Pack Committee Member - training opportunities:

Required for all Scouters:

Y01 - Youth Protection Training (on-line)

This 45 minute Youth Protection Training course is an excellent overview to help insure the safety of youth in a unit. It teaches how Scouting works with parents to teach Scouts about abuse avoidance. It covers physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and neglect, and helps adult Scouting volunteers identify signs of potential abuse. It also provides guidelines for reporting abuse.

The course also includes with discipline in units, including adult leader responsibility, involving parents, establishing a code of conduct, being clear about expectations and consequences, providing activities with a purpose, and avoiding adolescent power struggles.

This interactive online course features case studies to review how BSA Youth Protection might be violated. The course ends with a 25 question test on Youth Protection, with a minimum 80% score required for Youth Protection certification. A leader’s Youth Protection certificate is valid for two years, after which the course must be retaken.

Required for your Scouting position:

C60 – Pack Committee Member Specific Training

This training has been developed to give new leaders the knowledge and skills, as well as generate the enthusiasm, that they need to be successful. It is made up of three parts. The first part is an introduction to Scouting and to the Cub Scout Pack. New leaders learn about the Cub Scouting organization and the essential elements of the Cub Scout program. The second part is a module on how Cub Scouts have fun in the Pack and Den. In this unit, the Cub Scout leader will learn about the different things that make Cub Scouting fun for all.

In the final module, pack committee members learn the role of the pack committee and the different ways that the committee supports the Pack. Areas discussed include finance, communications, outings, membership, advancement and Friends of Scouting. The committee learns about its relationship with the Cubmaster, Den Leaders, Pack Trainer and Chartering Organization, and how a Commissioner can help their unit. Planning and budgeting, and the yearly planning cycle are discussed.

Optional Courses:

CF-4 - Pack Committee Fast Start (on-line)

Pack Committee Fast Start takes 10 minutes online, this is a very good overview of the role of the Pack Committee in running the Pack. We recommend that all Cub Scouters take this module as part of their Fast Start sequence, to help them better understand Cub Scouting.

Topics covered include the basics of Scouting (Scouting is a game with a purpose, and the purpose is to prepare boys to become better adults), monthly pack committee meetings and the annual Pack Planning Conference, roles of Pack Committee Members and other adults in the Pack, and recommended resources (Scouting magazine, Cub Scout Leader Book, Program Helps, Roundtable and the Unit Commissioner).

Note: this Fast Start course references the “New Leader Essentials” training. That course has been replaced with the online “This is Scouting” course.

To be a “Trained” leader, you also need to take the in-person course C-60 “Cub Pack Committee Member Specific Training.” This course includes a module for your position in Cub Scouting. The “Cub Scout Leaders’ Specific” course is offered several times a year in our council.

A01 - This is Scouting (on-line)

“This is Scouting” is a great 50 minute overview of Scouting. It has hundreds of images of fun Scouting activities, showing Cub, Boy and Venture Scouting. “This is Scouting” is a great video not only for Scouters, but for parents of Scouts. You may want to direct parents to the site for this overview. It will help them understand what Scouting is all about. Parents do not need a BSA membership number to create a MyScouting e-learning account. They can log into MyScouting e-learning to take the course. (If they later become a registered Scouter, they should notify your Pack Trainer or the Scout office that they have taken “This is Scouting” to get training credit.)

Topics covered include: the mission, values and vision of Scouting, the advancement program, different Scouting programs for young people ages 7-20, type and level of adult involvement in different phases of Scouting, what youth and adults get out of being in Scouting, how to provide a fun program for youth and adults, outdoors, community service, and Youth Protection.

A90 - Wood Badge

Upon completion of Leader-Specific Training, an adult is eligible to attend the course Wood Badge for the 21st Century. Over two three-day weekends, Scouters, assigned to patrols, participate in intensive leadership and team development training. Once the training is complete, the practical portion begins: completing the Wood Badge ticket. Over a period up to eighteen months, participants complete various Scouting projects which they have designed. Skills and concepts covered by the course include: Bringing the Vision to Life, Models for Success, Tools of the Trade, Leading to Make a Difference and Living the Values. Wood Badge draws upon the most current leadership models being used by corporate America, academic circles and successful outdoor leadership organizations throughout the country.

C32 – Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation “BALOO”

BALOO is an 8-hour training designed for leaders and parents to learn a little more about the Cub Scout outdoor program. This one-day course emphasizes planning, equipment, cooking, campfire planning, campfire safety, nature hikes and games. BALOO is conducted out-of-doors. At least one member of the Pack must be BALOO trained before a Pack is granted a tour permit and permission to conduct its own overnight campout. A BALOO trained Scouter must be in attendance at the event.

C30 – Cub Scout Leader Pow Wow

A Pow Wow is a council sponsored event designed to be a day of learning, while having fun. It is a single day packed with a year’s worth of fun, games, songs, skits and new information for adults who want to provide the best Scouting program for their boys. Participants also have the chance to meet Scouters from all over the council and complete supplemental training.

ScoutParents Unit Coordinator Fast Start (on-line)

This new unit position is a liaison between parents and the unit. The ScoutParents Unit Coordinator works to get parents more involved in the unit. Other duties involve providing an orientation on how the unit works, and keeping parents updated on upcoming unit activities and events. The Fast Start for ScoutParents Unit Coordinator can be accessed under the “General” tab in MyScouting e-learning.

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