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National Youth  Leadership Training

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What Is Its Purpose?

To provide youth members of the Boy Scouts of America with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops and in other situations demanding leadership of self and others.

NYLT is an exciting, action-packed six-day leadership training for Boy Scouts. The NYLT course centers around the concepts of what a leader must BE what he must KNOW and what he must DO. The key elements are then taught with a clear focus on HOW TO. The skills come alive during the week as the patrol goes on a Quest for the Meaning of Leadership.

The Youth Training Continuum

Youth leadership training is a three-phase training experience, and a common thread of the Leading EDGE^TM connects all three phases. The first phase begins at the home troop with the Senior Patrol Leader and Scoutmaster conducting a Troop Leader Training (click here for a Power Point Slide Show of NYLT). Phase two is the National Youth Leadership Training conducted by the Sequoia Council. This course schedule parallels the program month of a troop using patrol method and patrol members will find themselves going through the four stages of Team Development. The third phase of the continuum is the National Advanced Youth Leadership Experience (NAYLE), a weeklong camp at Philmont's Rocky Mountain Scout Camp, near Cimarron, New Mexico. NAYLE includes backcountry first aid, COPE, search and rescue in a unique back-county Philmont setting.    

National Youth Leadership Training offers the skills of visualizing success, setting goals to accomplish that vision and making a plan to get there, all core to developing the leader's role. The objectives of the conference are:

• To give participants the confidence and knowledge to run the troop program.
• To give participants a basic knowledge of leadership, team building & conflict resolution and help them relate these skills to their troop responsibilities.
• To give participants the opportunity to share ideas and experiences with Scouts from other troops.
• To create an atmosphere of Scouting at its best living by the Scout Oath and Law.
• To enhance the relationship between the participant/candidate and his Scoutmaster
• To have fun.

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To qualify for admission to National Youth Leadership Training a candidate must:

1. Be recommended by his Scoutmaster
2. Be at least 13 (14 preferred) 
3. Hold at least the rank of First Class
4. He should be proficient in his outdoor camping skills

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2010 Course Information

Monday, July 11, 2010 through Saturday, July 17, 2010

Camp Chawanakee's Family Camp at Shaver Lake, California

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Contact Information

Dean Christensen: Sequoia Council 2010 NYLT Scoutmaster/Course Director
Mark Jackson NYLT Course Registrar: 

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Photos

• Course Flyer 2010
• An article regarding the new NYLT Syllabus
• Consent To Treat
• Dismissal Policy
• Medical Form
• Personal Equipment List
• Download Participant Course Application 2010
• Download Information regarding NYLT Administration
• Directions to Camp Chawanakee (Google Maps)

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A Vision for Boy Scout Training

• We are recognized as one of the nation’s preeminent trainers of character and leadership. Our educational experiences for youth and adults are practical, flexible, integrated, progressive, and fun.
• They are specifically designed to:
  • Assist the BSA in fulfilling its mission;
  • Help adults deliver Scouting’s program and promise to boys;
  • Empower boys to lead their units and adventures; and ultimately, 
  • Develop leaders for America in the 21st century.
•  Mission of the National Boy Scout Training Task Force
  • The mission of the national Boy Scout Training Task Force is to develop, design and implement all Boy Scout training programs for youth and adults that councils, districts, troops and teams may use in meeting Boy Scouting’s objectives: to build character, to foster citizenship, to develop fitness.
•  Strategic Intent for Training
  • Every leader (boy & adult) committed and trained to deliver the promise of Scouting. 
  • The Boy Scouts trains leaders for America and the world.
  • The Boy Scouts provides leadership for America’s communities, businesses and institutions.
•  An Integrated System
  • A game with a purpose: Build character; train and develop leaders
  • A system to train and develop leaders
  • “Come to us and be trained as a leader.”
  • “Give us your future leaders, and we’ll train them as leaders.”
  • An Integrated System
  • Not pieces but a whole
  • The next part builds on and ties into the previous parts 
  • A journey—a process with no end
  • Recognition at each level
  • Put one part into practice and come back for the next
  • A common philosophy, approach, terminology and style
  • Streamlined: Necessary, Sufficient and Appropriate
  • Bit sized-chunks
  • Just-in-Time Training
  • Format determined by the intent
  • Boys and adults in parallel processes—sometimes together, sometimes apart, sometimes adults do the training and sometimes boys do the training
  • Clear-cut intended outcomes with metrics for measuring success
  • Training that is designed to empower Scout leaders to fulfill their promises

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