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Venturing Training
National
Site: Adult and Youth Training
http://www.scouting.org/venturing/anc/training.html
Training For Venturing Leaders
 Fast
Start Training
The Venturing Fast Start guide illustrates how using the
program planning process can get Venturing programs off to a successful start.
It provides information about training youth officers and is designed to be
produced locally to orient new crew Advisors. Also available is the New Crew
Fast Start video, No. AV-03V013, which was produced to support the booklet.
 New
Leader Essentials
New Leader Essentials is an introductory session that
highlights the values, aims, history, funding, and methods of Scouting. It
addresses how these aims and methods are reached in an age-appropriate style
within Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting, Varsity Scouting, and Venturing. Ideally all
unit-based volunteers - Cub Scout, Boy Scout and Venturing leaders - take this
90 minute course at the same time, so they understand that they are all striving
for the same results with the youth they serve. Each leader completes New Leader
Essentials training only once.
 Leader
Specific Training
Developed for Venturing Advisors, assistant Advisors, and
crew committee members, this training incorporates Venturing's current adult
leader training. New Leader Essentials and Venturing Leader Specific Training
can be completed in one day, after which the leader is considered to be trained.
 Introduction
to Outdoor Scouting Skills
Outdoor skills are critical to the success of the Scouting
program, and Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills will provide leaders with the
basic outdoor skills information needed to start a program right.
Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills is
the required outdoor training for all Scoutmasters, assistant Scoutmasters, and
Varsity Scout coaches. The skills taught are based on the outdoor skills found
in The Boy Scout Handbook. The course is also ideal for Venturing leaders
because it focuses on skills that build confidence and competence in leaders
conducting outdoor camping experiences.
The course is a day and a half long, but
a leader can move at an accelerated pace by demonstrating mastery of a specific
skill. The emphasis is on the skill, rather than on attending the course.
 Wood
Badge for the 21st Century
Wood Badge has evolved into the core leadership skills
training course for the BSA. The new Wood Badge course focuses on strengthening
every volunteer's ability to work with and lead groups of youth and adults and
is less focused on outdoor skills, which are more effectively addressed in other
courses.
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