Venturing Leadership Skills Course (VLSC - Youth Training)

The Venturing Leadership Skills Course is the first step a Venturer encounters on his or her journey toward leadership development. This course is designed to be used by Advisors to teach leadership skills to all Venturers in the crew. It has nine leadership modules that begin with an activity and follow with a reflection. Completion of this course is a requirement for the Venturing Silver Award, and conducting the course is a requirement for the Venturing Advisor Award of Merit.

This course can be conducted by a crew or on the district level. Contact your Crew Advisor, President, or District Venturing Officers’ Association to arrange a training class.

For a training packet follow this link.

http://www.strotary.org/pdf/VenturingLeadershipSkills.pdf

Venturing Leader Specific Training (VLST Adult Training) This basic course explains Venturing to all adults new to Venturing. There are five sessions: Here's Venturing, Understanding and Protecting Youth, Leadership and Organization, Awards and Recognitions, and Resources and Program Planning. These sessions may be offered at one time or individually. It usually takes about 5 hours to complete. This course is required for the Advisor Key and Venturing Advisor Training Awards.

For a list of training opportunities go to the SHAC training schedule

http://www.samhoustonbsa.org/Home/Training/TrainingSchedule2/

Online Training

You can access multiple training courses online such as Fast Start and YPT

http://www.scouting.org/Applications/MyScoutingFull.aspx

Powder Horn Training

The Powder Horn course is designed to introduce and expose Venturing and Boy Scouting adult unit leaders to the activities and resources necessary to operate a successful outdoor/high adventure unit-level program. It is based on the eight core and eighteen electives found in the Venturing Ranger program. It is intended to help adult leaders get out of the box in finding and using resources and in the way they lead their unit-level high adventure programs. No high adventure skills are taught in this course. It is designed to have some disciplines introduced with a hands-on segment. Example: For scuba if a pool is available, it is suggested to do a Discover Scuba (PADI) session where participants get into a shallow pool and wear scuba gear. It is not scuba certification. Participants will not learn how to rock climb or shoot a skeet course, but will learn where to go to find those who can teach these skills to Boy Scouts and Venturers.

http://www.samhoustonbsa.org/Home/Training/PowderHorn/

21st Century Wood Badge Training

Wood Badge for the 21st Century is an adult leaders training course. It has four specific objectives.

• View Scouting globally, as a family of interrelated, values-base programs that provide age-appropriate activities for youth.
• Recognize the contemporary leadership concepts utilized in corporate America and leading government organizations that are relevant to our values-based movement.
• Apply the skills they learn from their participation as a member of a successful working team.
• Revitalize their commitment by sharing in an overall inspirational experience that helps provide Scouting with the leadership it needs to accomplish its mission on an ongoing basis.

Use these links to find useful information regarding Wood Badge courses.

http://www.woodbadge.org/ http://www.samhoustonbsa.org/Home/Training/WoodBadge/