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  • LATEST POSTS

    • mrjohns2
      National Medal for Outdoor Achievement- discontinued?

      By mrjohns2 · Posted

      It has been announced as discontinued in Scoutbook, I believe. 
    • DougJ
      National Medal for Outdoor Achievement- discontinued?

      By DougJ · Posted

      I work with two different troops in the Seattle area, and I have two Scouts who have previously earned the National Medal for Outdoor Achievement, including my daughter.  I have two other Scouts who are close to completing the medal.  However, the medal seems to have disappeared from the web site.  Has anybody heard about this?   It's no longer on the National Outdoor Awards page: https://www.scouting.org/programs/scouts-bsa/advancement-and-awards/noa/ It's no longer listed on the Awards page: https://www.scouting.org/awards/awards-central/ I've seen no recent discussion of this online.  It does still exist on the SA site in two places: The application is still on the site: https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/Outdoor Program/pdf/430-041_WB.pdf It IS still in the Scout Shop: https://www.scoutshop.org/national-medal-for-outdoor-achievement-award-660210.html Does anybody have any information? Thanks- Doug Johnson, ASM- Troop 312, Troop 681  
    • jcousino
      Are you in a council that has a positive or toxic culture or something different?

      By jcousino · Posted

      look at the controls set up under the short-term camp program. The fix is easy, but it helps cover the various troops COR.  if a scouter from Troop A has an issue dealing with a scout of another unit YP or injury, where does the liability fall > lets all COR know that it's a mixed group
    • Jameson76
      Are you in a council that has a positive or toxic culture or something different?

      By Jameson76 · Posted

      My council is a culture of cash is king.  The professional motto is ABF - Always Be Fundraising.  Everything the council puts out on any platform are the council sponsored events.  If they are not able to monetize something (like promote a unit doing a cool outing or a unit providing good service) they do not care.  Quite actually more than 1/2 of the paid employees in the council are "Development" or "Marketing" staff.  Now you might think marketing is promoting the program, nope, it's about marketing fundraising. Any DE, when they are hired, the description of duties in the announcement first reads leading FOS, popcorn, and camp cards.  Oh, maybe recruiting and unit growth, but that is waaaaaay down the list. My council operates with this question: "Do we raise money to have Scouting - OR - Do we have Scouting to be able to raise money?".  They are 100% focused in the latter part of this question.
    • Eagle94-A1
      Are you in a council that has a positive or toxic culture or something different?

      By Eagle94-A1 · Posted

      Until recently, multiple units could camp together with no issues. I think National tightened the multiple units policy because some were creating their own events like camporees and summer camp  even. As long as the YPT policies OF THE DAY (emphasis, YPT has become significantly tighter, i.e. only 21 year olds count towards YPT, parents are not allowed to camp, etc) you were fine.  
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