I never really thought of the internet as a deeply personal experience but in my case it has sort of turned into that. What I would like this site to do for those who navigate it is to feel a "sharing of experience" with me as I guide Scouts through our style of Junior Leader Training. As you "click" through this site, you may find little odds-n-ends of quotes and phrases and paragraphs here and there all about leadership that you wouldn't expect to find. Scouters know how time can be a precious commodity especially when one has to work for a living so let me THANK YOU in advance for taking a look at this JLT site and I hope it can help you in some way towards a mutually beneficial endeavor.

I am Scoutmaster in Troop 659, Cheektowaga, NY. My personal passion is Junior Leader Training. Our course runs throughout the entire 'Scout-Year' from October through early June. We hold Leadership classes once a month at regular meetings & two classes each month at our regularly scheduled campouts. We then hold a 'Graduation' weekend campout in early June. To my knowledge, it is the most comprehensive and elaborate system of Junior Leader Training done by any individual Boy Scout Troop.

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As a personal project, I have been building a "Travelling JLT Memorabilia" display. This is now an ongoing project for me. I will soon include a recent picture of it somewhere in the site so I'll keep you posted. Meanwhile if you or anyone you know is willing to part with any type of JLT patch or neckerchief, I would be very interested in purchasing those items. Please get a hold of me by way of my "Contact Page" to let me know the details.

Thank you very much!

HOW DOES A SCOUT QUALIFY TO TAKE OUR COURSE?
__________The Troop JLT course is mainly for 2nd-Year Scouts who are at least 12 yrs old. They must be active and must have attended at least one week of Summer Camp. Sometimes we'll have boys who come into the Troop other than transitioning from ours or another Cub Pack or even a 'transfer' Scout who may be a little older. Those Scouts would also qualify for the course as long as they have been active and have attended Summer Camp. The basic philosophy of this is that we feel that they have already made at least a year and a half committment to being in the program. We are primarily interested in working with active Scouts. We put a great deal of work into the course and do everything we can to make sure that, at this point, they are 'serious' about Scouting.