Scoutmaster-Specific Training introduces you to everything you need to know about running a Scouts BSA Troop. In particular, you and your fellow adult leaders are now in more of a “mentor” position where your job is to help your youth members learn and practice leadership. While this training will not answer every single question you have, it is a great start. This course, combined with Youth Protection Training and the Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills (IOLS) course, will make you an “fully trained” Scouts BSA leader.

Troop Committee Challenge Training introduces you to everything you need to know. It won’t answer every single question you have, but it’s a great start.Running a Scouts BSA Troop is a little like running a business: there’s a budget and a calendar, there’s money coming in (fundraising and dues), there’s money going out (activities, equipment purchases, registration fees), there’s a “workforce” (your fellow adult volunteers), and there are goals and evaluation of whether you reached those goals. And, of course, you’re doing all this within the unique context of Scouting with some special rules and requirements. Why would you try and do all this without some kind of training?

'The merit badge counselor’s role is to bring about learning on the part of the Boy Scout. The purpose of this training unit is to provide council- or districtapproved and registered merit badge counselors with understanding of the methods of counseling and their role in the advancement program of Boy Scouts of America.

All leaders must have a current Youth Protection Training.  It is recommended that you have also completed Hazardous Weather but it is not required.