What is Venturing?
Venturing is a youth development program of the Boy Scouts of
America for young men and women who are 14 (and have completed the eighth
grade) through 20 years of age.
Venturing's purpose is to provide positive experiences to help young
people mature and to prepare them to become responsible and caring adults.
Venturing is based on a unique and dynamic relationship between
youth, adult leaders, and organizations in their communities. Local community
organizations establish a Venturing crew by matching their people and program
resources to the interests of young people in the community. The result is a
program of exciting and meaningful activities that helps youth pursue their
special interests, to grow, to develop leadership skills, and to become good
citizens.
Venturing crews can specialize in a variety of avocation or hobby
interests. Venturing programs are developed around six experience areas of
emphasis: arts & hobbies, outdoors, sea scouting, sports, and youth
ministries.
Goals of Venturing
Young adults involved in Venturing will:
- Learn to make ethical choices
over their lifetimes by instilling the values in the Venturing Oath and
Code.
- Experience a program that is
fun and full of challenge and adventure.
- Become a skilled training and
program resource for Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, and other groups.
- Acquire skills in the areas
outdoors, sports, arts and hobbies, youth ministries, or Sea Scouting.
- Experience positive leadership
from adult and youth leaders and be given opportunities to take on
leadership roles.
- Have a chance to learn and grow
in a supportive, caring, and fun environment.
Methods
of Venturing
The aims of the Boy
Scouts of America are to build character, develop citizenship and foster
personal fitness. The Venturing methods listed below have been carefully
designed to achieve the aims of the Boy Scouts of America and meet the needs of
young adults.
- Leadership. All Venturers are given
opportunities to learn and apply proven leadership skills. Elected crew
officers lead a Venturing crew. The Venturing Leadership Skills Course is
designed for all Venturers and helps teach in an active way to effectively
lead.
- Group Activities. Venturing activities are
interdependent group experiences in which success is dependent on the
cooperation of all. Learning by "doing" in a group setting
provides opportunities for developing new skills.
- Adult Association. The youth officers lead the
crew. The officers and activity chairs work closely with adult Advisors
and other adult leaders in a spirit of partnership. The adults serve in a
"shadow" leader capacity.
- Recognition. Recognition comes through the
Venturing advancement program and through the acknowledgement of a youth's
competence and ability by peers and adults.
- The Ideals. Venturers are expected to know
and live by the Venturing Oath and Code. They promise to be faithful in
religious duties, treasure their American heritage, to help others and to
seek truth and fairness.
- High Adventure. Venturing's emphasis on high
adventure helps provide; team-building opportunities, new meaningful
experiences, practical leadership application, and life-long memories to
young adults.
- Teaching Others. All of the Venturing Awards
require Venturers to teach what they have learned to others. When they
teach others often, Venturers are better able to retain the skill or
knowledge they taught, they gain confidence in their ability to speak and
relate to others and they acquire skills that can benefit them for the
rest of their lives as a hobby or occupation.
Ethics in Action
An important goal of
Venturing is to help young adults be responsible and caring persons, both now
and in the future. Venturing uses "ethical controversies" to help
young adults develop the ability to make responsible choices that reflect their
concern for what is a risk and how it will affect others involved. Because an
ethical controversy is a problem-solving situation, leaders expect young adults
to employ empathy, invention, and selection when they think through their
position and work toward a solution of an ethical controversy.
For
more information about Venturing, contact the Cindy Farber at Email: clfarber@hotmail.com
or call 323.724.0078
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