Venturing YPT Adult Leadership Training for Troop

[Stosh]

Qwazi brings up an interesting problem. When the crew and troop do a joint activity, the 18-20 year old ASM from the troop has adult status but the "youth" of the same age from the crew do not... and they don't "need" YPT yet they are interacting directly with the youth of the troop. What would be really interesting is if a "youth" from the crew is registered as an ASM. Do they go as an adult or as a youth???? Can a registered troop ASM bunk with the adults if he is also registered as a Crew youth?

 

 

Stosh

[qwazse]

Qwazi brings up an interesting problem. When the crew and troop do a joint activity, the 18-20 year old ASM from the troop has adult status but the "youth" of the same age from the crew do not... and they don't "need" YPT yet they are interacting directly with the youth of the troop. What would be really interesting is if a "youth" from the crew is registered as an ASM. Do they go as an adult or as a youth???? Can a registered troop ASM bunk with the adults if he is also registered as a Crew youth?

 

 

Stosh

Stupid colleges steal my youth before I've had a chance to have this problem at any frequency .

 

My general approach is to tell young adult ASMs and older scouts to set up appropriate boundaries and declare them to me and the SM in advance. If a dual-youth would essentially be a patrol-of-one, then he can bunk with the male venturers/ASMs. If a dual-youth has responsibilities with the troop (SPL or PL), the ASM's can't bunk with him. (The SM has been known to let this slide for 17.8 year-olds SPLs when elections are drawing near. It puts a bee in the youngns' bonnets and makes them think seriously about running.)

 

Me, I find shelter away from the lot of them. This past Sunday I staked my tent out in the snow on a hilltop where my SM first showed me a taught-line hitch many and a half years ago.