Del-Mi District | Crossroads of America Council

School Night for Scouting

Boys in every elementary school in the district are given the opportunity to join the local Cub Scout Pack in the form of a School Night for Scouting in the Fall. Over one thousand boys accept the call to join our program by visiting one of our School Night programs. In order for these boys to be given the opportunity to experience being a Cub Scout, we need to have every Pack in the district schedule a School Night for the school that they serve.

2008 Fall School Night Campaign Proposed Schedule (pending location availability for each pack)
E. Carmel	W. Carmel	E. Fishers	W. Fishers	Westfield	Noblesville Tipton	Noblesville
Wed, Aug 20	Thurs, Aug 21	Tues, Aug 26	Wed, Aug 27	Thurs, Aug 28	Wed, Sept 3	Thurs, Sept 4
P. 105 P. 123 P. 131 P. 188 P. 197 P. 198	P. 112 P. 124 P. 125 P. 132 P. 134 P. 136	P. 110 P. 122 P. 130 P. 140 P. 150 P. 185 NEW Pack	P. 106 P. 108 P. 109 P. 170 P. 190 P. 199	P. 107 P. 118 P. 126 P. 129 P. 152 P. 207 P. 219	P. 100 P. 114 P. 116 P. 135 P. 594 P. 598	P. 103 P. 104 P. 121 P. 211 P. 654
Leader Training Schedule (Exact Locations to be announced at a later date.)
Wed, Aug 27 Carmel		Tues, Sept 2 Fishers		Wed, Sept 3 Westfield	Tues, Sept 9 Tipton	Wed, Sept 10 Noblesville

The following suggestions may help your pack in putting together a successful Fall Recruitment campaign.

Information sheet: Pack should develop an information sheet (promotional brochure) to give to potential new parents on what the pack does. It can be distributed to families at your back to school night, meet the teacher event, ice cream social, and to new parents at your School Night for Scouting.
Calendar of events: Provide the list of upcoming events to give to parents.
Pack fee structure: Provide an overview of fee’s charged and what the scout gets out of this.
Contact sheet: Provide a contact sheet, including how to contact the pack leadership. Ie.. phone numbers, e-mail, mail addresses
Web site: Provide the web site address for the pack on all promotional materials. Include up-to-date information on it.
Pack trainer: List the name of the pack trainer and what services they provide
Vacant pack positions: Have a listing of pack leadership positions that are vacant. Have at least one position or task for each parent.
Assistant Cubmasters: Recruit at least 1 assistant cubmaster from the Tiger parents.

These resources will help you to implement some of the suggestions listed above:

District Resources from www.del-mi.org:

Letter to Cubmasters and Committee Chairs from District Membership Team

Council Resources from www.crossroadsbsa.org:

Cub Scout Pack Program Planning: This page includes a program planning worksheet in Excel format that will walk you through the process of planning the pack's next year of activities and the budget necessary to make these events happen.
Fast Tracks Cub Scout Advancement Program: Letter | Flyer

National Scouting Resources from www.scouting.org:

Newsletter, Poster, and Calendar Templates: A monthly newsletter and an annual pack calendar can be two of the most important tools in publicizing the pack's excitement and fun year-round. At pack meetings, you can put up a poster-style version of the newsletter to keep everyone informed.
The Pack's First Three Months (13-010): This brochure was developed to help leaders get a new or reorganized unit off to a great start.
Cub Scout Den Leader Kit (13-134):The Cub Scout Leader Kit is provided by local councils to Cub Scout leaders in the fall of each year to help them get their units off to a successful start.
Program Ideas for Your First Month of Den Meetings (13-232): If there are any new boys in your Wolf, Bear, or Webelos den, use these program ideas to help them earn their Bobcat badge, which every boy in Cub Scouting must complete.
Cub Scout Program Helps (34304): For your convenience, the current and next month's program helps (from the annual Program Helps publication) can be downloaded from this Web site.
Cub Scout Program Themes: Here's a look ahead at the monthly program themes for Cub Scouting for the next few years.
Annual Pack Budget Plan ("Plan Your Ideal Year of Scouting"): This plan is geared to help you provide funding for you pack's annual program, obtain sufficient resources for activities, and involve the youth members and their families in the planning process

New Leader Brochures:

This series of brochures was designed to provide an at-a-glance orientation for new Cub Scout leaders.

Tiger Cub Den Leader (13-233) [PDF]
Cub Scout Den Leader (13-239) [PDF]
Webelos Den Leader (13-247) [PDF]
Cubmaster (13-237) [PDF]
Pack Committee Member (13-240) [PDF]
The Pack Trainer (13-152)

If you have questions, please contact the School Night Chair or one of the District Professionals.

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