help make your and your son's cub scouting experience more enjoyable. Because every boy deserves a trained leader.

The following training is available on-line:

• Cub Scout New Leader Training (Cub Scout Leader Fast Start)
  As the first step in the training continuum, Fast Start Training is meant to provide all the information and resources for new leaders to conduct their first meeting, along with guidance for the meetings that follow. 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.
  Online Link to Cub Scout - Fast Start Leader Training (More Info)
  
  

• 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.
  BSA Youth Protection Training On-Line (More Info)
  
  

The following training is provided periodically by the District and Council. See the Calendar for scheduled sessions:

• 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
    
    
• 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.
  
  

• Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation (BALOO)
  Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation is a one-day training event that introduces the skills needed to plan and conduct pack outdoor activities. At least one BALOO-trained adult is required on every overnight outdoor activity.
  
  
• Outdoor Leader Skills for Webelos Leaders (OLS)
  Designed specifically for Webelos den leaders and their assistants, this course teaches outdoor-related skills through demonstration and hands-on practice. (It is open to any adult volunteers and is a lot of fun!)
  
  
• Wood Badge 
  The Wood Badge course is the highest level of core leadership skills training 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.
  
  

New Requirements for

Leader Emblem

All registered Cub Scout leaders must now complete the following four training courses to earn the Trained Leader emblem:

• Fast Start Training for their position (online or instructor-led)
• Youth Protection Training (online or instructor-led)
• Cub Scout Leader Specific Training (for their position, instructor-led)
• New Leader Essentials (instructor-led)

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.