Resources 505 Troop Policy Manual 4-2-2019 IL Mandatory Reporting (Guidance)(PDF) The Illinois Child Abuse Hotline is 1-800-252-2873 (1-800-25-ABUSE). BSA has established 844-SCOUTS1 (844-726-8871), a dedicated 24-hour helpline to receive reports of known or suspected abuse or behavior that might put a youth at risk. Abused and Neglected Child Reporting Act (ANCRA) Mandated Reporter Manual State Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Numbers Youth Protection Guide to Safe Scouting Adult Driving Safety Policy 2015 Troop 505 Conduct and Discipline Policy Troop 505 Electronics Policy Adult Camping Rules Personal gear list Moving from Cub Scouts to Boy Scouts Wilderness First Aid Docs –WFA Eval 1.pdf – WFA Eval 2.pdf – WFA Eval 3.pdf US Scouting Service Project— a wonderful collection of sites filled with valuable info for leaders and scouts Scoutmaster Resources — one of the US Scouting Service Project websites with info for leaders. Troop Program Features include 36 Monthly Themes with Troop Meeting and Activity plans. Youth Protection Guidelines Guide to Safe Scouting (Web site) Guide to Safe Scouting (PDF) Winter Sports Safety — (Helmets Update 2009) Youth Protection Youth Protection and Adult Leadership How to Protect your Children for Child abuse: A Parent’s Guide Child Abuse Reporting Requirements (65Kb PDF) Official BSA Forms – This site has all the official, updated forms. Merit Badge Counselor Information – used to add a merit badge to an existing Merit Badge Counselor Thunderbird District Training Boy Scout Leader Online Training Junior Leadership Training (Outline for training) Leader Knots Leave No Trace Leave No Trace 2 National Order of The Arrow Web Site Troop Neckerchief logo Knot Pages Ropes, Knots And Lashing (2.25 Mb PDF) Get Knotted! Animated Knots for Scouts The U.S. Scouting Project-The Knotting Dictionary of Kannet Knots for Scouts (How to tie 10 essential Scouting knots) Animated Knots by Grog Essential knots for scouting with animated examples. Ropes, Knots & Lashings 11×17 poster (151 Kb PDF) Scout knots (75 Kb Word Doc) When to Use Knots and Lashings (150 Kb PDF) Timber and clove hitch and how to lash video (very good) Camping Calculating Gas Costs (14KB Excel file) Weekend Campout Planning Guide (PDF) ASM Committee Retreat Notes 2015 (PDF) Weekend Camp Services (82Kb PDF) Mini Adventure How to (164 Kb PDF) Campfire Program Planner (475KB PDF) List of Campsites in several states from Roundtable (228KB Excel file) BSA Camping.org Camp Recipes (21 Kb Word doc) Skits (93Kb PDF) Cheers (19Kb PDF) Songs (34Kb PDF) Flag Retirement Ceremony Doc1 Flag Retirement Ceremony Doc2 Directions Directions to Green Valley (71 Kb PDF) Directions to Von Oven Scout Reservation Directions to Camp Big Timber Elgin, IL Cooking Two Fat Scoutmasters Cooking Demo (22Kb PDF) The MacScouter Cooking for Scouts and Scouters Guide. Dutch oven recipes, The Geezer Cookbook, Chili recipes, etc. Campfire Cooking How to choose a site and build a fire for cooking, and recipes for campfire cooking. Forget The Granola: Camp Cooking Goes Gourmet NPR Dutch Oven Cooking. (1.3 Mb PDF) Dutch Oven Resources ( 75Kb Word Doc) Geezer’s Cookbook. One of the best camp cookbooks ever. Here is a link to 182 Kb PDF 505 Dad’s Menus – Taste of what the dads cook at our campouts WOOD BADGE RESOURCES Wood Badge is the most advanced training available to Boy Scout Leaders. Gilwell is the name given to a place where Shooting’s Wood Badge training takes place. Scout Humor Universal Rules of Camping (11 Kb PDF) You might be taking your scouting too serious if… (20 Kb PDF) More Scouting Humor.. Games MacScouter – Great Game Rescouces Boy Scout Trial G. S. Ripley’s Games for Boy Scouts