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Adult leader Venturing training begins with Venturing Fast
Start. This guide is designed to assist the newly-recruited Venturing crew
Advisor in using the Venturing program planning process to get a crew up and
running and off to a successful start. Highlights include: What is Venturing,
Program Goals, Program Methods, Crew Orientation, Steps to Getting Your Crew Up
and Running, Leadership Position Responsibilities, and Hints for Successful Crew
Operation. It also provides information on suggested crew activities,
cooperative and problem solving games, and suggested agendas.
Also
available is the New Crew Fast Start video. Aimed at both Advisors and youth
officers, this video supports the guide booklet and also acts as a training tool
for youth leaders too.
Crew-administered self-study is the primary
method of delivery for Fast Start training. Your crew Advisor will supports the
new leader during this training period. Talk to your Advisor or Committee Chair
about the guide and video. If they do not have them, you can obtain them from
the Council Service Center
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New Leader
Essentials
All new for 2001, New Leader Essentials is a 90 minute class for all leaders,
Tiger Cub, Cub Scout, Boy Scout, Varsity Scout, Venturing, and District Leaders.
New Leader Essentials is the initial training for adult leaders serving youth in
the Boy Scouts of America. This overview of the Scouting program is an
exciting insight to the great world of Scouting you can provide for your son or
daughter. This course is only taken once and does not have to be repeated for a
new leader position.
Learning Objectives
Presentation 1 What Are the Goals I'm Trying
to Accomplish?
The Mission of the Boy Scouts of America.
Aims and
Methods of Scouting.
Presentation 2 How Do Youth Grow and Develop?
The concept of stages of youth development.
Presentation 3 Where
Do I Fit In?
How troops are organized, the involvement of youth, adult
leaders, the troop committee, and the chartered organization.
Presentation
4 Where Do I Get Help?
How do I find people resources, program
literature, and information about the leadership process.
Presentation 5
Who Pays For Scouting?
How youth members and their parents financially
support Scouting activities.
Fiscal support from the troop and chartered
organization
Presentation 6 How Do I Keep Scouting
Safe?
Leadership requirements for keeping Scouting safe
BSA policy on
drug, alcohol, and tobacco use and abuse
Presentation 7 Your Bridge Into
Scouting
Be ready to take on leadership of your Scouting unit with
confidence.
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The Next Step.
Who should attend?
New crew chartered organization
personnel, Venturing crew Advisors, associate Advisors, crew committee members,
commissioners, and other adults involved with Venturing should
attend.
Learning Objectives:
Session One – Here’s
Venturing
New Crew Fast Start videotape
BSA Mission
Venturing
Oath
What is Venturing?
Session Two – Understanding and Protecting
Youth
Learn abut the characteristics of Venturing-age youth and to learn
about safety and youth protection issues.
Session Three – Leadership and
Organization
Provide participants with an orientation n the leadership
and organization required to operate a successful crew.
Session Four –
Awards and Recognitions
Describe the Venturing awards and recognitions
and emphasize their unique features.
Session Five – Resources and Program
Planning
This session illustrates how to use Venturing literature and
resources to plan an exciting crew program.
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These videos are available to support training in the
following areas:
1.Briefing the Organizing Committee (AV-03V012)
2.Moments in Common (AV-03V005)
3.Revised New Crew Fast Start (AV-03V013)
4.Selling Venturing to the Head of an Organization
(AV-03V011)
5.Youth Protection Guidelines: Training for
Adult Venturing Leaders (AV-03V014)
6.Youth Protection: Personal Safety Awareness (AV-09V027)
7.The Venturing Experience CD (AV-631)
8.Venturing Professional Orientation (AV-03V015)
9.Venturing for Scoutmasters (AV-03V016)
10.Venturing for Religious Youth Groups (AV-03V017)
11.Sea Scouts: Chart a Course for Life (AV-03V018)
Roundtable
Roundtable is the monthly opportunity for you to brush up on the skills you
have learned, or learn a new skill. Roundtable is also the place where all the
information on events, dates and times, new Boy Scout policy, awards, and a
whole lot more. A short general session is followed by breakout sessions for
each Scouting group. Additional training for Senior Patrol Leaders,
Life-to-Eagle Scout sessions, and Order of the Arrow.
Simoroaks
District meets in Simi Valley at the Latter Day Saints on Sinaloa at 7:30 p.m.
on the second Wednesday of every month.
Simoroaks District meets in Thousand
Oaks at the Latter Day Saints on Erbes Road at 7:30 p.m. on the second Thursday
of every month.
Chumash District meets in Ventura at Rio Mesa High
School at 7:30 p.m. on the third Thursday of every month.
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Youth
Protection
The one and one-half hour course is required to
cover the youth protection policies of the Boy Scouts of America. The training
is required for certain outings. Upon completion of the training, a certificate
is issued, good for five years.
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Safe Swim
Defense
Before a BSA group may engage in swimming activities of any
kind, a minimum of one adult leader must complete Safe Swim Defense
training, have a commitment card (No. 34243) with them, and agree to use the
eight defenses in this plan.
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Safety
Afloat
Safety Afloat has been developed to promote boating and boating
safety and to set standards for safe unit activity afloat. Before a BSA group
may engage in an excursion, expedition, or trip on the water (canoe, raft,
sailboat, motorboat, row-boat, tube, or other craft), adult leaders for
such activity must complete "Safety Afloat Training," No. 34159A, have a
"Commitment Card:, No. 34242A, with them, and be dedicated to full compliance
with all nine points of Safety Afloat.
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Powder
Horn
A High
adventure Skills Resource Courser for Venturing Advisors & Boy Scout leaders
Introduction:
Powder Horn is a
training opportunity designed to expose the Venturing or Boy Scout leader to
activities and resources necessary to operate a successful Venturing Ranger
or Troop High Adventure program in several ways:
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Help Venturing
Leaders and Scouters to safely conduct outdoor activities of a fun
and challenging nature.
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Provides an introduction to the resources
necessary to successfully lead their Venturers and older Boy Scouts through a
program of high adventure.
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Familiarizes the Advisor with the Ranger
program so that he or she can help the Venturer to meet the requirements of
the Ranger Award.
This course is based on the Venturing Ranger
requirements giving participants an exposure to outdoor/high adventure
activities.
All Powder Horn courses will include the following
Ranger Core Requirements and Electives:
(No one has to do any activity
they feel uncomfortable with)
Backpacking
Land
Navigation
Communication
Leave no Trace-Camping
Conservation
Project
Development
Life Saver
Cooking
Mountaineering
Emergency
Preparedness |
Outdoor Living History
Expedition
Planning
Overnight
First Aid
Physical Fitness
Plants, Wildlife &
Ecology
Shooting Sports
Wilderness Survival
Working with
Teens |
Learning Objectives
After completing this course
participants should have sufficient introductory information which
will provide the following outcomes:
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Detailed knowledge of the
Venturing Ranger Award and associated Silver Award requirements.
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Knowledge of the health and safety requirements, and rules and
regulations of the Boy Scouts of America as they apply to outdoor programs.
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Introduction to the skills necessary to operate their outdoor program
and the certifications necessary and how to obtain those certifications.
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Knowledge of how to identify local resources and consultants for Ranger
Award and High Adventure activities.
This course is not a total
training program, which enables the Venturing or Boy Scout unit leader to
be an expert or even self-sufficient in any aspect of outdoor skills. The
adult leader will most likely still need knowledgeable, trained, and
certified individuals (Consultants) to help provide a safe and
correct outdoor/high adventure program.
Participant Qualifications
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Must be a registered adult member of the Boy Scouts of America.
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Must have completed Adult Venturing Leader Basic Training (for Venturing
Adults) or Scoutmastership Fundamentals (for Boy Scouting adults) prior to
attending Powder Horn course.
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Be able to meet physical requirements
of BSA Class III physical in a backcountry environment.
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Wood Badge for the 21st
Century
Wood Badge is Scouting's premier training course. Lord
Baden-Powell designed it so that Scouters could learn, in as practical a way
possible, the skills and methods of Scouting. It is first and foremost, learning
by doing. The members of the course are formed into patrols and these into a
troop. The entire troop lives in the out-of-doors for a week, or over three
weekends, camping, cooking their own meals, and practicing Scout skills. Wood
Badge teaches the same leadership skills or principles which are taught in
management training courses offered all over the world. While the skills
presented are sound management techniques, they are presented in the environment
of Boy Scouting, with the application of those skills geared towards the Boy
Scout Troop.
For information on the next course see the WLACC Training Page
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