The best resources any unit has are it’s Parents. We have skills and careers from all walks of life just waiting to be utilized. How about adding a tab for Parents / Adults to put in some areas that they would be willing to help in, things like transport, financial responsibility, First aid, IT the list goes on and on. I have this in a word document currently, but having it online would be a Huge boost.
Here are the items we ask on our document:
3. Would you be willing to assist the troop leaders and committee members occasionally? Y / N
- Please check the areas in which you would be willing to help.
General Activities Special Program Assistance
• Campouts • I can participate in boards of review.
• Hikes • I have a station wagon or truck.
• Outdoor activities • I have a workshop.
• Troop meetings • I have family camping gear.
• Swimming supervision • I have access to a Cottage / Cabin.
• Bookkeeping • I have access to camping property.
• Typing • I can make contacts for special trips and activities.
• Drawing/art • I can help with repair of troop equipment.
• Transportation of Scouts • I have access to a personal computer.
• Transportation of equipment • I have access to a Copy Machine.
• Other: ________________________________________
- Please check any Scouting skills you would be willing to teach/advise.
• Aquatics • First aid • Outdoor cooking
• Camping • Hiking • Rope work (knots and lashings)
• Citizenship • Knife and ax handling • Star study
• Conservation • Map and compass use / GPS
I would be interested in serving the Troop in the following capacity
Direct Contact Leaders Committee Positions
• Scoutmaster • Committee Chair
• Assistant Scoutmaster • Treasurer
• ASM: Crossover Coordinator • Secretary
• ASM: Patrol Leader Council Advisor • Advancement Chair
• ASM: Equipment Coordinator/ Quartermaster • Fund Raising Coordinator
• ASM: Outdoor Activities • Transportation Coordinator
• ASM: Program • Training Coordinator
• Chaplain • New Parent Advisor
• Publicity Coordinator
• Uniform Coordinator
• Committee Member
My Scouting experience: please enter years of service, Unit Number(s) and City/State:
Cub Scout: ____________________________________________________________________________________
Boy Scout: ____________________________________________________________________________________
Girl Scout: ____________________________________________________________________________________
Explorer / Venturer: ____________________________________________________________________________
Order of the Arrow: _____________________________________________________________________________
Adult leader: __________________________________________________________________________________
Highest Rank Attained: __________________________________________________________________________
Awards and Honors Attained: _____________________________________________________________________
MERIT BADGES
Merit Badges are a very important part of scouting. As the boys advance in rank merit badges become a requirement for advancement as well as a tool for learning.
Check the merit badges that you can help Boy Scouts earn either by becoming a counselor or as a source of Information.
As a Merit Badge Counselor you may also elect to be a counselor for Troop #456 only.
Current as of 2016
Bold - Eagle Required
• American Business • American Cultures • American Heritage • American Labor • Animal Science • Archaeology • Archery • Architecture • Art • Astronomy • Athletics • Automotive Maintenance • Aviation • Backpacking • Entrepreneurship • Environmental Science • Family Life • Farm Mechanics • Fingerprinting • Fire Safety • First Aid • Fish and Wildlife Management • Fishing • Fly Fishing • Forestry • Gardening • Genealogy • Geocaching • Photography • Pioneering • Plant Science • Plumbing • Pottery • Public Health • Public Speaking • Pulp and Paper • Radio • Railroading • Reading • Reptile and Amphibian Study • Rifle Shooting • Robotics
• Basketry • Bird Study • Bugling • Camping • Canoeing • Chemistry • Chess • Cinematography • Citizenship in the Community • Citizenship in the Nation • Citizenship in the World • Climbing • Coin Collecting • Collections • Communications • Composite Materials • Computers • Cooking • Crime Prevention • Cycling • Dentistry • Disabilities Awareness • Dog Care • Drafting • Electricity • Electronics • Emergency Preparedness • Energy • Engineering • Geology • Golf • Graphic Arts • Hiking • Home Repairs • Horsemanship • Indian Lore • Insect Study • Inventing • Journalism • Landscape Architecture • Law • Leatherwork • Lifesaving • Mammal Study • Medicine • Metalwork • Model Design and Building • Motorboating • Music • Nature • Nuclear Science • Oceanography • Orienteering • Painting • Personal Fitness • Personal Management • Pets • Rowing • Safety • Salesmanship • Scouting Heritage • Scholarship • Scuba Diving • Sculpture • Shotgun Shooting • Skating • Small-Boat Sailing • Snow Sports • Soil and Water Conservation • Space Exploration • Sports • Stamp Collecting • Surveying • Swimming • Textile • Theater • Traffic Safety • Truck Transportation • Veterinary Medicine • Water Sports • Weather • Whitewater • Wilderness Survival • Wood Carving • Woodwork
Other skills and activities I could assist in for the older-Scout program:
• Archery • Hockey • Slow-pitch softball
• Backpacking • Kayaking • Snow camping
• Basketball • Mechanics • Soccer
• Bowling • Mountain man • Spelunking
• Business • Orienteering • Survival
• Cross-country skiing • Rafting • Swimming
• Cycling • Rappelling • Tennis
• Downhill skiing • Rifle Shooting • Video/Photography
• Fishing • Sailing • Volleyball
• Free-style biking • Scuba diving • Whitewater canoeing
• Golf • Shotgun Shooting • Windsurfing
Is there anyone you know (relative, friend, neighbor) that would be willing to help, provide an interesting meeting idea or in some way help the troop?