Council Executive Board 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:

D71 – Council Officer/Board Orientation – (Currently not offered in SE Wisconsin Council)

Orientation for councils officers and executive board members. Used by local councils to enhance the effectiveness of their officers and board members usually after the election of new officers and as a part of the orientation of new board members.

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.

Five Star University of Scouting

This is a cooperative training venture of five councils serving Wisconsin and part of Illinois. This conference provides continuing education for commissioners working at the unit, roundtable, district and council levels and all volunteer Scouters. Courses are designed for all experience levels.

Lord Baden Powell University of Scouting

This is a cooperative training venture of Illinois and Wisconsin councils, offered at Camp Wonderland in the Fox River District. This conference provides continuing education for commissioners, district and council operations, membership, Scoutcraft skills, Venture crew courses and communications and teaching technique courses. Website: http://lbpuniv.org

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