National Youth Leadership Training

The Boy Scouts of America has an exciting weeklong training experience that has proven very valuable in the training of junior leaders - National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT).  The Buckeye Council will offer NYLT in 2010 and your nominated Scouts are invited to participate.  The goal of the Conference is to offer the participants the Leadership and Scouting skills necessary to be effective leaders in their troops, while helping them experience the fun and challenge of Scouting at its best.  NYLT is run in a troop setting, utilizing the patrol method, and simulates a one month program of a troop, complete with troop meetings and an overnighter.

To attend, a Scout must be at least a First Class in rank, 13 years of age by the start of the course, currently filling a leadership position in the troop and be nominated by his SM.  The Scoutmaster Handbook recommends NYLT, “This should be a ‘must’ for the senior patrol leader.”  The conference is also endorsed in Scouting magazine, and in the Scoutmaster’s Junior Leader Training Kit. Discuss the conference with the members of your troop committee and the patrol leaders' council as soon as possible.  The conference will be conducted in a camp setting so it is very important that the Scout have skills in hiking, camping, and cooking.
 
 A “Scout’s Letter” you can share with Scouts and parents. 

NYLT nomination form for the Scoutmaster to fill out and turn in.   

NOMINATIONS: 
    Scout Nomination forms due in the Council office with $30 deposit by 5/14/10.

PRECOURSE MTG: MANDATORY!! 
    Sunday, May 16, 2010, 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm
    Faith United Methodist Church, 300  9th St, N. Canton, OH  44720 

NYLT DATES: 8 am Sunday, June 13 to noon Saturday, June 19, 2010
NYLT LOCATION: Camp McKinley, Lisbon, OH
COST:   $160 (includes everything).  $50 rebate for Scouts who attend NYLT and
                7R Summer Camp in the same summer.  A Trading Post may be available.

 NYLT Youth can earn this patch by attending NYLT for the week. However this is not the graduation patch, you must complete the growth agreements to earn the graduation patch.

The Scoutmaster can also earn this patch by sending a Scout  to NYLT and attending the Scoutmaster Conference at Camp Mckinley on Saturday, June 19, 2010, 10:00am.


SM – Ace McKinzie              Professional Advisor – Steven Stoner
28514 Buck Road                2301 13th Street NW
Beloit, OH  44609                Canton, OH  44708-3157                                                                                            
330-429-3171                      330-580-4272 ext 135
                                                sstoner@bsamail.org