Yes, the Atlanta Area Council will provide a certificate to be used at the Scout Shop to purchase your uniform if you're a new Den Leader.  If you want more help on your Leader Team, be tell parents in your Pack about this!  You can claim your free uniform by completing the following steps:

• Complete Safeguarding Youth Training and submit your Adult Application
• Complete Den Leader Specific Training -- live sessions at Bert Adams October 17 + 24
• Encourage your Den to attend Spooky-Ree or your Pack's fall Campout
• Post about becoming a Den Leader on social media

Complete and submit this Uniform Voucher Form. 

What are the Possible Committee and Commissioner Roles Supporting Units, Leaders and Youth:  Scouts, Scouters and Scouting Units are part of a worldwide brotherhood of Scouting, and we gather together at National, Territory and Council events, Multi District events, District Events, and events just between Units that connect to do things together.  The Atlanta Area Council organizes units in Clayton County and South Fulton County as a District called “Southern Crescent”. Districts are responsible for carrying out four standard functions: program, unit service, membership and finance.

• The program functions concentrate on helping Scouting units through training adult volunteers, youth advancement support, camping promotion, community service promotion, multi-unit activities (such as camp o rees, cub twilight camp, scout fairs, pinewood derbies, shooting sports events, fishing), and recognition of youth and adults, all of which activities are “unit support” to help units do more.
• The unit service function of “commissioners” provides coaching and consultation by volunteers for unit adults to help ensure the success of every Scouting unit -- so commissioners stay abreast of and/or are involved in nearly all district unit support functions, and have a communication function to ensure units know of good program support opportunities -- all designed to support Membership growth and retention.
• The membership function strives for growth through new members and leaders joining existing units and (where needed) growth through the organization of new Scouting units – this must work closely with unit service and program areas (like training, activities and commissioner service) to help units be successful.
• The finance function supports units in fundraising and can help with financial practices, and sees that the district provides its share of funds to the total council operating budget.

Paid professionals, including District Executives, support these functions.

In our "Ways to Volunteer in the District to Help Units" page are some ways that volunteers can help "beyond" just one Unit through these functions.  Want to Help?  Contact the District Chair or District Executive or take this Point and Click Survey, as nearly every role could use more help, assistants, potential successors.  Also, teams can form based on interests, plus new services, events and programs may arise if someone has the passion for it ... contact information for current district leaders and committee and commissioners are found in the "Adult Leader" section of the Roster. email the webmaster if you need Login information.

Highlights of the most recent District News were these (click links for information):  District Camporee Update ... Den Meeting Plans for Mixed Grade Dens ... Upcoming Training Opportunities ... Opt In, Opt Out ... and from the week before:  Knowledge is Good! Upcoming Training Opportunities ... Starting a Pack? Re-Starting a Pack? Check This Out. ... Notice of District Annual Business Meeting ... Email webmaster@southfultonscouting.com if you need a reminder about the login.

District Commissioner Micah Womack shares the flyer shown here about the Southern Crescent Annual Scout Challenge Campout, November 6–8, with a note that "the registration deadline is October 15 and the cost is $25 per troop”.

The full set of Mixed Grade Den Meeting Plans is now out and available without a login. Details about why these plans were created are found at Den Meeting Plans for Mixed Dens page (bottom line: Cub Scouting Rank Advancement assumes dens are have only those in that den's grade level.  And that a den has 6 to 8 Scouts.  But many Packs don't have 36 to 48 Scouts neatly divided into dens like that.  So where you only have 2 or 3 Scouts in a grade level, you have some challenges).  That's why we have Assembled Den Meeting Plans available for:

• Lion + Tiger Mixed Dens
• Lion + Tiger + Wolf Mixed Dens
• Lion + Tiger + Wolf + Bear Mixed Dens
• Tiger + Wolf Mixed Dens
• Tiger + Wolf + Bear Mixed Dens
• Tiger + Wolf + Bear + Webelos Mixed Dens
• Wolf + Bear Mixed Dens 
• Wolf + Bear + Webelos Mixed Dens
• Wolf + Bear + Webelos + Arrow of Light Mixed Dens
• Bear + Webelos Mixed Dens
• Bear + Webelos + Arrow of Light Mixed Dens
• Webelos + Arrow of Light Mixed Dens 

As noted in the Den Meeting Plans for Mixed Dens page, Once We Start Using These, What If Our "Mixed" Den Starts Growing Too Big?  That's the goal -- make it easy for parents (parent-leaders) of small grade groups that join into a "mixed" den, have fun, and attract more friends to the Den so that eventually you have full sized dens at each grade level.

• So if you have 3 Lions, 3 Tigers and 3 Wolves in a mixed den, and then you grow by 3 Wolves to 6 or 7 Wolves, let the Wolves loose into their own Den.
• They can pick up with Wolf-only Adventures from our Wolf Adventures page. 
• The remaining Lions and Tigers can then switch to the Lion + Tiger Mixed Den Plans, hopefully until each of those grow to 6 or 7 each and start using Lion-only Adventure resources and Tiger-only Adventure resources. 
• More at Once We Start Using These Plans, What If Our "Mixed" Den Starts Growing Too Big? 

Special Training Opportunities abound.

• Cub Scout Leader Training.  See scoutingatl.org/cub-leader-training

• Saturday, October 10 (1:00 pm at Bert Adams Scout Camp)
• Sunday, October 11 (1:30 pm in Canton)  
• Saturday, October 17 (1:00 pm at Bert Adams Scout Camp)
• Saturday, October 24 (1:00 pm at Bert Adams Scout Camp) 

• Camping Training for Troop Adult Leaders called "Introduction to Outdoor Leader Skills" or "IOLS" has a session October 24-25 ... information and registration is at scoutingatl.org/iols

More in our Leader Training page.