BSA National and our local Hawkeye Area Council provide training for adults so we may have a quality program.  Just as every year we add Scouts, we also need to add trained adult leaders. BSA National provides Adult Leader Training online.  Popular training includes:

• Youth Protection Training (required for all active adults in the troop)

• Optional role-specific training can be found on https://my.scouting.org by clicking on the BSA Learn Center logo then Scouts BSA

However, the most important training is hands-on, in-person adult Scouts BSA Leader training provided by the Hawkeye Area Council. The Hawkeye Area council has an Adult Leader Training page at http://www.hawkeyebsa.org/training/  The adult Scouts BSA Leader training is held once in the Fall and once in the Spring. The training has two parts; one is in a classroom setting and another is in an outdoors setting where you learn outdoor skills.  There are approximately six hours in the classroom, and then a weekend campout at Camp Wakonda. (The six classroom hours are either all in a single day, or spread over two days depending on how they decide to deliver it.)