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Why Scouting? Why should I join the Scouting Program?
Scouting provides youth in our community with a safe, structured, nurturing environment. In turn, Scouting fosters learning and discovering, while instilling values.
While various activities and youth groups teach basic skills and promote teamwork, Scouting goes beyond that and encourages youth to achieve a deeper appreciation of their community. Early in their Scouting experience, boys learn the value of serving others.
Scouting provides boys with a sense that they are important as individuals. It is communicated to boys that those in the Scouting family care about what happens to them.
Finally, and perhaps most important, Scouting promotes activities that lead to personal responsibility and high self-esteem. As a result, when hard decisions have to be made, a boy can resist negative peer pressure and make the right choice.
Crisis of Character:
Boys At-Risk
Recent Studies Indicate boys today are at risk. They are:
33% More likely than girls to drop out of high school.
200% More likely than girls to be diagnosed with learning disabilities.
24% Less likely to enter or graduate from college than in 1970.
30% More likely to use cocaine than high school girls.
200% More likely to commit suicide between ages 5-14 than girls.
Words To Live By
Mission
The mission of the Boy Scouts of
America is to prepare young people to
make ethical and moral choices over their
lifetime by instilling in them the values of
the Scout Oath and Law.
Scout Oath
On my honor I will do my best to do my
duty to God and my country and to obey
the Scout law; to help other people at all
times; to keep myself physically strong,
mentally awake, and morally straight.
Scout Law
A Scout is:
Trustworthy Obedient
Loyal Cheerful
Helpful Thrifty
Friendly Brave
Courteous Clean
Kind Reverent
Boy Scouts of America:
Solutions in Action
Men who were Scouts are more likely than those who have never been
Scouts to:
• Graduate from high school (91% vs. 87%).
• Graduate from college (35% vs. 19%).
• Earn higher annual household incomes ($80,000 vs. $61,000).
• Value family relationships highly (81% vs. 72%).
• Have lifelong friendships (89% vs. 74%).
• Believe helping others should come before one's own self-interest (92% vs. 83%).
* Scouts are more likely than boys who are not Scouts to report they earn mostly A's (25% vs. 17%).
Scouting Teaches Life Skills
Scouting also provides youth with skills that help them cope with any situation. Youth say Scouting has taught them to:
• Always give their best effort
• Always be honest
• Treat others with respect
• Set goals
• Stay physically fit
• Take care of the environment
The Boy Scouts of America provides boys with programs and activities that allow them to enjoy new experiences, provide service to others, develop self-confidence, and build their character.
A recent study conducted by Harris Interactive shows that Scouting programs develop character in boys which positively affects them throughout their lives.
The Boy Scouts of America works to give boys a brighter future.
Katahdin Area Council
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