Re: [Philmont]: Leadership approval question

Jill, this is a question better asked on Scouts-L.

Note that the Church has an already defined role in selection (or rather
approval) of adult leaders, because the Adult Leader Applications have
to be signed by the Chartered Organization Head or his/her designated
representative (i.e., the Chartered Organization Representative). It is
part of the CC's and COR's respective jobs to do background checks on
potential leaders, and to ensure that the Leaders are properly trained,
and also that they meet whatever additional training requirements
requested by the Church (for example, Catholic sponsored Units here must
have their leaders take a Diocese provided Child Abuse Seminar (which,
BTW, is beyond tedious)). In addition, the Chartered Organization Head
has to sign the ReCharter every year, which is blanket approval for the
retention of all adults registered in the Troop.

In local Scouting (Arlington, VA), I do not know of any non-LDS Troop
where the Church takes an active role in Leader selection and/or
approval - it's pretty much a rubber stamp. [LDS Units here have, for
the most part, their leaders appointed by the Stake Bishop, most often
on one year appointments. Again, before anyone starts to shriek,
remember I am talking the LOCAL protocol here - I have no idea what the
LDS Church does elsewhere.]

Bottom line to me, it looks like the Church wants to be involved in your
situation until (my guess) they are more familiar and more comfortable
with the process, at which point they'll likely delegate to the COR,
like most everyone else does.

Again, go to Scouts-L. They'll give you more than you could possibly
want on this topic.

jpsampson1@mmm.com wrote:
>
> Our troop is chartered through the local American Vets, but they do not
> have a place for us to meet. In the past, we have met at a local elementary
> school. While the school has been very gracious to allow us to meet there,
> the cafeteria facility is less than ideal for meetings and our meeting
> schedule is restricted by school holidays and vacations. Therefore, we have
> been looking into alternatives. A local church is considering allowing us
> to use their facility, and it is an ideal set-up. We have been able to
> answer all of their questions so for, except one. The want to know if there
> is a process to include them in the process of choosing future leaders.
> They are asking this to protect both the church and the scout troop, which
> I understand. I'm sure there must be other troops out there who are
> chartered by one organization, but meet elsewhere. Does anyone on the list
> have a leadership approval process in place? Does anyone foresee any
> problems? Thanks!
>
> Jill Sampson
>

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Received on Fri Jul 2 16:21:05 2004