Boy Scout Leader's Training Award

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Training*

• Complete Boy Scout Leader Fast Start Training.
• Complete Youth Protection Training.
• Complete New Leader Essentials Training.
• Complete Job Specific Training for your position.
• Scoutmaster/Assistant Scoutmaster - complete Outdoor Skills Training.
• Committee Chair/Committee Member - complete Troop Committee Challenge.

Tenure

Complete a total of 2 years as a registered adult Boy Scout leader.

Performance

Do any five of the following:

• Participate in a support role for five overnight campouts.
• Help with two annual unit and/or district Friends of Scouting enrollments.
• Serve on the staff of a council or district training event.
• Participate in a supplemental training course at either the local council or national level.
• Participate actively in three troop parents' nights or courts of honor.
• Help supervise and support a troop money-earning project.
• Serve as a merit badge counselor for at least five Scouts.
• Successfully complete Boy Scout Leader Wood Badge.
• Successfully fulfill requirements of a troop committee function as described in the Troop Committee Guidebook.
• Assist actively in a Webelos den for six months.
• Participate in six Boy Scout roundtables.
• Help organize or reorganize a Scout troop.

*Note:  Boy Scout leaders completing basic training before September 1, 2001 may use previous version of basic training, Scoutmastership Fundamentals, to fulfill the training requirement.  After that date, leaders must complete New Leader Essentials and the further training required for their position.  Scoutmasters and Assistant Scoutmasters need Scoutmaster Leader Specific Training and Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills, and Troop Committee members must have the Troop Committee Challenge.

** Note:  This award can be earned from different programs.  For this award a miniature device pins can be worn which indicates the program phase where the award was earned.   One does not wear multiple copies of the same square knot, but can wear multiple miniature device pins on a square knot.