Eagle Scout Coach Training

University of Scouting is offering a class for Eagle Scout Coaches. We encourage all units to have a member of your Troop committee that helps Eagle Scouts, to attend one of two sessions. This class will help them work with scouts in preparing Eagle service project proposals and get them ready for the Eagle Coordinators to review. The date of University of Scouting is March 11, 2023. It is a full day of classes for all scout leaders to assist in offering an excellent scouting program to the youth. To register, go to the Council page and click Trainings, click University of Scouting and find out more about this great training event.

Outdoor Ethics Guide Course

 

LNT 101-Outdoor Ethics Guide Course
February 18, 2023 9 am-1 pm
Ogden Service Center
$12 per youth and adult

Leave No Trace is important as we strive to live by the Outdoor Code, follow the Scout Oath and Law, protect nature, and leave a good impression on others. The BSA-LNT 101 course is designed to give Scouts and Scouters the basic training and skills needed to be leaders in the outdoors and effectively practice the principles of Leave No Trace on all outings. Troop Outdoor Ethics Guides and Advisers are especially encouraged to attend but this course is for any Scouting youth (11+) or adult with an interest in learning how to be a better steward of the outdoors. (utahscouts.org)

Why should each troop or crew have an Outdoor Ethics Guide? The outdoor ethics guide is a troop position of responsibility that counts for the leadership requirement for Star, Life, and Eagle ranks. It was instituted in the 13th edition of the Scouts BSA Handbook. This replaces the role of the Leave No Trace trainer, which was also a Star and Life leadership position. Venturing crews may elect to assign the responsibility of outdoor ethics guide to a member, but it is not a leadership position. (scouting.org)
This training is a great opportunity to help your troop have fun responsibly in the outdoors, while fulfilling a leadership role for youth.

You can register for this training at utahscouts.org/lnt . If you have questions, please call/text Shanae Ames at 712-4755 or email at cachescrappers@gmail.com.

Inclusion Toolbox

The BSA has many training resources to help us in serving the youth. We want to introduce you to the Inclusion Toolbox. Every Unit should be familiar with information that will help you as leaders in working with youth with disabilities. Our aim is to help all youth who want to join Scouts do so with leaders who know how help them feel accepted.

The Inclusion Toolbox 

The Inclusion Toolbox for Special Needs and Disabilities is a printable website that keeps special needs and disability information accessible 24/7/365 for the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) community, including Scouts BSA. The Toolbox replaces the printed and PDF Scouting for Youth with Disabilities Manual from 2007.

The Toolbox does not read like a novel or textbook. It is designed to allow you to jump to the topics of greatest interest and then read other sections later. Use the Inclusion Toolbox menu (above) on the AbleScouts site to find the Toolbox and list its modules. Each module contains a Table of Contents outlining its material. You may also use the web site’s search feature to jump to what you need.

Here are the modules of the Inclusion Toolbox. They are also posted on the Scouting.org web site. There are three major sections:

• The Toolbox, modules A through W
• AA: Appendices
• BB: Camp Programs for Scouts with Special Needs and Disabilities
  
  

Individual modules will be updated as required.

• The Toolbox
• A: Introduction
• B: Basics of Scouting From a Special Needs Perspective
• C: Unit Leader’s Role Supporting Scouts with a Disability
• D: Parent’s Role Supporting a Scout with a Disability
• E: Navigating Advancement Requirements
• F: Methods That Apply to Many Types of Disabilities
• G: Organizations That Support Those with Disabilities
• H: Understanding Allergies and Food Issues
• K: Understanding Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity
• L:Understanding Autism
• M: Understanding Blindness and Vision Impairment
• N: Understanding Deafness and Hearing Impairment
• P: Understanding Intellectual Disability
• Q: Understanding Learning Disorders
• R: Understanding Physical Disabilities (Mobility/ Gross & Fine Motor)
• S: Understanding Speech and Language Disorders
• U: Special Needs and Disabilities (SND) Committees
• V: Evaluating Advancement Alternatives
• W: Commissioner Service for Units
• AA: Appendices
• Special Needs and Disability Language Matters
• Credits & Acknowledgements
• BB: Camp Programs for Scouts with Special Needs and Disabilities
• Aquatic Programs
• BB-1: Swim Areas
• BB-2: Waterfront and Boating
• Shooting Sports 
• BB-3: Guns
• BB-4: Low Velocity

Any questions contact your district Disability Awareness Committee member on your district Advancement committee or Roger Heslop, Chair, Crossroads of the West council Disability Awareness committee at 801-791-1526 or rhes44@gmail.com.