Leadership 

1. Consult Troop Leader and click on positions either under YOUTH POSITIONS OF RESPONSIBILITY (under 18 years) or ADULT (18 yrs. +)

2. Double check with our Troop's Leadership Position Responsibilities

3. In addition, use the Pocket Cards to list your goals for the new position as well as have a reference to your position's responsibilities.

Orange County Council is home to Wiatava Lodge 13 of the Order of the Arrow. Visit wiatava.ocbsa.org for more information

Unit elections are permitted in Scouts BSA, Venturing, and Sea Scout units. The Order of the Arrow membership requirements are as follows:

• Be a registered member of Scouting America

• Have experienced 15 nights of Scout camping while registered with a troop, crew, or ship within the two years immediately prior to the election. The 15 nights must include one, but no more than one, long-term camp consisting of at least five consecutive nights of overnight camping, approved and under the auspices and standards of Scouting America. Only five nights of the long-term camp may be credited toward the 15-night camping requirement; the balance of the camping (10 nights) must be overnight, weekend, or other short-term camps of, at most, three nights each. Ship nights may be counted as camping for Sea Scouts.

• At the time of their election, youth must be under the age of 21, and hold one of the following ranks corresponding to the type unit in which they are being considered for election: Scouts BSA First Class rank, the Venturing Discovery rank, or the Sea Scout Ordinary rank or higher, and following approval by the Scoutmaster, Crew Advisor or Sea Scout Skipper, be elected by the youth members of their unit.

• Adults (age 21 or older) who meet the camping requirements may be selected following nomination to and approval by the lodge adult selection committee.

For more information about the Order of the Arrow, please visit oa-bsa.org

Orange County Council holds two NYLT courses every year: a 6-day summer course at Schoepe Scout Reservation at Lost Valley, and a two-weekend fall course at Oso Lake Scout Camp.

In order to attend a NYLT course, a youth must have the following qualifications by the beginning of the course:

• Must be a registered member of a Scouting unit.

• Must have a current BSA Health and Medical Record form parts A, B, and C.

• As of March 1, 2019, Scouts BSA members (male and female) must be at least 13. They must have completed Introduction to Leadership Skills for Troops. For 2019 only, an exception will be granted for girls registered in Scouts BSA to attend NYLT without first achieving the First Class rank. Boys registered in Scouts BSA will still be required to earn the First Class rank before attending NYLT.

• Venturers and Sea Scouts (male and female) must be at least 14, or 13 and have completed eighth grade, and fall within the maximum age allowance for their program. They must have completed Introduction to Leadership Skills for Crews or Ships. It is recommended that they have had at least one year of camping experience. While NYLT is not an outdoor skills course, it is important that each participant have basic camping and outdoor cooking experience.

• Have a unit leader recommendation.

Visit scouting.org/nylt and nylt.ocbsa.org for more information about NYLT!