Pack Trainer - 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:

C62 – Pack Trainer Training

This training has been developed to give new leaders the knowledge and skills, as well as generate 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 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 Trainers learn about their role in encouraging other pack leaders to get training, providing orientation to new families in the Pack, keeping track of training records, and working with the District Training Committee. They gain an overview of all council training offerings.

Optional Courses:

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.

"Tell me and I'll forget...Show me and I may remember... Involve me and I will understand." - Ben Franklin