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Information Sources for Parents New to ScoutingFast StartThe "Fast Start" presentations will help you. They are designed for parents who have volunteered to help in the unit, but they are very useful for any parent. They help you understand Scouting and how your unit should work. This course, along several other great courses, can be taken online at the BSA Online Learning Center web site. If you don't have one already, you will be asked to create a user name and password to log into the course management system. There are courses for leaders volunteering in:
Questions?Would you like someone to call you to help answer any questions you may have? Go to http://www.joinscouts.net/join.htm. Or you can contact the Sammamish Trails *District Executive listed in the District Org Chart here. Talk to your unit leader (the Cubmaster, Scoutmaster, team coach, the crew president or advisor). Talk to your unit's commissioner. Come to Roundtable (2nd Thursday each month) and talk to anyone. Call or email the *District Commissioner, the *District Chairman, or our *District Executive. Their contact information is posted on our *District Organization Chart. New Leader EssentialsIf you want to know more, you can go to the "New Leader Essentials" training. This is offered most months on the second Thursday of the month, during "Roundtable." This gives you an overview of Scouting. More information on "New Leader Essentials" is in the Training Page here. All parents will find training useful anyway. We hope you will help in your child's unit, because the program simply does not work unless parents help, but the training also lets you know what your unit can be doing. For more information on the many training programs for adult Scout leaders, check our training pages.
* What's a "district"? Scouting in Redmond and Kirkland is in the Sammamish Trails District. Our district is pretty much the same area as the Lake Washington School District. Our district is part of Chief Seattle Council, which covers King County and most of the area west to the Pacific. If you come to "New Leader Essentials" training, all this will be more clear.
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