Training
Every boy deserves a trained leader
and every leader deserves to be trained.
Fast Start
Training
The Cub Scout Fast Start video, No. AV-01V022, will help leaders
in their new roles. Cub Scout Fast Start Viewer Guide, No. AV-01G022,
is for study along with viewing the videotape. Every Cub Scout
pack needs to have its own video library and viewer guides to
provide immediate information for new Cub Scout leaders.
Online Fast Start (This link takes you to the BSA National site)
Cub Scout Leader Basic Training
Cub Scout Leader Basic Training is designed to fit your needs.
This four-hour training plan for all Cub Scout leaders is
provided by the district or council in either a one- or two-session
format.
More Information about Basic Training
Pack Leadership Enhancements
Leadership Enhancements are short training discussions held as
part of the monthly pack leaders' meeting and conducted by the
pack's own leaders. They help pack and den leaders become better
equipped to conduct a quality Cub Scout program. They can be
found in the 1997, or later, printing of the Cub Scout Leader
Book.
Quarterly Leadership Updates
Leadership Updates are a series of six supplemental training
opportunities conducted quarterly by the district (or council).
Each two-hour update supplements and expands upon information
that is only briefly covered in basic training.
Outdoor Webelos Leader Training (also known as OWL)
The Outdoor Webelos Leader Training provides specialized training
for Webelos leaders in outdoor skills and program.
This program will be changing in 2000 to BALOO.
Pow Wow
The Pow Wow is a Cub Scout leader's learning extravaganza! A big,
fun-filled experience where Cub Scout leaders increase their
knowledge, improve their skills, and gain enthusiastic attitudes
about Cub Scouting.
Roundtable
Roundtables are a form of commissioner service and supplemental
training for volunteers at the pack level. Roundtables give
volunteers examples for pack and den meetings; information on
policy, events, and training opportunities; ideas for crafts,
games, and ceremonies; and an opportunity to share experiences
and enjoy fun and fellowship. These meetings help volunteers
provide a stronger program for Cub Scouts.
Basic Training
WELCOME TO CUB SCOUTING
In Cub Scouting, leadership is
working with boys and their families, improving the life of your
community by enriching the lives of families who live in it. You
will be helping boys respect their homes and families, and you
will be helping families understand their boys by doing things
with them.
In this day and time when the family is becoming less and less
important to many people, you, as a Cub Scout leader, will be
taking a positive stand in support of the family. As inflation,
unemployment, crime, poor housing, and other factors cause stress
in families, you will be taking an active part in helping to
strengthen those families and the boys in them by providing a fun-filled
worthwhile program which has stood the test of time. Few
organizations in history have had the universal impact on the
family that can be claimed by Scouting. And you are an important
part of that impact today.
Successful leaders are people of character and honesty; people
with the ability to guide and influence boys; people with pep,
patience, tact, and a sense of humor; people who lie boys and
have a sense of purpose and direction. Now, before you become
alarmed and begin thinking: "I don’t have all those
qualities," just relax and read on. As all boys are
different, so are all leaders different. That’s the reason
for training - to teach leaders the skills and information they
need to work successfully with Cub Scouts.
If you have a son, or joined Cub Scouting because you like to
work with boys, then you already have a head start. If not, then
we can help you learn.
Why
Training?
Ages and
Stages
What is Cub
Scouting?
Pack
Organization
The Pack
Program
The Uniform
Advancement
Youth
Protection
Program and
Activities
Working
With Boys
Den
Administration
The Den
Program