Strengthening Youth Through Scouting

Scout-age youth experience dramatic physical and emotional growth. Scouting offers them opportunities to channel much of that change into productive endeavors and to find the answers they are seeking for many of their questions. 

Skills and Responsibilities

In the outdoors, youth have opportunities to acquire skills that make them more self-reliant. They can explore hiking, paddling and camping and will take on new responsibilities with other youth. There is no greater teacher than the outdoors. 

Character and Values

Scouting programs instill in youth the values found in the Scout Oath and Scout Law. Scouting helps youth develop academic skills, self-confidence, ethics, leadership skills, and citizenship skills that influence their adult lives