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Building a Successful Scouts BSA Program
Bob Trejo - Scouts BSA Troop 98 (B)Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania
www.bsa98.com
Facebook: @Troop98PA
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1. Your biggest advantage
2. Know your resources
3. Creating the perfect environment
4. Success begets success
5. Promote
Building a Successful Scouts BSA Program • Oct 2020
Felipe - Ophies Patrol
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1. Your biggest advantage - the Scouting Program
No other youth program offers what Scouting can:
● Outdoor adventure● Wide range of topics/skills● Responsibility unusual for age● Clear achievement progression● Simple rules
Building a Successful Scouts BSA Program • Oct 2020
Orienteering • Anonymous Patrol
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1. Your biggest advantage - the Scouting Program
Help your youth choose the best of what Scouting offers:
● Anything outdoorsSCOUTING
● The impossible made possible● Opportunities for camaraderie● Find and infuse fun
Building a Successful Scouts BSA Program • Oct 2020
Icy Cobras Patrol
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1. Your biggest advantage - the Scouting Program
● Orienteering
● Pioneering
● Cooking
● Hiking/Backpacking
● Fishing/Boating
● Creating/Building/Giving
Building a Successful Scouts BSA Program • Oct 2020
Summer Camp Party Boat • 2019
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1. Your biggest advantage - the Scouting Program
Building a Successful Scouts BSA Program • Oct 2020
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2. Know (and use) your resources
● Meeting and Activity Plans● Scouts BSA Handbook● Troop Leader Guidebook● troopleader.scouting.org● Units who post their meeting plans
● Scout Leader Roundtable● Council and National (BL/Scouting, mail lists)● Units who post their meeting plans● Social media pages
Building a Successful Scouts BSA Program • Oct 2020
Chariot Race at a troop meeting
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3. Creating the perfect environment
● Why Scouts leave● The meetings are boring● The adults talk too much
● But also: uninterested adults, unwelcoming Scouts, disorganization
● Scouts stay for fun, being “given rope” in a supportive and welcoming environment.
Building a Successful Scouts BSA Program • Oct 2020
Ophies Patrol flag
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3. Creating the perfect environment
Make sure Scouts feel welcomed, that the program is interesting and achievable, and, yes, fun of course. Make it so they want to be here.
Clear as many hurdles as possible to their future participation: physical, emotional/psychological, interpersonal, parental, financial. Make it so they can be here without barriers.
Focus on making them confident and as self-sufficient as possible. Proficiency comes later, after some (or many) iterations. If they stay in, they'll become proficient in the basic stuff. Provide them opportunities to gain confidence in their abilities within the program and their patrol and troop.
Building a Successful Scouts BSA Program • Oct 2020
Webelos Open House
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3. Creating the perfect environment
Add fun!
Building a Successful Scouts BSA Program • Oct 2020
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4. Success begets Success
○ It’s okay to start small
○ Cancel nothing, ever
○ Focus on a successful experience for everyone, then build on that success
○ Give your youth leaders as much more responsibility as than they can handle
○ Ask for help; if none, ask for money
Building a Successful Scouts BSA Program • Oct 2020
Iron Chef • Blue Phoenix Patrol
Mini-PLC Meeting
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5. Promote
○ BeAScout.org
○ Relationship with Packs (and any other unit nearby)
○ Social media • Website!
○ School and organization mediums (PTA, YMCA, bulletin boards)
○ District and Council awareness (and help)
Building a Successful Scouts BSA Program • Oct 2020
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Best wishes for success!
Bob Trejo - Scouts BSA Troop 98 (B)Whitpain Township, Pennsylvania
www.bsa98.com
Facebook: @Troop98PA