Training forms the key to success for all youth and adult leaders. Congratulations to the following trained Scout Leaders -- they received their trained strip thru 8/18/2014 To receive a trained strip, you must be registered in that position and take Youth Protection and the Leader Specific training for your Registered Position. | Article Summary - Training is an important part of providing aquality program for the boys in our Council. Every boy deserves a trained leader. By: Donna Sword- Web Team Updated 11/14/2014 The Las Vegas Area Council provides training for all areas of program, leadership, and supervision. Regular courses are held at convenient locations in each district. Volunteers should establish a mandate and mind-set that untrained leadership meeting with young people is unacceptable. www.myscouting.org -- please go directly to this webpage by typing the address into your internet explorer browser. If you bookmark the page, you will be able to get back to it when you need to do additional training. All Cub Scout Leader specific training is now available online with the exception of Webelos overnighter training and Baloo training. Create your account at MyScouting.org. Write down your user name and password so you can find them when you need to renew your training. A contact in your email client is a very good place so you do not lose that little piece of paper. If you have forgotten your user name or password, use the "Forgot User Name" or Forgot Password" under the login area of the MyScouting.org account sign in page. Take your specific youth protection training and Leader Specific Training. Print out your certificates and give them to your unit training person, to get to the council office. Make sure your Person ID gets entered into your MyScouting account once you are registered in scouting so all your training records will come directly to Scouting database. 100% Trained Units This includes the Chartered Organization Rep. Silverado Pack 309 Spring Mountain Pack 695 | | Commissioners Make sure you are registered as a commissioner You need to complete: Youth Protection (MyScouting.org) This is Scouting (MyScouting.org) Unit Commissioner Fast Start (MyScouting.org) Unit Visit Tracking System (Find video on MyScouting.org) You will need to link your BSA Personal ID to your MyScouting account to see the Unit Visit Tracking system. | College of Commissioner Science Extenstion Leadership Series The College of Commissioner Science (CCS) is offering a series of professional educational workshops that will feature diverse hands-on techniques that will enable the participants to fully understand some “best practices” involved in adult volunteer training. The overall outcome of the series of courses is that the participants will become competent, comfortable, and equipped with the latest ‘tools” designed to heighten their knowledge base. The following sessions are an “extension” offering of the College of Commissioner Science, and are being offered to all commissioners (Unit, District and Council) in the Las Vegas Area Council, whether they are in the bachelor, master, and doctorate programs, and also to those scout leaders not currently in the CCS programs at all. The sessions will be open to all committee members (pack, troop, varsity, or venturing). The six 5-hours sessions will be offered monthly, on Saturday mornings at the Donald W. Reynolds Scouting Resource Center – 7220 S. Paradise Rd. Las Vegas, NV 89119. You may attend any course or all six. Check-in for the courses begin at 8:00 am with the sessions going from 8:30 am – 1:30 pm. There is no cost to attend the courses, however we ask that you pre-register on-line. click on the class to register. December 13 Coaching and Counseling January 10 Mentoring | Eagle Board of Review Training Tuesday, November 18, 2014 7:00 - 8:30 pm Questions, please contact Bill Ivie | Board of Review Click Here for a Guideline on how to conduct the various Boards of Review from Tenderfoot rank to Palms. A Board of Review can also be used to see why a youth is not advancing. Check out this great resource. | Online Registration Paper Registration Form | 2015 National Youth Leader Training June 8 - 13, 2015 For More information please contact Jefferson Grace | Online Registration Paper Registration Form | 2015 Wood Badge April 30 -May 2 TBA and May 14-16 Kimball Scout Reservation For more informaiton please contact Kenyon Crouch | Youth Protection (Y01) certificate must be attached to all new applications. You will need the Youth Protection specifically for Venturing (Y02) if you are a leader in the Venturing program or Charter Organization Representative for a Venture Crew. Exploring Youth Protection is Y03. | www.myscouting.org Please type this web address into your Internet Explorer Browser to create a new account, or Log on with the user name and password you have created. All of the Cub Scout training and most of the Boy Scout training has been moved to the internet where it is readily accessible for all scout leaders. Included are the Fast Start Training, Youth Protection, and the Safety classes. | | Las Vegas Area Council Training Calendar All training in the Council is now integrated into one combined calendar. It is also available in a list form. | | Fact Sheets Key information about what you are expected to do in your current position in scouting. | |