Wood Badge is an advanced, national leadership course open only to Scouting volunteers and professionals. Scouters from Cub Scouting, Scouts BSA, Venturing, Sea Scouts, Explorers, and district and council Scouters are all welcome and belong here. This course will help you better understand how all the Scouting programs tie together. It will provide you with many useful leadership tools to help enable our youth to have the best possible Scouting experience. There is no better time to attend a Wood Badge course and make a difference in your unit than when you are a Cub Scout Leader.

Why do you want to go?

You want to participate in a Wood Badge course because of the things you will learn and do. Here are some of the benefits:

• Stronger units. You will make your Scouting unit — and your sons’ and daughters’ units — stronger.

• What and why of Scouting. You will have a deeper understanding of what Scouting is and why we do it.

• Experience. You will learn and experience things that will stay with you in Scouting and the rest of your life.

• Fun. You will have fun and you will meet interesting people.

• Other groups. You will make your other groups, like work, church, and even family, stronger.

Purpose of Wood Badge 

The purpose of Wood Badge is to develop skilled leaders who can strengthen Scouting units in achieving the mission of Scouting America.

When we accomplish the mission of Scouting, we do it in the units. Therefore, the short form of the purpose is, that the purpose of Wood Badge is to strengthen units.

Although the course is different today, what Baden-Powell said in 1919 still applies: One of the purposes of Wood Badge training is to get Scouters to think about the practice of Scouting, to meet together, to exchange experiences, and to live together in the spirit of the Scout Oath.

More information

or more information, talk with your district or council training chair or contact Carl Yergen, Course Director at olgriznmamabear@msn.com or 503-313-5570