TAC Connection - Short Term Camping, Transferring Members, and the Black Eagle Lodge.

TAC Connection

September 1st, 2021

A periodic communication to our Scouting Families

Short-Term Camp Administrator Training

Every District and Council overnight activity requires a designated National Camp Accreditation Program (NCAP) trained Administrator. This course certification helps you to ensure District and Council activities are able to meet NCAP standards and that a quality program is delivered to every youth.

Both TAC and the National Council will be offering courses over the coming months. TAC will be offering a one-day course on Oct 23 and a two-day course on Dec 11 -12. The registration fee for the TAC courses are subsidized by Friends of Scouting gifts. Registration will open soon.

For the National offered courses please visit:

https://www.scouting.org/outdoor-programs/camping/short-term-camp/

Transferring Scouts from another council to TAC

It’s September, which means our units are recruiting new Scouts. If they are coming from

another council, there is no need to submit paper applications- they can transfer their registration online. The two easiest ways to do this are both through www.My.Scouting.org

Parents can log in to their own My.Scouting account, find the unit they want in TAC, and transfer online.

Another great method is to directly send the new family your unit’s custom Invitation Link. The Unit Key 3 can find their link in Invitation Manager in their My.Scouting account, or you can go there for a list of all the Invite Links in the Council. This works for transferring both youth and adults.

Using an Invitation Link is also the way to have new recruits join Scouting for the very first time. All units and their Invitation Links are also found on the council website. Note- if an adult is registering but does not have a US Social Security number, they will need to submit a paper application through the Docuware site.

Contact your District Executive for more information if needed.

Cold Weather Safety and Frostbite

As summer is coming to an end, it is important to be aware of the dangers posed by the coming cold of fall and winter.

As with almost all threats to safety, the best offense is a good defense. Prevention is the best medicine.

Make sure to:

Be prepared
Pack and wear warm clothes as well as protecting exposed skin, keeping a close eye out for redness or pain.
Act quickly
Frostbite treatment must be done immediately, as soon as symptoms show. Find shelter and warm slowly, going to the nearest health-care facility if second degree burn or higher is seen.
Be proactive
Dress in layers to help prevent frostbite, and remove layers to help prevent excess sweating.

Check out more safety moments at Scouting.org

Black Eagle Lodge Fellowship in Stuttgart

Order of the Arrow members, the Lodge will be holding its first lodge-wide fellowship on September 24-26th in Stuttgart, Germany. The fellowship is a central event in Scouting's honor society, where new members are inducted, and current members ascend the Order's ranks.

We are looking forward to a fun weekend of service; Registration is now open.

Click Here.

Make sure to follow OABEL482 on Instagram to stay up to date on all things Black Eagle Lodge. If you have any questions feel free to shoot us a message there.

Questions? TAC-ServiceCenter-802@scouting.org

Link to calendar: https://www.tac-bsa.org/Calendar

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