Course Director Message

Welcome to the Bucks County Councils Eagles Nest 2012 National Youth Leadership Training

We as a staff have been preparing for the 2012 Eagles Nest course and are looking forward opening our tool box and to sharing our skills as we embark on our quest for meaning leadership.

Our slogan is Be, Know, Do and we will be exploring these concepts as we head down the trail of leadership over the 2 course weekends. I have put together a short list of things you will need to know.

Eagles' Nest NYLT FAQ

1. Do course participants wear their scout or venturer uniform at all times during the course?
2. How do I get to Ockanickon and what is Ockanickon's address?
3. My scout or venturer is not in Bucks County Council, can he attend BCC-NYLT?
4. When do I take my scout or venturer to BCC-NYLT?
5. What if I cannot get my scout or venturer to BCC-NYLT at 5pm on Friday?
6. When do I pick my scout or venturer up from BCC-NYLT?
7. What about medical forms?
8. What type of footwear should the scout or venturers have at BCC-NYLT?
9. Is there free time at BCC-NYLT?
10. Can the participants earn Merit Badges or other advancement?
11. What about the food at BCC-NYLT?
12. I heard there are critters at Ockanickon.
13. Does every scout or venturer need to bring a tent?
14. How are medications handled?
15. How do I become a member of the BCC-NYLT Youth Staff?
16. What about Adult Staff?
17. What does the Staff do?
18. Still have questions?

NYLT Origins

Course Background

Excerpts from the Course Overview
of the Youth Leadership Training Staff Guide (34490A)
©2010 BSA

National Youth Leadership Training is an exciting, action-packed program designed to provide youth members of the Boy scout or venturers of America with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops and in other situations demanding leadership of self and others.

For many years, junior leader training (JLT) was an important part of the leadership training continuum of BSA local councils throughout America. In 2003 and 2004, a task force of leadership experts and hundreds of scout or venturers in pilot courses across the nation reviewed and tested every aspect of the new NYLT syllabus, which incorporates the latest leadership ideas and presents fresh, vital, and meaningful training for today’s scout or venturers.

Several issues spurred the change of the JLT name to correspond with the updated course content. Among them was the desire to make clear that this is a national course. Also, studies have told us that our membership would prefer to be referred to as youth rather that junior, so the name became clear – National Youth Leadership Training.

What is NYLT?

National Youth Leadership Training is an exciting, action-packed program designed for councils to provide youth members with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops and in other situations demanding leadership of self and others.

For many years, junior leader training (JLT) was an important part of the leadership training continuum of BSA local councils throughout America. In 2003 and 2004, a task force of leadership experts and hundreds of Scouts in pilot courses across the nation reviewed and tested every aspect of the new NYLT syllabus, which incorporates the latest leadership ideas and presents fresh, vital and meaningful training for today's Scouts.