Program Planning for October 2025
Embrace the Adventure: Courage, Camaraderie, and the Colors of Fall
Things to Remember This Month:
- Train New and Incoming and Returning Unit Leaders
- Cub Advancement Resources Help Parents Lead and Succeed
- Follow-Up on BeAScout Leads!
- New guidance for ‘Using Digital Tools to Strengthen the Merit Badge Experience'
October Events
Cub Haunted
October 17-19
The tombs are rumbling—our mummies can’t believe it’s already time for Cub Haunted! Join us for a fun filled weekend no one will want to miss.
REGISTER
Cub Scout Position Specific Leadership Training
October 2
Join us for position specific training for Den Leader, Committee Member, Cub Master and Committee Chair training.
REGISTER
South Calcasieu Area Council Roundtable
TBD
Monthly program that provides leaders hands-on experience and provides a forum for leaders to offer and receive help from their fellow Scouters.
North Calcasieu Area Council Roundtable
TBD
Monthly program that provides leaders hands-on experience and provides a forum for leaders to offer and receive help from their fellow Scouters.
Popcorn Fundraising
With each bite, you’re helping Scouts in your community earn their own way to outdoor adventures and life-changing learning opportunities. Look for scouts at store locations in your area.
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Community Activities Supported by Units
Check with your unit on community activities for this month.
October Planning Items
New guidance for ‘Using Digital Tools to Strengthen the Merit Badge Experience'
As new digital resources become available, it’s exciting and challenging to adapt and integrate their use in the merit badge program. Our technology is changing and evolving, and Scouting should work to embrace these new ideas and technologies while keeping what makes Scouting meaningful — the personal connections, character-building, and the power of adult mentorship and interactions in a young person’s life. For information, click this LINK.
Follow-Up on BeAScout Leads!
The Fall Recruiting campaign from Scouting America is off to a powerful start! Launched in late July 2025, within a week it had already delivered 2.4 million impressions, 1.2 million video views, and nearly 28,000 clicks to BeAScout.org. That means more and more people are visiting the site, which makes it more important than ever for units to follow-up on their BeAScout leads. Flyers, yard signs, social media content and many other marketing tactics are driving potential Scouting families to beascout.org. Many of those people reach out to get questions answered and/or apply to become members.
The system, though, is not automatic. Each unit must respond to those "leads" and accept those new members. The more often a unit checks the system for those leads, the better the experience will be for those potential Scouting families. Let's help families connect with Scouting! For information on how to manage BeAScout leads, visit this site: https://www.scouting.org/resources/online-registration/.
Advancement Resources for Leaders and Parents
By now, you’re really into Handbook Advancement and Adventures. The Cub Scout Advance link from the Atlanta Area Council will take you to resource pages for Adventures, and give you – and the parents in your Den – helpful information to be great leaders of your Scouts. Each Adventure resource page has the Den Leader Guide Plan, simpler “streamlined” plans for most “required” adventures, and similar simple “family led” plans for every Adventure. Plus all of the native content from “Scouting on Demand”, and even more videos (like BSA videos en español) and resource links to keep you smarter than your Scout.