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Bear Paw Scout Camp - Mountain, WI for 6 years as a youth

Gardner Dam Scout Camp - Langlade, WI for numerous weekend campouts as a youth and adult.

Lefeber Northwoods Camps - Laona, WI

As a new leader to a troop that has not succeeded with the boy led patrol method in the past, my post is slightly different from the rest.

Here is what myself, along with a few of the other new leaders to our troop are putting in place to move the troop toward a boy led, patrol focused unit.

For the first time, we are going to have a new scout patrol, focused on building basic scout skills and advancing the boys through the First Class rank. Our goal is to get these boys meeting and working as a patrol, with the understanding that they are going to be our next wave of youth leaders. My hope is that we eventually get to mixed age patrols, however, I think that this is a necessary step to getting the boys to respond to the patrol method.

We are also planning to start holding a youth leadership campout every fall. This event would be attended by the youth leaders of the troop for the coming year, as well as the SM, ASM, etc. We will focus on team building and leadership skills, with the hope of returning home with a closer, more motivated team of youth leaders.

Our hope is that the combination of these two additions to the program will get us moving in the right direction.

Jim

Hi everyone-

Just wanted to introduce myself quickly. I am new to the site.

My name is Jim and I am an Asst. SM and Eagle Scout class of 1992. I have been hearing great things about the site as a resource and am looking forward to getting involved and sharing ideas/opinions with you all.