Scouter Excellence and Employee Impact
A New Approach to Scouter Development
We achieve our Mission by empowering communities to provide young people with quality Scouting programs facilitated by volunteers. Ensuring that our volunteers are equipped with the knowledge and skills to be successful is critical. A new approach, called the Scouter Development model, aligns volunteer development with the Scout Method and The Four Elements of The Canadian Path.
A key component of this new learning model is the Scouter Development Map, a competency framework that describes skills associated with each Scouting role. The Wood Badge I and Wood Badge II programs are represented as subsets of skills on the Map and represent learning milestones for Scouters. This past year, 3,470 Scouters completed Wood Badge I for The Canadian Path, and 197 Scouters acquired Wood Badge II.
The Scouter Development Map helps Scouters set developmental goals with the help of a Support Scouter. Additionally, the Scouter Development Map can be used by Commissioners to help identify and develop candidates for succession planning.
Fully adopting the Scouter Development model will enhance our ability to deliver our Mission, getting more capable and confident Scouters supporting youth in communities while maintaining our focus on safety and program quality.
Engaging Scouters with a New Learning Platform — The David Huestis Learning Centre
Scouts Canada is very excited to have partnered with D2L (Desire2Learn) to implement a new Brightspace Learning Management System (LMS). This personalized, mobile-friendly and intuitive platform for online learning will enhance Scouts Canada’s training of volunteers and staff, tracking competency development using the Scouter Development model.
D2L is the software leader that makes learning experiences better. The cloud-based platform is easy to use, flexible and smart. With Brightspace, Scouts Canada can personalize the experience for every learner to deliver real results.
With an improved volunteer development platform, Scouts Canada will be able to recruit and retain qualified volunteers by providing them with the skills and knowledge they need to be confident and capable in their roles.
Creating an engaging learning experience will reduce the time-to-proficiency for key Scouting roles and will result in increased program quality.
Scouter Essentials Made Easy with The Woggle
The 2018-2019 Scouting Year saw our vision of an exciting, fun and relevant resource for Scouters come to life in The Woggle, a new quarterly newsletter featuring Scouter essentials made easy. With each issue, The Woggle highlights best practices, seasonal camping hacks, voices from our volunteers and much more.
Celebrating Scouter Commitment Across Canada
Each year, our Scouters collectively donate over two million hours of their time to ensuring that youth across Canada have access to great, safe Scouting experiences. This year, Scouts Canada was honoured to recognize many Scouters and youth for their contribution to well-rounded youth development.
Commendations = 55,977
Outstanding Service Medals = 8
Gallantry and Fortitude = 29
Meritorious Conduct = 34
Jack Cornwell Decoration = 3
50+ Years = 6
Long Service Medal = 169
Medal of the Maple = 94
Top Section Awards = 1,241
Making an impact as a Scouts Canada Employee
Across Canada each day, our Scouts Canada team of employees makes a positive difference in the lives of today’s young leaders. We know that engagement of our staff is important, which is why we are striving to achieve a healthy work-life balance, offering more professional development opportunities and enhancing our employee benefits. We have also realigned staff portfolios, resulting in industry-leading staff engagement. Our dedicated team has demonstrated excellent support for our members by delivering 3,375 No One Left Behind subsidies, fielding 22,205 registration support inquiries for parents and 31,891 No One Left Behind queries, issuing 832 contracts/agreements/certificates of insurance and hundreds of charitable receipts, processing expenses and supporting major Scouting events like the World Scout Jamboree.
Siobhan Ward
Working at Scouts Canada, I feel extremely lucky and proud to play a part in helping youth foster leadership through adventures, take on new challenges, and contribute to creating a better world and brighter future.
Cassandra Sharp
Board of Governors
The strategic direction of Scouts Canada is charted by the organization’s Board of Governors (BoG), which is made up entirely of volunteers except for the Executive Commissioner and CEO. Thank you to our 2018–2019 Board of Governors for its contributions to Scouting in Canada.
Richard Thomas
Chair of the Board
Kerri Onken
Vice-Chair, Finance
Adam Benson
Vice-Chair, Strategic
Steve Kent
Past Chief Commissioner & Chair of the Nominating Committee
Tim Welch
National Commissioner
Annabelle Loder
National Youth Commissioner
Andrew Price
Executive Commissioner & CEO
Scouts Canada has always given me confidence, whether it was as a youth in the Scouting program, as a volunteer later on or as a current staff member. Being able to help create program to allow more youth to develop confidence and become successful people is an incredible experience.