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Training Course
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Course Description
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Fast Start / Orientation
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The Boy Scouts of America has a new Online Learning Center. In due time this new learning center will become the gateway to all of the BSA's online training resources. Registered members of the BSA may provide their member numbers (as part of the user profile) to receive credit for completing these courses online. Any registered member of the BSA may create a user account and view the courses. These courses are designed to help members develop skills crucial to fulfilling their leadership roles in Scouting.
Fast Start Training is your first training course. Should be taken immediately after registering, and before meeting with any youth member. Take this course online by visiting the BSA Online Learning Center.
Visit the BSA Online Learning Center
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Basic Leader Training
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Basic Leader Training comprises two parts:
- New Leader Essentials for all unit-level leaders
- Leader Specific training, based on the leader's unit-level position.
Basic Leader Training is designed for maximum flexibility. The sessions can be delivered over time—training on one or more evenings a week or month—or in a one-day training event that incorporates all program areas. It is suitable for large or small groups and may be presented to leaders of one or more units each time. Each council and district may decide the appropriate delivery method, keeping in mind that the focus is to remove roadblocks and achieve 100 percent trained leaders.
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New Leader Essentials
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New Leader Essentials: As the first section of Basic Leader Training, New Leader Essentials is a 90-minute introductory session that highlights the values, aims, history, funding, and methods of Scouting and provides new leaders with a look at the resources available to them. New Leader Essentials need only be taken once.
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Leader Specific Training
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Leader Specific Training: Once a volunteer has a solid overview of the BSA's values-based program, he or she can begin training for a specific Scouting position through Leader Specific training. 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:
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| Leader Specific Training |
Time Needed
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| Tiger Cub den leaders |
~ 3 hours
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| Cub Scout den leaders |
~ 3 hours
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| Webelos den leaders |
~ 3 hours
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| Cubmasters and assistants |
~ 3 hours
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| Pack committee members |
~ 3 hours
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| Scoutmasters and assistants |
~ 8 hours
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| Troop Committee Challenge for troop committee members |
~ 3 hours
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| Venturing crew Advisors |
~ 5 hours
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| Venturing crew committee members |
~ 5 hours
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Visit the Online Learning Center
Youth Protection Training is found under the "General" tab.
"It may be the most important contribution you make in the life of your child."
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Youth Protection Training
 Youth Protection Training has been revised and is now available in the BSA Online Learning Center. Once you have entered the Online Learning Center the new Youth Protection Training is found under the "General" tab.
The new Youth Protection Training is presented in four segments. The main goal of this course is to prepare you to confidently apply the Youth Protection Policies in many different interactive situations that may arise in your day-to-day experience in the Scouting program. The "Course Introduction" discusses how through our standards, guidelines, and training, we work with you toward a safer world for our children. The "Policies" segment focuses on how our guidelines are designed to prevent the four elements necessary for child sexual abuse to occur. The segment on "Recognizing & Reporting Abuse" brings into focus the categories of child abuse and how to recognize the abuse. Reporting requirements and policies are also covered in this segment. The final segment on "Scenarios" presents interactive situations to which you are asked to respond. Depending on your response different outcomes are presented.
A new focus is placed on how to effectively utilize the resources and policies of the BSA in this new version of the Youth Protection Training. The successful completion of this course will automatically be recorded in your personal Scouting record maintained by the BSA. In addition you will be able to print out a card certifying your completion of the training similar to the one below.
We can expect more great training courses to be presented in the Online Learning Center. By taking the new Youth Protection Training you will become current in your knowledge and become familiar with how the process of learning by online training works.
Visit the Online Learning Center
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Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills
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Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills: Instructors of this outdoor session will bring to life the pages of the Boy Scout Handbook to help deliver the promise of Scouting to yourself and the youth you serve. It will increase your comfort level and give your confidence as a trained leader. The program will also give you the opportunity to work with other Scout leaders from your area, meet new friends, and reinforce skill techniques with fellow unit leaders. "Introduction to Outdoor Leadership Skills," teaches the skills required for the Tenderfoot, Second Class, and First Class ranks. Because emphasis is placed on a leader's previous knowledge of the skill rather than course attendance, a new leader can complete this course at an accelerated pace.
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The Training Subjects Include:
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| First Aid |
Fire Site Preparation and Building |
| Campsite selection |
Cooking |
| Whipping, Tying, Lashing Ropes |
Plant Identification |
| Campfire Program |
Animal Identification |
| Opening Flag Ceremonies |
Packing and Hiking Techniques |
| Interfaith Worship |
Map and Compass Reading |
| Leave No Trace |
Woods Tools- Knife, Saw, and Ax |
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Outdoor Leader Skills for Webelos Leaders
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Outdoor Leader Skills for Webelos Leaders: Webelos den campouts serve to move the Webelos Scout to the next level of the BSA's ever-increasing challenge in the outdoors. The boy and his parent will be introduced to the basics of Boy Scout camping. A trained Webelos den leader who has completed position-specific training and Outdoor Leader Skills for Webelos Leaders should conduct these events. Webelos dens are encouraged to participate in joint den-troop campouts, particularly in the fifth-grade year.
Designed specifically for Webelos den leaders and their assistants, the Outdoor Leader Skills for Webelos Leaders course teaches outdoor-related skills through demonstration and hands-on practice. Webelos den leaders should attend this training before conducting Webelos overnight camping with the boys and parents of the den. In addition to covering basic camping skills, this training features planning campouts and finding resources.
The council and/or district usually offer Outdoor Leader Skills for Webelos Leaders several times each year. Check with your pack trainer, unit commissioner, district training chair, or local council service center for dates and locations.
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Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation
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Basic Adult Leader Outdoor Orientation (BALOO) is a one-day training event that introduces leaders and parents to the skills needed to plan and conduct pack outdoor activities, particularly pack camping.
Participants who complete this training course will
- Understand the focus of the Cub Scout level of the BSA outdoor program.
- Gain the skills needed to plan and carry out a successful Cub Scout-level overnight activity.
- Learn more about the resources available from the BSA for carrying out this activity.
This training is required for any adult who is in charge of planning a pack campout.
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Safe Swim Defense
& Safety Afloat
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Aquatics Training: Computer-based Safe Swim Defense and Safety Afloat has been developed and is now available for councils to include in their Web sites. The present version does not report back to the local council or update the member's training records to indicate they have completed the training. Such features may be added in a future version.
Available online by clicking - HERE |
Troop Leadership Training
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Troop Leadership Training: Training youth to be leaders is an ongoing process that begins immediately when a Scout accepts a new position in the troop —even that of becoming a new member of a patrol —or when he is elected to a leadership position in his patrol or troop. Troop Leadership Training (TLT) is Scoutmaster - directed training, divided into three modules and designed to be used by the Scoutmaster in separate or back-to-back sessions. The first module should be conducted within a week of a Scout's acceptance of his new leadership responsibilities and should always immediately follow patrol and troop elections. Each youth leader should have experienced all three modules before going to the council sponsored National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) course. Completion of all three modules qualifies the Scout to wear the Trained patch. Scoutmasters should insist that a Scout participate in TLT each time he changes leadership roles within the troop or his patrol. |
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National Youth
Leadership Training
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Brownsea National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is an exciting, action packed program designed to provide youth members of the Boy Scouts of America with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops. The leadership skills taught can be used in any other situation demanding leadership of "self" and "others." This process begins with a "vision" of what success will look like in the future. |
Trainer Development
Conference
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Trainer Development Conference: Scouters responsible for training may be members of district or council training teams who train leaders in Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Varsity Scouting, and Venturing. They may also be Scouters who train commissioners and district committees. They may be pack trainers. The Trainer Development Conference is designed to develop and improve the skills of both veteran and prospective trainers. Youth and adults are equally welcome.
The Trainer Development Conference incorporates numerous contemporary training techniques and emphasizes the importance of experiential learning, or “learning by doing.” In most instances,the training sessions not only demonstrate good training methods, but give participants an opportunity to interact and practice what they have learned. An ongoing learning activity, the “BSA 500”game, is featured and used continuously throughout the conference to emphasize and reinforce the experiential learning.
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Wood Badge
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Wood Badge: 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. Offered over two weekends, plus two patrol meetings between weekends. Wood Badge fact sheet.
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National Training Conferences
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National Training Conferences
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 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.
See the Philmont Web site for additional information.
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Whether you have been in Scouting for many years or are just starting out, the Boy Scout Leader Assessment Tool is for you. The online assessment will help Scouters of all experience levels discover opportunities to refresh their understanding of Scouting and determine how to update their skills. Specifically, the Boy Scout Leader Assessment Tool will.