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This page is explains what each training actually is and who it is for. There are alot of different trainings that advisors and youth may go through and we understand that advisors may not know which they need and should take. We've sorted the trainings so that you may find and learn about them easier. If the is a known scheduled training in the future, there will be a link directing you to our events page and calendar. If you are hosting or know of a scheduled training that you would like to invite others to, please let us know and we will add it to our calendar.
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Youth Training
- Venturing Youth Protection Training (YPT)
All Venturers should go through the Youth Portion of Venturing YPT. This training helps teach youth how to deal with situations that they might experience.
- Who: All Venturers and Sea Scouts
- Recommended: Every 2 years
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- Venturing Crew Officers' Orientation
This online orientation helps newly elected officers understand their roles in their crew or ship.
Who: All Venturers and Sea Scouts
- Who: All Venturers and Sea Scouts
- Recommended: For Newly Elected Officers
Click here to go through this Orientation Now
- VLSC
This course is designed to be used by crew Advisors to teach leadership skills to all Venturers in the crew. It is a series of leadership modules divided into four categories: vision, communication, organization, and synergism. Each module is introduced by an activity and followed by 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.
- Who: All Venturers and Sea Scouts
- Recommended: For all youth interested in obtaining the Silver Award
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- Kodiak
The Kodiak Venturing leadership course is unique in that it is offered in an exciting and challenging atmosphere using whatever high-adventure resources you have available. Your crew or council could offer a course backpacking or rafting down a river away from your council or in your local area. Kodiak teaches leadership skills in a fun way that is internalized by the Venturers who take the course. In other words, it is a challenging high-adventure trek with a simple and fun leadership course included. Kodiak is not taught indoors or in a classroom; it is done completely outdoors using nature’s examples of leadership. Kodiak is a teen leadership development course that: is a week or two weekends long,includes experiential learning in a nontraditional setting, not indoors in a classroom, is based on nature, teaches only five leadership commissions (skills), is extremely fun!
- Who: All Venturers and Sea Scouts
- Recommended: For all youth interested in Leadership Positions
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- Kodiak X
Kodiak X is a weekend leadership challenge course that builds on the leadership commissions learned in Kodiak. The exercises in this program are also designed for 5-8 participants. During the weekend, participants will review what they learned at Kodiak, and learn two additional commissions. Kodiak X is a teen leadership development course that: builds on Kodiak, is one weekend long, is a leadership challenge course, adds two additional commissions (skills), can be both indoors and outdoors, uses leadership challenge scenarios, uses simple, inexpensive props.
- Who: All Venturers and Sea Scouts
- Prerequisites: Kodiak
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- SEAL
Training is a petty officer (youth) leadership training course offered by the National Sea Scouting Committee. This is a one week, hard core leadership course that is conducted at sea. If you successfully complete the course you will be awarded the SEAL Training Award, which is a silver pin with twin dolphins, to be worn on your uniform (see above). This course is a leadership course, not a seamanship course. It covers such topics as preparing, goal setting, organizing, supervising, commanding, communicating, training, motivating, and other skills that will help you in functioning as a leader in your Ship and in life. To attend a SEAL class you must be a registered Sea Scout. You must have earned the Seaman Ordinary rank prior to attending SEAL training, and you must have a thorough, working knowledge of Chapter four of the Sea Scout Manual.
- Who: All Sea Scouts
- Recomended: For all youth interested in Leadership Positions
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Adult Training Basic Venturing Adult Leader Training
- Adult Venturing Youth Protection Training (YPT)
Venturing YPT is also offered as part of the Venturing Leader Specific training for adults but since it is recommended that adults retake YPT every 2 years the course may be held separately. Venturing YPT has a separate training for both youth and adults.
- Who: All Venturing Leaders
- Recommended: Every 2 Years
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- Fast Start
This guide is designed to assist the newly recruited Venturing crew Advisor in using the Venturing program planning process to get a crew up and running and off to a successful start. Highlights include program goals, Venturing methods, crew orientation, steps to getting your crew up and running, leadership position responsibilities, and hints for successful crew operations. It also provides information on suggested crew activities, cooperative and problem-solving games, and suggested agendas.
- Who: All Venturing Leaders
- Recomended: All Adult Leaders take Before going on activities with their new crew or ship.
- Online Option: Click here for infomation
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- New Leader Essentials
An overview of Scouting and its leadership from Tigers to Venturing. Required before any other leadership training.
- Who: All Venturing Leaders
- Recomended: All adult Leaders take before going on activities with their new crew or ship.
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- Venturing Leader Specific
This training introduces the new adult crew leader to Venturing by providing basic information needed to successfully operate a crew. This information includes the purpose and mission of Venturing, characteristics of Venturer-aged youth, organization and leadership of the crew, and program planning and officer training. Venturing Leader Specific provides detailed training and required Youth Protection Training for the Venturing leader positions.
- Who: Who: Crew Advisor, Associate Advisors, and members of the Crew Committee
- Prerequisite: New Leader Essentials
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- Safe Swim Defense
Before a BSA group may engage in swimming activities of any kind, a minimum of one adult leader must complete Safe Swim Defense training, have a commitment card (No. 34243) with them, and agree to use the eight defenses in this plan.
- Who: All Venturing and Sea Scout Leaders
- Recomended: Adult Leaders take before going on water activities with their crew or ship.
- Valid: For only two years
- Online Option: Click here for infomation
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- Safety Afloat
Safety Afloat has been developed to promote boating and boating safety and to set standards for safe unit activity afloat. Before a BSA group may engage in an excursion, expedition, or trip on the water (canoe, raft, sailboat, motorboat, rowboat, tube, or other craft), adult leaders for such activity must complete Safety Afloat Training, have a commitment card with them, and be dedicated to full compliance with all nine points of Safety Afloat.
- Who: All Venturing and Sea Scout Leaders
- Recomended: Adult Leaders take before going on boating activities with their crew or ship.
- Valid: For only two years
- Online Option: Click here for infomation
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- NASBLA Basic Water Safety Class
This National Assn of State Boating Legislative Administrators (NASBLA) approved Basic Water Safety Class may be accomplished easily through online study at the California Dept of Boating and Waterways website or through classroom study in United States Power Squadrons / US Coast Guard Auxiliary's "America's Boating Class (ABC)". The Sea Scouting program is unique in requiring courses from outside the BSA organization.
- Who: All Sea Scout Leaders
- Recomended: Adult Leaders take before going on boating activities with their crew or ship.
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Adult Training Supplemental Venturing and Sea Scout Adult Leader Training
- Powder Horn
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.
- Who: All Venturing Leaders
- Recomended: Adult Leaders take before engaging in extensive activities
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- Sea Scout Advanced Leader Training (SALT)
Offered during summer Venturing Week at the Philmont Training Center. Provides comprehensive study of ship operations, including interface with squadron, area fleet special events and national resources. Special programs available for families while their Scouter is in class. Courses fill quickly, and Council recommendation is required.
- Who: All Sea Scout Leaders
- Recomended: Adult Leaders take before engaging in extensive activities
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- Seabadge
National advanced leadership course. Weekend course offered annually at the Region level. Basic Adult Leader Training and one year registered Sea Scout tenure is required. Graduates wear Trident pin and square-knot.
- Who: All Sea Scout Leaders
- Prerequisite: Basic Adult Leader Training
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- Woodbadge
Outstanding team-building experience. National advanced leadership course focuses on ability to lead groups of youth and adults. Offered semi-annually in Spring and Fall. Each course conducted over two weekends.
- Who: All Scout Leaders
- Prerequisite: Basic Adult Leader Training
Click here for the High Adventure Team Website
- Backpack Awareness
Prepares Scouters to lead a safe and enjoyable high adventure outing. Conducted by the Council High Adventure Team.
- Who: All Scout Leaders
- Recomended: For Leaders taking their units Backpacking
Click here for the High Adventure Team Website
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Training for Sea Scouts and Sea Scout Leaders Vessel Operators Training
- United States Power Squadrons Course In: Seamanship Certification (S)
Basic boat handling course. Covers responsibilities of a vessel operator. Certification includes basic competencies of anchoring, line handling, rules of the road, and marlinspike seamanship.
- Who: All Sea Scout Leaders
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- United States Power Squadrons Course In: Piloting Certification (P)
Primary certification for navigation of a vessel within sight of land. Subjects include plotting a course, determining position, chart knowledge, navigation aids and compass.
- Who: All Sea Scout Leaders
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- United States Power Squadrons Course In: Advanced Piloting Certification (AP)
Advanced certification for navigation of a vessel within sight of land. Subjects include advanced course plotting, set and drift, calculating tide height, calculating bridge clearance, advanced compass and advanced navigation aids.
- Who: All Sea Scout Leaders
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- United States Power Squadrons Course In: Sailing, Cruise Planning, Engine Maintenance, Marine Electronics, Weather, Instructor Qualification
These elective courses provide certifications necessary for Skippers and Mates to instruct and approve Sea Scout Advancement Requirements.
- Who: All Sea Scout Leaders
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Training for All Scouts Skills Training
- Roundtable
Held monthly in each District. Excellent way to keep on top of what’s happening and to develop relationships with other leaders in the District.
- Who: All Youth and Scout Leaders
- Recommended: Both Youth and Advisors should attend their Venturing Breakouts or request the District to have one.
Click here for more information on the nearest Roundtable.
- Scouting Leadership Conference
Largest training event in the Council. Does not replace Basic Leader Training. Held the first Saturday in November at a local school. More than 100 courses offered on subjects designed to broaden knowledge of various subjects from outdoor cooking to advancement. Includes classes for Youth Leaders. Large Midway has displays by different Scouting activities, community organizations, government agencies and local suppliers.
- Who: All Youth and Scout Leaders
- Recommended: For Advisors looking for ways to improve their crew or ship
Click here for the Scouting Leadership Conference Website.
- Trainer Development Conference
Conducted semi-annually to provide additional tools and techniques for leading and training others. All Scouters who lead and train others should take this course.
- Who: All Youth and Scout Leaders
- Recommended: For Advisors looking for ways to improve their crew or ship
Click here for the Trainer Development Conference Website.
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