Resources

• Troops 505 and 1505 Policy Manual 2019

• IL Mandatory Reporting (Guidance) (PDF)
  The Illinois Child Abuse Hotline is 1-800-252-2873 (1-800-25-ABUSE).
  
  BSA has established 844-SCOUTS1 (844-726-8871), a dedicated 24-hour helpline to receive reports of known or suspected abuse or behavior that might put a youth at risk.

  • Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act (ANCRA)

  •  Mandated Reporter Manual

  • State Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Numbers

  • Youth Protection

  • Guide to Safe Scouting

• Adult Driving Safety Policy 2015

• Troops 505 and 1505 Conduct and Discipline Policy

• Troops 505 and 1505 Electronics Policy 

• Adult Camping Rules

• Personal gear list 

• Moving from Cub Scouts to Scouts

• Wilderness First Aid Docs  -WFA Eval 1.pdf -  WFA Eval 2.pdf  -  WFA Eval 3.pdf

• US Scouting Service Project— a wonderful collection of sites filled with valuable info for leaders and scouts 

• Scoutmaster Resources — one of the US Scouting Service Project websites with info for leaders.

• Troop Program Features include 36 Monthly Themes with Troop Meeting and Activity plans.

• Youth Protection Guidelines

•  Guide to Safe Scouting (Web site)

• Guide to Safe Scouting (PDF)

• Winter Sports Safety -- (Helmets Update 2009)

• Youth Protection 

  • Youth Protection and Adult Leadership

  • How to Protect your Children for Child abuse: A Parent's Guide

  • Child Abuse Reporting Requirements (65Kb PDF)

• Official BSA Forms - This site has all the official, updated forms.

• Merit Badge Counselor  Information - used to add a merit badge to an existing Merit Badge Counselor

• Boy Scout Leader Online Training

• Junior Leadership Training (Outline for training)

• Leader Knots

• Leave No Trace

• Leave No Trace 2

• National Order of The Arrow Web Site

• Troop Neckerchief logo

• Knot Pages

  • Ropes, Knots And Lashing (2.25 Mb PDF)

  • Get Knotted! Animated Knots for Scouts

  • The U.S. Scouting Project-The Knotting Dictionary of Kannet

  • Knots for Scouts (How to tie 10 essential Scouting knots)

  • Animated Knots by Grog
    Essential knots for scouting with animated examples.

  • Ropes, Knots & Lashings 11x17 poster (151 Kb PDF)

  • Scout knots (75 Kb Word Doc)

  • When to Use Knots and Lashings (150 Kb PDF)

  • Timber and clove hitch and how to lash video (very good)
     

• Camping

  • Calculating Gas Costs  (14 KB Excel file)

  • Weekend Campout Planning Guide (PDF)

  • Weekend Camp Services (82 Kb PDF)

  • Cold Weather Camping Information (6.38 Mb PDF)

  • Mini Adventure How to (164 Kb PDF)

  • Campfire Program Planner (475 KB PDF)

  • List of Campsites in several states from Roundtable (228 KB Excel file)

  • BSA Camping. org

  • Camp  Recipes (21 Kb Word doc)

  • Skits (93Kb PDF)

  • Cheers (19Kb PDF)

  • Songs (34Kb PDF)

  • Flag Retirement Ceremony  Doc1

  • Flag Retirement Ceremony  Doc2
    

• Directions

  • Directions to Green Valley (71 Kb PDF)

  • Directions to Von Oven Scout Reservation 

  • Directions to Camp Big Timber Elgin, IL
       

• Cooking

  • Two Fat Scoutmasters Cooking Demo (22Kb PDF)

  • The MacScouter Cooking for Scouts and Scouters Guide. Dutch oven recipes, The Geezer Cookbook, Chili recipes, etc. 

  • Campfire Cooking How to choose a site and build a fire for cooking, and recipes for campfire cooking.

  • Forget The Granola: Camp Cooking Goes Gourmet NPR

  • Dutch Oven Cooking. (1.3 Mb PDF)

  • Dutch Oven Resources ( 75Kb Word Doc)

  • Geezer's Cookbook. One of the best camp cookbooks ever. Here is a link to 182 Kb PDF

  • 505 Dad's Menus – Taste of what the dads cook at our campouts 
     

• WOOD BADGE RESOURCES

  • Wood Badge is the most advanced training available to Boy Scout Leaders.

  • Gilwell is the name given to a place where Shooting's Wood Badge training takes place.
     

• Scout Humor

  • Universal Rules of Camping  (11 Kb PDF)

  • You might be taking your scouting too serious if... (20 Kb PDF)

  • More Scouting Humor..
       

• Games

  • MacScouter - Great Game Rescouces

  • Boy Scout Trial

  • G. S. Ripley's Games for Boy Scouts