ALOHA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA TRAINING

The journey from Fast Start to Wood Badge is a seamless progression for adults and an unending benefit for BSA youth. Fast Start Orientation and New Leader Essentials—the first two steps in new-leader training—introduce new leaders to the Boy Scouting program. Leader Specific Training, as the name implies, focuses on specific leader roles and will require several days to complete, depending on the individual's previous outdoor skills experience. Wood Badge has evolved into the premier leadership course of the BSA, strengthening a leader's ability to effectively work with groups of youth and adults.

Training Management

CLICK HERE FOR ALOHA COUNCIL LEADERSHIP TRAINING COMMITTEE POLICY

There are three types of training situations: group training, personal coaching, and self-study. Self Study would only be appropriate for new leaders who already have significant related experience and a qualified mentor who will ensure that new leaders acquire the specific skills they need to run a safe program with age appropriate activities.

If you need training please ask your Unit Commissioner, District Training Chair or District Executive to direct you to a scheduled course or to a qualified Council Trainer.

Council and District approved trainers will conduct all Training, record it on a Training Attendance Report, submit it to the Council Service Center, and arrange for appropriate recognition.

Required Training

The new Basic Leader Training program is the culmination of more than two years of work done by professionals and volunteers throughout the Nation. The result is a seamless training program that helps leaders easily and quickly graduate through the courses and with minimal duplication.

It begins with the existing Fast Start training, continues through New Leader Essentials, followed by Leader Specific training for each adult role in the unit and culminates with Wood Badge training.

Essential Leader Training

Fast Start Training

It begins with the existing Fast Start training, continues through New Leader Essentials, followed by Leader Specific training for each adult role in the unit and culminates with Wood Badge training.

Essential Leader Training

Fast Start Training
Fast start training provides an immediate comfort level for new leaders, enabling them to say, "I can do this!” Fast Start training is the first step for any new volunteer and should be taken immediately; preferably before meeting with any youth member.

Cub Scout, Boy Scout and Venture Fast Start Video Tapes and Viewing Guides are available to all new volunteers from the Council Service Center. Leaders can also complete Fast Start training on line by selecting from the following courses:

Basic Leader Training
The Basic Leader Training is comprised in two parts: New Leader Essentials for all adult leaders and Leader Specific training, which is based on the leader's position. Basic Leader Training is designed for maximum flexibility. The district training staff deliver the sessions. Some will be delivered over time, on one or more evenings, and some in a one-day session. New leaders may attend training sessions in any district, which is most convenient for the volunteer.

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. Ideally all volunteers - Cub Scout, Boy Scout and Venturing leaders - take this 90-minute course at the same time, so they understand that they are all striving for the same results with the youth they serve. Each leader needs to complete New Leader Essentials training but only once.

Leader Specific Training
Once volunteers have completed New Leader Essentials giving them an overview of the BSA program, they begin training for a specific Scouting position. 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/Assistant Scoutmasters
Troop committee members
Venturing Advisors
Venturing committee members
*Varsity Team Leaders
District committee members

*Includes Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills

Youth Protection Training
Scouting is a youth service organization and our first job must be to protect our youth members from injury and abuse. Scouting must be a safe and secure environment for everyone. All leaders, members of unit committees, and anyone working with young people need to know the facts and responsibilities of youth protection.

Youth Protection Training is a requirement for Quality Unit Awards. All adult volunteers are expected to complete Youth Protection training within 90 days of membership application. Youth Protection Training is required for all adults (over 18) participating in any National event with youth - National and World Jamborees, Philmont, Florida Sea Base, Northern Tier High Adventure base, etc. Youth Protection Training is required for all adults (over 18) participating in any "out of council" event or trip with youth.

Youth Protection is Everyone's Responsibility

Youth protection training is conducted several times a year throughout the council and is also available online.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ABOUT ONLINE TRAINING

available now

Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills
Outdoor skills for Scoutmasters and Varsity Coaches are part of the position specific Basic Leader training and critical to the success of the Scouting Program. The Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills will provide leaders with information on the basic outdoor skills needed to start the program correctly. Introduction to Outdoor Leaders Skills is required training for all Scoutmasters, assistant Scoutmasters, and Varsity Scout coaches. The skills taught are based on outdoor skills found in The Boy Scout Handbook. The course is a day and half long, but leaders can move at an accelerated pace by demonstrating mastery of a specific skill. The emphasis is on the skill, rather than attendance at the course.

District Committee Workshop
The District Committee Workshop meets the training needs of members of the district committees. The workshop is held annually and helps district Scouters coordinate and achieve the mission, goals and objectives of the council and district. This workshop and New Leader Essentials qualifies as basic training for district volunteers who are also interested in enrolling in Wood Badge.

Troop Committee Challenge

This fun and interactive training serves as a vital tool for new troop committee members as well as for veterans. The mission of the Troop Committee Challenge training is to help each troop committee work as a team to improve the Scouting experience for adult and youth members. It helps build the commitment of individual members as well as cultivates a better troop committee team.

http://olc.scouting.org/info/tcc.html

Wood Badge for the 21st Century

Upon completion of Leader Specific Training, an adult is eligible to attend Wood Badge for the 21st Century. As the core leadership skills training course for the BSA, Wood Badge focuses on strengthening every volunteer's ability to work with groups of youth and adults and is less focused on outdoor skills, which are more effectively addressed in other training courses.

Incorporating leadership concepts that are used in corporate America, the course teaches participants the basics of listening, communicating, valuing people, team development, situational leadership, problem solving, and managing conflict. Once the skill is learned, each member is given the opportunity to use the skill as a member of a successful working team. At the conclusion of the course, each participant develops a set of personal goals related to his or her Scouting role. Working toward these goals allows each participant to practice and demonstrate new skills.

Supplemental Leader Training

University of Scouting/Cub Scout Leader Pow Wow
Held in conjunction with the Cub Scout Leader Pow Wow, the University of Scouting offers a wide variety of supplemental training classes on all areas of Scouting. Pow Wow is the "How To Do It" training course for Cub Leaders. After completing Cub Leader Basic, this annual training course will show you how to do the planning, how to do skits, crafts, conducting games and more. Hands on and Fun.

Pacific College of Commissioner Science
Held once a year, the Pacific College of Commissioner Science offers advanced training and refresher courses for Unit Commissioners, Roundtable Commissioners, District Commissioners and Assistant District Commissioners.

BALOO - Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation
BALOO is a new course for one or more members of the Pack Committee. It teaches how to plan outdoor excursions and camping trips for Cub Scouts. In this course leaders will learn how to set up a safe and appropriate camping trip for Cub Scouts. At least one member of a Pack Committee must be BALOO trained in order for the Cub Scout Pack to be approved to go camping. A BALOO completion certificate must be attached to the Local Tour Permit.

OWL (or WLOT)- Outdoor Webelos Leader training (Or Webelos Leader Outdoor Training)
OWL/WLOT is a specialized course designed to give both new and experienced leaders a better understanding of the Webelos program and especially the outdoors program in preparation for the transition to Boy Scouting.

Philmont Training Center Conferences

CHECK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION (Link to http://www.scouting.org/philmont/

Serving as the only national volunteer training center for the Boy Scouts of America since 1950, the Philmont Training Center (PTC) provides a unique environment for the training of volunteer and professional leaders. Each year, more than 6,000 Scouters and family members attend PTC.

Each year Aloha Council will nominate interested Scouters in September to attend one of more of these conferences. If interested, please contact the Council Training Committee or let your District Training Committee Chair know you are interested.

Each conference features the latest tools and techniques, audiovisuals, discussions, idea sharing, and activities led by a faculty of experienced Scouters. Invitation to these conferences is upon recommendation of the local council or a national committee.

Leadership Training for Youth Members

Den Chief Training
This One Day course offers training for present and future Den Chiefs. Help your young leaders develop the skills they need to successfully serve in this important position.

Patrol Leader Training online
If you are a patrol leader, you'll want to catch a few good ideas about your job from this great online training course from the BSA.

PATROL LEADER TRAINING ONLINE

Youth Leadership Training Continuum Courses

The youth leadership training continuum is divided into three courses: The first course is Troop Leadership Training (TLT), which is designed to run frequently in a troop setting. The Scoutmaster and senior patrol leader will conduct this three-hour training whenever there are new Scouts or there has been a shift in leadership positions within the patrol or the troop.

The second course is the council-level, weeklong National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) course held at a Camp Pupukea each year. This course is an in-depth training covering a wide variety of leadership ideas and skills. It simulates a month in the life of a troop and uses fun and hands-on learning sessions to teach the concepts in the toolbox of leadership skills. The Scouts hone their understanding of service-based leadership as they undertake a patrol quest for the meaning of leadership.

The National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE) is an exciting new program that helps young men enhance their leadership skills in the Philmont backcountry. Scouts will expand upon the team building and ethical decision making skills learned in NYLT. NAYLE uses elements of Philmont Ranger training as well as advanced search-and-rescue skills to teach leadership, teamwork, and the lessons of selfless service. NAYLE offers Scouts an unforgettable backcountry wilderness experience where they live leadership and teamwork, using the core elements of NYLT to make their leadership skills intuitive.

Troop Leadership Training (TLT)

TLT is the leadership training given primarily by the Scoutmaster and the senior patrol leader to all the youth leaders in their troop. ALL Boy Scout troops should conduct the TLT course with every leadership shift—whether it is when the youth get a new troop position or a patrol leadership role, or when they welcome a new patrol member. The course has three one-hour modules that can be presented as individual one-hour sessions or as a combined three-hour block. Introduction to Troop Leadership should be conducted within a week of a Scout assuming a new leadership role and focuses on what a new leader must know. The Scoutmaster conducts this session for the senior patrol leader and new Scouts. He may then choose other Scouts or adults to help train the other troop leaders.

National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT)

Aloha Council encourages every Scoutmaster to nominate and promote NYLT to his eligible Scouts to attend before they become Senior Patrol Leaders. Scoutmasters can nominate any First Class or higher Scouts who are at least 13 or have completed seventh grade.

National Youth Leadership Training is an exciting, action-packed program designed for councils to provide youth members with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops and in other situations demanding leadership of self and others.

For many years, junior leader training (JLT) was an important part of the leadership training continuum of BSA local councils throughout America. In 2003 and 2004, a task force of leadership experts and hundreds of Scouts in pilot courses across the nation reviewed and tested every aspect of the new NYLT syllabus, which incorporates the latest leadership ideas and presents fresh, vital and meaningful training for today's Scouts.

The NYLT course centers around the concepts of what a leader must BE, what he must KNOW, and what he must DO. The key elements are then taught with a clear focus on HOW TO. Scouts learn a number of leadership skills and concepts summarized on the memory tips card. The youth learn about the stages of team development and how to match the most appropriate leadership style with the developmental stage of the individual or team. The course has many challenges for the youth, including its culmination where the skills come alive during the week as the patrol goes on a Quest for the Meaning of Leadership which they present to the NYLT troop.

The NYLT course simulates a month in the life of a troop. NYLT is a six-day course usually held at Camp Pupukea on Oahu’s North Shore. Content is delivered in a troop and patrol outdoor setting with an emphasis on immediate application of learning in a fun environment. Interconnecting concepts and work processes are introduced early, built upon, and aided by the use of memory aids, which allows participants to understand and employ the leadership skills much faster.

Built on the legacy of past JLT successes, the new NYLT integrates the best of modern leadership theory with the traditional strengths of the Scouting experience. Through activities, presentations, challenges, discussions, and audio-visual support, NYLT participants will be engaged in a unified approach to leadership that will give them the skill and confidence to lead well. Through a wide range of activities, games, and adventures, participants will work and play together as they put into action the best Scouting has to offer.

National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE)

The mission of National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience is to provide Scouts with a Philmont-based wilderness encounter that motivates them to follow a life of helping others succeed based on the values expressed in the Scout Oath and Law.

Aloha Council will be offering Camperships beginning in 2008 to selected youth ages 14-16 from NYLT who will commit to serving on our NYLT staff the next year as SPL or ASPL.

The Scouts experience such high-adventure activities as COPE, wilderness first aid, a high-level geo-cache hunt, conservation, Leave No Trace, and a search-and-rescue activity. This is complemented by learning the history and inspiration of the Philmont Scout Ranch as well as a personal journal that focuses on the Scout's leadership skills.

Philmont leadership is committed to making NAYLE a very special experience. The Scouts live in a patrol setting at Rocky Mountain Scout Camp where they use their leadership skills to resolve exciting and challenging backcountry situations. The week concludes with a closing challenge for each Scout to build upon the legacy of Waite Phillips, the benefactor of the Philmont Scout Ranch.

VIEW THE POWERPOINT