Cascadia Council will be hosting a number of upcoming in person training events. One of those will be at Camp Barnard. This will be an overnight camp and is is geared towards senior youth, and both new and experienced section Scouters and their families. This will be a full weekend of training sessions with food included and activities for children attending with their Scouter-parent..

When: November 4th at 6pm - November 6th at 11am
Where: Camp Barnard (3202 Young Lake Road, Sooke)

Registration: $50/person attending (+Doubleknot fees and GST/PST)

We welcome you to join us for a fun-filled weekend of Scouter Development – and for the whole family!

Who is this weekend for?

• 3^rd and 4^th year Scouts, Venturers, or Rovers

• All new and experienced Section Scouters

• Your families (youth attending camp with a participant parent should be age 5+; younger children may attend but MUST have their own non-participant adult registering with them. No unaccompanied children under the age of 5)

• Potential Volunteers and Interested Parents are welcome!

We are offering two streams:

Junior stream includes:

• Scouting basics

• Anatomy of meetings

• Standing camp planning

• activities

• hard skills (lashing, knife skills, fire lighting

Senior stream includes:

• Scouting basics

• Youth Led

• Standing camp planning

• Hard skills (knots, pioneering, permits

• hard skills (lashing, knife skills, fire lighting)

• Either advance camp skills/prep OR basic camp skills and gear maintenance

Alternative stream includes:

• Supporting canoeing – a three hour session intended to help support a primary canoe lead when taking youth on flatwater.

• Participants can opt out of block 1 and 2 OR block 3 and 4 to attend either the morning or the afternoon session – subject to space in the session (see schedule, below)

Registration includes:

• Mug up on Friday, food and drink all day Saturday plus breakfast on Sunday morning

• We ask that you pack your own travel mug and water bottle

• There are several cabins available. Families can share a cabin. Scouters and youth may choose to share with other participants (respecting the BP&P) or to bring their own tents. Private cabins are not likely to be available unless there are special needs that require such.

• Youth will both participate in sessions AND have their own programming.

Schedule

Friday:

• 6pm: check in

• 7pm: set up cabins

• 8pm: Truth and Reconciliation Day - Raven Reads - update from Scouts Canada

• 9pm: casual campfire

Saturday:

Sunday:

• 8am: Breakfast

• 9am: Scouts' Own - how to 

• 10am: clean up

• 11am: closing

Event organizers will email a packing list a week before the training weekend..

For any questions, please reach out to: Chantelle Cutting at 1stsooke@scouts.ca