Merit Badge Sponsorships

Trapper Trails Council Youth Benefits

The Merit Badge Sponsorship Program provides opportunities for at‐risk youth in low‐income and culturally diverse areas to grow physically, mentally, and morally in after‐school and weekend activities. By attending Scouting’s structured, safe activities, Trapper Trails Council’s young people do not have as much idle time to explore drugs, alcohol, or find themselves in as many peer‐pressure activities. The Scouting program is a year‐round effort because the pressures on our young people increase every day. There is no better time than now to help guide youth in positive directions.

Scouting addresses at‐risk youth in our communities in the following ways:

  • Offering a place for youth to attend activities after school and on weekends where he or she will learn how to be physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
  • Teaching the youth how to avoid drug and alcohol abuse through the “Drugs: A Deadly Game” program.
  • Instructing youth how to recognize, resist, and report child abuse through the “It Happened to Me” and
    “A Time To Tell” programs.
  • Creating weekly opportunities at youth group meetings to assist the youth and young adults in learning a
    code of ethics: being trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.

Additionally, Scouting helps Trapper Trails Council’s at‐risk youth to focus on six critical elements of healthy youth development.

  • Strong personal values and character
  • Positive sense of self‐worth and usefulness
  • Caring and nurturing relationships with parents, other adults, and peers
  • A desire to learn
  • Productive / Creative use of time
  • Social adeptness

THANK YOU!!

With your funding, the Trapper Trails Council will ensure that the youth involved will register with the Boy Scouts of America, have opportunities to attend summer camps, own their own books and uniforms, and enjoy the same activities as youth involved in mature, self‐funded units. Your funding will also help us to create more Scout units, and to develop the units into self‐sustaining, successful programs.

To learn more, contact Gary Weeks.

 

 

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