Not Everyone Wears a Uniform
In Scouts BSA there are so many opportunities to volunteer. You want to get involved, but you’re not sure where to start. Here is a step-by-step guide to get you started. Everyone has different skills and ways they can contribute to make the Scouts BSA experience meaningful. No matter how you want to get involved, thank you for making the first move to volunteer with the scouts.
Being helpful is part of the Scout Law, a value we seek to instill in everyone. The best way to help is not to wait until someone asks, but by providing assistance when you know someone needs it. Troops need drivers and more. Your Scoutmaster or Committee Chair can guide you.
Volunteering is another way you can get involved. Being a volunteer in the BSA means you have registered as an adult and have gone through an approval process.
Scouts BSA needs adults with particular skills and hobbies to be merit badge counselors, there are 138 merit badges so there is lots of need. They range from nuclear science to welding, from first aid to search and rescue, from programming to plant science. Being a merit badge counselor is a great place to start. Often every registered adult in the troop counsels a merit badge or two.
Assistant Scoutmasters and Committee Members
Scouts BSA has two types of volunteers other then merit badge counselors, those who help the Scoutmaster with the program side, versus those who help the Committee Chair on the business side of the Troop.
Being a leader, such as Scoutmaster, Assistant Scoutmaster, Committee Chair or Committee Member, means you are a registered volunteer that takes on a personal commitment to ensure that Scouting is being delivered in a safe manner, the way it was designed, and in a way that makes it meaningful to everyone involved. Leaders take training for their position.
Click here to learn more about being an adult volunteer in Scouts BSA.