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Are You Suffering From Wood Badge Withdrawal?
Has it been too long since you saw your patrol members or fellow critters? Well, suffer and wait no more. Want to help others attend Wood Badge? Then here is your chance. Come join the FOWBA at our Spring Reunion Dinner. All proceeds from the dinner will go towards Wood Badge Scholarships. All are welcome to join in the fun, Wood Badge trained or not.
Download the following form for more information and to register for the Wood Badge Spring Reunion Dinner to be held Saturday, May 5, 2012.
Sign Up Now for Wood Badge
Recruiting has begun for Wood Badge 2012! This course will offer leaders in Scouting a premier adult training experience like no other. For the upcoming scout year, 2011-12, NBOFC will host Wood Badge Course N6-544-12 over two non-consecutive weekends: August 24-26, 2012 and September 14-16, 2012 at Hidden Valley Scout Reservation. The Council Office has started to receive applications for next year’s training so don’t hesitate; sign up and become a member of Course N6-544-12!
Wood Badge 2012 is offering an “incentive bonus” for participants that register early. If you are within the first ‘20’ participants completely registered (application and full payment received), you will have the opportunity to be chosen for a prize listed below:
- 1st Prize - “Pick your own Critter”
- 2nd Prize - Receive a course-related gift
- 3rd Prize - (2) Quartermaster snack or treat for your patrol (one each weekend)
- 4th Prize - (1) Quartermaster snack or treat for your patrol (1st weekend)
(The Quartermaster is responsible for all meals and physical arrangements during the course.)
The drawing of names from the first ‘20’ reservations will occur at the 30-Day Out Participant Meeting on July 21, 2012. This is your opportunity to receive one of four prizes available for your early registration for Wood Badge 2012!
2012 NYLT Course Announced
The New Birth of Freedom Council is pleased to announce its annual NYLT course. This course will be held June 17-22, 2012 at Hidden Valley Scout Reservation. The NYLT course is an exciting, action packed program designed to provide youth members of the Boy Scouts of America with leadership skills and experiences they can use in their home unit and in other situations demanding self-discipline and leadership of others.
Scouts participating in NYLT can receive a 25% discount on the regular summer camp fee only for Camp Tuckahoe or Hidden Valley boy scout resident camp fee if the NYLT and summer camp fee is paid in full prior to April 1, 2012.
Example:
Regular Summer Camp Fee = $295
Summer Camp fee at HVSR or Camp Tuckahoe if NYLT and Summer Camp is
paid in full by April 1, 2012 = $221.25
Training Records Available
Scouters with MyScouting accounts will be able to review their entire training record, including youth protection, through the “Training Validation” tab on the MyScouting website. Previously, a volunteer was only able to view their records for courses taken online (but not classes participated with in-person).
Additionally, unit leaders can review the training records for all adults in their unit through the “Training Validation” tab. To do this, the unit leader will need the membership ID number for Scouters that he/she want to look up. This number is available on BSA membership cards or on rechartering information.
Any discrepancies can be reported to your district executive for updating. In most cases, requests should be accompanied by a training card for the missing course.
Important Changes To Youth Protection Training Policies
Youth safety is the No. 1 concern of the BSA.
To increase awareness of this societal problem and to create even greater barriers to abuse than already exist today in Scouting, the Boy Scouts of America has implemented several important changes to further enhance its youth protection policies, effective June 1, 2010:
