Adult Leaders

All registered adults must complete training as outlined below. Any unregistered adult who comes into contact with our youth must
complete Youth Protection Training (online). Upon completion of any training please forward your certificate to the troop training
chairman, Tomi Morris.

  • Scoutmasters and Assistant Scoutmasters are considered trained when they have completed
  1. Fast Start: Boy Scouting (online)
  2. Youth Protection Training (online)
  3. This Is Scouting (online)
  4. Scoutmaster and Assistant Scoutmaster Leader Specific Training (register through Powder MIll or other area district)
  5. Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills (register through Powder Mill or other area district)

  • Troop Committee Members are considered trained when they have completed
  1. Fast Start: Boy Scouting (online)
  2. Youth Protection Training (online)
  3. This Is Scouting (online)
  4. Troop Committee Challenge (online)

  • Supplemental Training is available to adult leaders, both online and through districts, councils and national.

Youth Leaders

  • Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops (ILST) is used to teach Scouts with leadership positions about their new roles and
    how to most effectively reach success in that role. It is intended to help Boy Scouts in leadership positions within their troop
    understand their responsibilities and to equip them with organizational and leadership skills to fulfill those responsibilities. ILST is
    the first course in the series of leadership training offered to Boy Scouts and is a replacement for Troop Leadership Training.
    Completion of ILST is a prerequisite for Boy Scouts to participate in the more advanced leadership courses National Youth
    Leadership Training (NYLT) and the National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE). It is also required to participate in
    a Kodiak Challenge Trek. Troop 70 runs this course each January.

  • National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is an exciting, action-packed program designed for councils to provide youth
    members with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops and in other situations demanding leadership of
    self and others. NYLT is a six-day course. Content is delivered in a troop and patrol outdoor setting with an emphasis on immediate
    application of learning in a fun environment. Interconnecting concepts and work processes are introduced early, built upon, and
    aided by the use of memory aids, which allows participants to understand and employ the leadership skills much faster. Scouts may
    register through Del-Mar-Va or other area council.

  • National Advanced Youth Leader Experience (NAYLE) is an exciting program where young men enhance their leadership
    skills in the Philmont Backcountry. Scouts will expand upon the team building and ethical decision making skills learned in National
    Youth Leadership Training (NYLT). NAYLE uses elements of the Philmont Ranger Training as well as advanced Search and
    Rescue skills to teach leadership, teamwork and the lessons of selfless service. NAYLE will offer Scouts an unforgettable
    backcountry wilderness experience where they live leadership and teamwork, using the core elements of NYLT to make their
    leadership skills intuitive. The mission of the National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE) is to provide Scouts with a
    Philmont based wilderness encounter that motivates them to follow a life of helping others succeed based on the values expressed
    in the Scout Oath and Law. Scouts may register at www.nayle.org.

  • Kodiak Challenge is designed to be an adventure that pushes the boundaries of every participant - one that will encourage you
    to try new things that may be out of your comfort zone. It is an experience—but one that has its underpinnings in the application of
    the leadership skills they learned in the Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops or Crews, NYLT, and/or NAYLE. It is, as is all of
    Scouting, an adventure with a purpose.

  • The Powder Horn course is designed to help the troop, team, or crew by exposing older Scouts, Venturers, and adult leaders to
    safely conducted outdoor/high-adventure activities of a fun and challenging nature. The course provides an introduction to the
    resources needed to successfully lead youth through a program of outdoor adventure and is based upon giving participants an
    exposure to some outdoor/high-adventure activities. It is not a certification event. It is for any youth or adult interested in
    experiencing a unit-level, high-adventure program.