This course provides advanced training to prepare participants to coordinate a shooting range. The itinerary includes an emphasis on safety, range leadership, and shooting instruction. Those with this certification can serve as a Rifle instructor for council, camp, and unit events.
Pre-Training Required: Basic Instructor Training & NRA Basic Rifle Training
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Cost: $85
Contact: Joe Iannello, [email protected]
This course provides advanced training to prepare participants to coordinate a shooting range. The itinerary includes an emphasis on safety, range leadership, and shooting instruction. Those with this certification can serve as a shotgun instructor for council, camp, and unit events.
Pre-Training Required: Basic Instructor Training & NRA Basic Shotgun Training
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Cost: $85
Contact: Joe Iannello, [email protected]
Wilderness first aid is a training course that focuses on prevention, assessment, and treatment for an ill or injured person in a remote environment where definitive care by a physician and/or rapid transport is not readily available.
WFA prepares participants to identify and address medical issues that can arise in the backcountry. Treatment skills are taught as well as educating adults to recognize illnesses early and minimize the potential for injury. The skills learned in this WFA course can save lives.
WFA is not just for the backcountry. It is just as relevant in urban areas during hurricanes, floods, fires, or mass casualty events when emergency services might be strained. WFA knowledge can be lifesaving.
Prerequisite: There is an online portion that must be completed prior to arrival. Participants can complete this in phases as they have time; online training information will be emailed well in advance and will take approximately eight hours to complete.
The list of WFA training options available on this weekend will consist of:
Participants are required to stay at camp for the duration of the course. Meals provided include a Friday evening cracker barrel as well as breakfast and lunch on Saturday. Arrival is 6:00 PM on Friday, and departure is 6:00 PM on Saturday.
Contact:
Karen Dietz, [email protected]
Jeffrey Seiser, [email protected]
This course provides advanced training to prepare participants to coordinate a shooting range. The itinerary includes an emphasis on safety, range leadership, and shooting instruction. Those with this certification can serve as a pistol instructor for council, camp, and unit events.
Pre-Training Required: Basic Instructor Training & NRA Basic Pistol Training
Time: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Cost: $85
Contact: Joe Iannello, [email protected]
This course covers the basic training required to serve as an Archery Range Instructor. Skills focused on include range set up, range commands, and shooting skills. Those with this certification can serve as an Archery instructor for Council, camp, and unit events.
Required Pre-training: Online USA Archery Course ($40)
Time: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Cost: $30
Contact: Jason Mendez, [email protected]
See the NYLT page for more information.
National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is the Scouting America’s premier youth leadership development program at the Council level. It’s an exciting 7-day program designed for youth to learn leadership skills that will help them succeed in Scouting and in life.
Time: 12:00 noon, Sunday, July 12 – 7:00 PM, Saturday, July 18
Cost: $450 per Scout
Contact: Matt Kuhr, [email protected]
The RSO course content consists of RSO’s roles and responsibilities, range standard operating procedures, range inspection, and range rules. Those with this certification may serve as a safety officer (an instructor is also required) for council, camp, and unit events.
Required Pre-training: None
Time: December 5, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM (subject to change)
Cost: $65 (subject to change)
Contact: Joe Iannello, [email protected]
Camp Workcoeman is located in the hills of northwest Connecticut in scenic New Hartford and Barkhamsted. The camp consists of approximately 427 acres on the shore of beautiful West Hill Pond, possibly the cleanest in Connecticut.
Established in 1924, it is one of the oldest continuously operated Scout camps in the country. For 102 years, thousands of Scouts and Scouters have had unforgettable Scouting experiences at Camp Workcoeman. This fine tradition of Scouting continues today.