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• Periodically reviewing and staying familiar with these resources is likely to improve the quality and safety of your troop program and to keep the youth in charge of that program.

1 Aims and Methods

• Aims and Methods of Scouting • This is the heart of Scouting. You have to understand these principles in order to understand what Scouting is all about.

2 Program Planning

• The whole point of this wiki is to be a resource during the program planning process where Scouts in Dallas-Fort Worth can easily figure out their options.

• Also see the wiki page with unofficial comments about Picking Destinations.

• Program Planning Tools to help keep the youth in charge and the program fun and safe.

• Annual Planning Conference.

• Monthly Planning and the PLC

• PLC Meeting Agenda Form

• Troop Meeting Agenda, including how to execute better troop meetings.

• Troop Meeting Agenda Form

• The Adventure Plan for monthly outdoor activities.

• Introduction

• TAP Steps Checklist to ensure that important issues are not overlooked when planning each outdoor activity.

• Courts of Honor, including sample agenda

3 Scouting Advancement

• Advancement and Awards

• Rank Requirements

• Merit Badges (click on each to see requirements)

• Guide to Advancement

4 Training

• Text

5 Scout Uniform

• Uniform Guide

• Scouts Insignia (answers the question: Where do the patches go?)

• Other Awards

• Knots on Adult Leader Uniforms • Official 1 • Official 2 • Unofficial 3 • Unofficial 4

6 Safety

• Scouting Safely

• Guide to Safe Scouting

• Annual Health and Medical Record Form

• Instructions for Incident Reporting, including physical injuries, violations of Youth Protection standards, and Near Miss Incidents.

7 Index of Official Scouting Forms

• Official Forms

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