Volume 9 – 2022
1. Winter 2022
- Adapting Events: Focus on long-term summer camp planning and communication for campers with special needs or disabilities (SND) between parents, unit leaders, and camp staff; helping adult volunteers outside your unit.
- Enhancing Awareness Seabase Keys Experience, Philmont Zia Program, 2022 National Order of the Arrow Conference (NOAC).
- Awareness Events: Philmont SND Conferences, SND Roundtable, and Fall national SND training conference.
- Recognizing Abilities: The Torch of Gold Award.
Volume 8 – 2021
1. Spring 2021
- Adapting Activities: Preparing for summer camp; parents and youth with special needs sharing tents; waterfront and boating accessibility.
- Adapting Advancement: The ISAP and the IEP.
- Awareness Events: Membership and unit growth roundtable for special needs and disabilities; training events at the Summit Bechtel Reserve in 2021; making family memories at Philmont Training Center.
- Recognizing Abilities: Warren Wenner and Deb Reidmiller receive the 2021 Woods Services Award; nominate a fellow Scouter for the Torch of Gold.
- Helpful Links: Accessing special needs and disabilities materials.
Volume 7 – 2020
1. Late Winter 2020
- Adapting Activities: Tranquility Base: a safe space; Philmont’s Zia Experience for youth with special needs this summer.
- Enhancing Awareness: Training conference at Philmont this summer.
- Adapting Advancement: Changes to youth registration beyond the age of eligibility; Youth Protection Training exemptions for mental disabilities.
- Recognizing Abilities: Presenting the Torch of Gold Award.
2. Summer 2020
- Adapting Advancement: Joining conferences for new Scouts; saying good-bye to board of review anxiety.
- Enhancing Awareness: The experience of blindness.
- Adapting Activities: Choosing a unit for a Scout with special needs; Responses when a unit leader rejects a proposed accommodation.
- Awareness Events: Staffing opportunities for Disabilities Awareness Challenges at the upcoming National Scout Jamboree.
- Recognizing Abilities: The Special Needs Scouting Service Award.
- 2021 Philmont summer events.
3. Spring 2020
- Enhancing Awareness: Q&A on COVID-19 and special needs Scouting; mental health first aid.
- Awareness Events: Adaptive Special Needs conference still open for registration this summer; Zia Experience delayed until summer 2021.
- Adapting Activities: New Scout Orientations and beyond.
- Recognizing Abilities: Rich Gambrill honored with 2020 Woods Services Award.
- Adapting Advancement: Being prepared for physical disabilities; advancement with physical disabilities.
Volume 6 – 2019
1. Spring 2019
- Adapting Activities: The Chief Scout Executive speaks on Scouting with disabilities and special needs; summer activities for Scouts with special needs.
- Enhancing Awareness: Revised Special Needs and Disabilities Introduction now available; Philmont training program on special needs Scouting.
- Recognizing Abilities: Scouters recognized this year for service to Scouting with special needs and disabilities.
- Adapting Advancement: Perspectives on comparable challenges and expectations in advancement.
- Helpful Links: Accessing Disabilities Awareness materials.
2. Winter 2019
- Welcome our new National Committee Chair, Warren Wenner.
- Awareness Events: Training opportunities at Seabase this winter and Philmont this spring; Philmont offers a new experience for Scouts with special needs.
- Recognizing Abilities: Dori Hammer receives the Woods Services Award.
- Advancement help may be right down the street.
- Adapting Activities: Special Needs at the World Scout Jamboree last summer; “Wizard Academy” hosted by Three Fires Council, Troops for the deaf and blind in Palmetto Council.
