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“Time in nature is not leisure time; it's an essential investment in our children's health (and also, by the way, in our own).”
― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
― Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder
Welcome,
We have spent considerable time looking for an affordable outdoor program that reflects our families' interests. The Outdoor Service Guides' (BPSA) volunteer based Scouting system makes the most sense for us. Its primary focus is building character, gaining skills while outdoors, being healthy, and providing community service. It is non-discriminatory, co-ed, and anyone ages five and up can participate. If you are looking for a way to get yourself or the kids to have more fun outside and being active in the community, then hopefully you'll find enough on our website and Facebook page to inspire you to be involved in some way.
A little about the Group and what you might expect:
Providing structure for good Character. Families teach their children right/wrong, but having a Scout Law and Promise helps provide language that youth can understand and use as simple life rules.
Future Goodwill & Service. Even though it may be easier to go camping with your close friends, going camping with other Scout families whom you do not know is a very important part of the Scouting Method. One of the Scouting goals is to create better leaders for tomorrow. It is by working with diverse families in exciting environments such as camp or a volunteer project, that the youth (and hopefully the adults too) can learn how to work with others so that in the future they will be able to help our community solve problems.
Progressive Skill Training While Outdoors. Having a badge system, learning how to mentor, and being outside creates a flexible structure to ensure that we are exposed to all sorts of new things to experience. Nature provides us with infinitely more things to learn than you can find in a classroom. The activities we could do are only limited to our members' ambitions: hikes, art projects, first aid, storytelling, campouts, treasure hunts, canoeing/sailing, outdoor cooking, ropes course, edible/medicinal plant studies, archery/marksmanship, music, gardening, habitat restoration and ecology studies, blacksmithing, primitive living/ survival skills, astronomy, live action role playing games, fishing and animal tracking.
We don’t have badges or awards for things like Computers or Robotics as being in nature provides a good foundation to learn those things on your own or at school. Nor do we allow any door-to-door selling.
Fitness. The meeting and camping schedule motivates us to make sure we go outside, really outside, often so we can improve our health.
Meetings and Membership:
We are meeting as a Group twice a month on weekends [more often if desired in our separate units] with quarterly camp outs or community service projects. Mentors and Auxiliary members also meet once a month separate from the rest of the group to organize meetings and fundraisers and to see that the Group is operating successfully.
The only limit to how many youth we can accept is how many adult mentors are available. Please register with us (please see the Sign-up! Link at top) to ensure you have a spot before paying your dues. We have no limit on adult members.
Traditional Scouting also has an adult only section called Rovers. Think of it as a Mardi Gras Social Aid and Pleasure Club whose members do volunteer projects and have outdoor adventures together. Rovers can help mentor the younger Scouts or focus on volunteer projects outside the Scout Group if they prefer to work only with adults.
To model service to the community, Traditional Scouting is entirely volunteer run; there is no paid staff. We are always looking for mentors to supervise each unit. No Scouting or wilderness experience is necessary but could obviously be helpful. We also need Auxiliary Committee members to be responsible for property and equipment, and to assist with finance, fundraising, publicity (to include newsletters and website), finding appropriate accommodation, camping grounds, finding leaders for the Group, and other support functions. We would like to meet others who can share their special skills, knowledge or unique access to resources that would make our Scouts' experience more unique.
Hope to see you on the trails!
The 39th Cypress BPSA Group
We have spent considerable time looking for an affordable outdoor program that reflects our families' interests. The Outdoor Service Guides' (BPSA) volunteer based Scouting system makes the most sense for us. Its primary focus is building character, gaining skills while outdoors, being healthy, and providing community service. It is non-discriminatory, co-ed, and anyone ages five and up can participate. If you are looking for a way to get yourself or the kids to have more fun outside and being active in the community, then hopefully you'll find enough on our website and Facebook page to inspire you to be involved in some way.
A little about the Group and what you might expect:
Providing structure for good Character. Families teach their children right/wrong, but having a Scout Law and Promise helps provide language that youth can understand and use as simple life rules.
Future Goodwill & Service. Even though it may be easier to go camping with your close friends, going camping with other Scout families whom you do not know is a very important part of the Scouting Method. One of the Scouting goals is to create better leaders for tomorrow. It is by working with diverse families in exciting environments such as camp or a volunteer project, that the youth (and hopefully the adults too) can learn how to work with others so that in the future they will be able to help our community solve problems.
Progressive Skill Training While Outdoors. Having a badge system, learning how to mentor, and being outside creates a flexible structure to ensure that we are exposed to all sorts of new things to experience. Nature provides us with infinitely more things to learn than you can find in a classroom. The activities we could do are only limited to our members' ambitions: hikes, art projects, first aid, storytelling, campouts, treasure hunts, canoeing/sailing, outdoor cooking, ropes course, edible/medicinal plant studies, archery/marksmanship, music, gardening, habitat restoration and ecology studies, blacksmithing, primitive living/ survival skills, astronomy, live action role playing games, fishing and animal tracking.
We don’t have badges or awards for things like Computers or Robotics as being in nature provides a good foundation to learn those things on your own or at school. Nor do we allow any door-to-door selling.
Fitness. The meeting and camping schedule motivates us to make sure we go outside, really outside, often so we can improve our health.
Meetings and Membership:
We are meeting as a Group twice a month on weekends [more often if desired in our separate units] with quarterly camp outs or community service projects. Mentors and Auxiliary members also meet once a month separate from the rest of the group to organize meetings and fundraisers and to see that the Group is operating successfully.
The only limit to how many youth we can accept is how many adult mentors are available. Please register with us (please see the Sign-up! Link at top) to ensure you have a spot before paying your dues. We have no limit on adult members.
Traditional Scouting also has an adult only section called Rovers. Think of it as a Mardi Gras Social Aid and Pleasure Club whose members do volunteer projects and have outdoor adventures together. Rovers can help mentor the younger Scouts or focus on volunteer projects outside the Scout Group if they prefer to work only with adults.
To model service to the community, Traditional Scouting is entirely volunteer run; there is no paid staff. We are always looking for mentors to supervise each unit. No Scouting or wilderness experience is necessary but could obviously be helpful. We also need Auxiliary Committee members to be responsible for property and equipment, and to assist with finance, fundraising, publicity (to include newsletters and website), finding appropriate accommodation, camping grounds, finding leaders for the Group, and other support functions. We would like to meet others who can share their special skills, knowledge or unique access to resources that would make our Scouts' experience more unique.
Hope to see you on the trails!
The 39th Cypress BPSA Group
The Baden-Powell Service Association of Southeast Louisiana, 39th Cypress, is a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization created with the mission to provide a positive learning environment within the context of democratic participation and social justice. The aim of the BPSA-US is to develop good citizenship through woodcraft and scoutcraft training by following the methods and aims developed by Robert Baden-Powell's "Scouting" program.