SMLT

If you are active with us and are serving as as Assistant Scoutmaster with the Scouts on Trips, Merit Badge Counseling, or serving on the Committee, or plan to to share the experience with your son, and you haven't attended the below attached training (Scoutmaster Leader Specific Training-SMLST) or the companion course Outdoor Leadership Training -OLS), you need to consider taking the time to do it. It adds a great deal of depth to understanding the Boy Led Troop concept, adds depth to our leadership corps in the Troop, and satisfies BSA requirements that active leaders complete the same withing 90 days of joining.

It has been proven by the BSA that the Troop with trained leaders has higher retention rates among the leaders and Scouts, as well as , causing a better working Boy Led relationship among all it's members. Besides that, its an eye opening , relationship building, high learning course (s) that makes you wish you hadn't taken it sooner. The staff is better than they have ever been, the curriculum is stronger, and the results are always good.

The Troop will provide all the required gear you may need for the outdoor portion of the courses.

The SMLST is usually given one day on a Saturday, and as it turns out, the Troop will be at Camp Sequoyah the same weekend for Shooting Sports so you can not only attend the OLS but can visit with Troop also.

If it isn't possible to attend this Fall, the courses will also be offered in the Spring.

For those of you who have attended SMLST and OLS, but have not attended Wood Badge for two weekends, it is being offered by he Council April 1-3 and April 29-May 1. There are several members of the Troop who are graduates and can speak to its strengths.

Finally, the University of Scouting is being offered on March 5, where a not only hundreds of leaders congregate for brief training sessions, but also offer answers to all you've wanted to know.

YOUTH PROTECTION TRAINING: Is required of all our leaders active in any capacity in the Troop. Please go to: myscouting.org and take the course, making sure Mrs. Kidd has a copy of your completion certificate. This is a requirement by the BSA with no exceptions..even for newly entering WEBELOS Leaders who plan on being active and should have it a WEBELOS Leaders at this time. In the past, a leader would serve as an instructor for a group of leaders in the Troop each year. Currently, group certifications are are not counted in place of the course on:myscouting.org Leaders do not need to be registered with the troop or the Council to take the course on line.

Interested in being a Leave no Trace instructor for the Troop? Scouts -mature 14 and over and all leaders can attend a 16 hour course on Oct 1-3 in Birmingham or October 29-31 in Huntsville.

The National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) which is normally given in the spring and summer will be taught this winter at Camp Comer January 14-17 and February 18-21. We have several Scout graduates of this course who will speak to it more in the coming weeks.

All of the above courses can be registered for on the Greater Alabama Council Web Site or at the Scout Service Center at Liberty Park.

see attachment below for SMLST and OLS