Boy Scouts of America

2025 International Camp Staff Program

Learn more about how your council can take part in 2025!

For those looking to add an exceptional program feature to their summer camp in 2025, take a look at the International Camp Staff Program (ISCSP)!
 
The aim of the program is to bring American scouts into contact with other scouts across the globe. Scouts can learn, firsthand, from the international camp staffers about their Scouting program, and also their country, culture, and customs. For many scouts this could be their first real chance to meet someone from another country and a part of summer camp they will remember forever.
 
For more information about the ICSP councils are invited to indicate their interest by completing the short form https://bit.ly/ICSPCouncils2025. 
 
The great service rendered by the international camp counselors is that they bring to camp the flavor of international Scouting and give significance to the world brotherhood ideal. Many young scouts do not realize that scouting is a worldwide program with over 50 million members in over 170 countries.
 
A great article on the WOSM website at https://www.scout.org/news/3-benefits-international-friendship discusses how having friends from different parts of the world can change our scouts’ lives. International connections and friendships can help scouts in their personal development and fulfilment. They will learn to appreciate commonalities and differences, expand their perspectives, develop new skills, and maybe even enjoy unique travel experiences.
 
Three big benefits of having international friends are gaining a global vision, improving communication skills and feeling at home around the world. Scouting is about helping our future leaders be prepared for their futures. Through an ICSP participating scouts are likely to learn about a new culture, traditions, habits, foods, language, ideas and more. Scouts will laugh as they overcome communication barriers and learn that a smile is a universal language. 
 
The International Camp Staff Program is approved, certified and continually reviewed by Scouting America. Many will remember that in the past this program was a function of the international department staffed by a director and several people. With the restructuring of many aspects of Scouting America the ICSP is now a function of Scouting America’s International Committee. The goals, purposes and objectives of the program remain the same. What was once an entirely in-house program now requires some specialized services by an external visa vendor that is arranged through the ICSP team.
 
Councils are billed $520 by the visa vendor, but not until they have selected an international camp staff participant and notified the ICSP Team. Councils should have prospective international staff members participate in a zoom interview and sign a staff agreement just like US staff members.
 
Please submit any questions, concerns or suggestions you might have and indicate through the interest form at https://bit.ly/ICSPCouncils2025. 
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Brea Baygents

Bray Barnes

Director, Global Security Innovative
Strategies

Bray Barnes is a recipient of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award, Silver
Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Learning for Life Distinguished
Service Award. He received the Messengers of Peace Hero award from
the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and he’s a life member of
the 101st Airborne Association and Vietnam Veterans Association. Barnes
serves as a senior fellow for the Global Federation of Competitiveness
Councils, a nonpartisan network of corporate CEOs, university presidents, and
national laboratory directors. He has also served as a senior executive for the
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, leading the first-responder program
and has two U.S. presidential appointments

David Alexander

Managing Member Calje

David Alexander is a Baden-Powell Fellow, Summit Bechtel Reserve philanthropist, and recipient of the Silver Buffalo and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the founder of Caljet, one of the largest independent motor fuels terminals in the U.S. He has served the Arizona Petroleum Marketers Association, Teen Lifeline, and American Heart Association. A triathlete who has completed hundreds of races, Alexander has also mentored the women’s triathlon team at Arizona State University.

Glenn Adams

President, CEO & Managing Director
Stonetex Oil Corp.

Glenn Adams is a recipient of the Silver Beaver, Silver Antelope, Silver Buffalo, and Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He is the former president of the National Eagle Scout Association and established the Glenn A. and Melinda W. Adams National Eagle Scout Service Project of the Year Award. He has more than 40 years of experience in the oil, gas, and energy fields, including serving as a president, owner, and CEO. Adams has also received multiple service awards from the Texas Alliance of Energy Producers.