Act This Week!  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
  
• 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. 

If you're no longer interested in Scouting and you want to "opt out" of these messages, email the Webmaster and we'll drop you from the list.  But If you want to be "all in" on Scouting, see our Leader Training page (good resources for parents too through the National On Line Training site at ScoutingU with the same login as at My.Scouting.Org), and if you want the login code, just email the Webmaster ... If you want to add parents or leaders to the distribution list who are not in your unit's roster here, just email the Webmaster.

Highlights of the most recent District News were these (click links for information):  Training Opportunities This Weekend (last weekend) ... Help for Den Leaders -- "Assembled" Den Meeting Plans ... Starting a Pack? Re-Starting a Pack? Check This Out. ... Notice of District Annual Business Meeting ... and from the week before:  The Atlanta Recruiting Plan is Pack-Run, Year-Round and Local  ... Did you know new Den Leaders can earn a FREE uniform!?!?!? ... Helping Units in Your District (Ways to Volunteer) ... Email webmaster@southfultonscouting.com if you need a reminder about the login.

Final Call:

• Cub Scout Leader Training.  See scoutingatl.org/cub-leader-training for Saturday, October 24 (1:00 pm at Bert Adams Scout Camp in the "STEM" Building near Lee Campsite) 

• 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. 

Do you like the new and simpler requirements for each Cub Scout Adventure?

• Where you don't have to pick and choose which requirements to do?
• Cool!  Simple.  Easy.  Do all of 1 through 6.  No need to choose!

But what about the new National Resources for each Cub Scout Adventure?  Are they Simple and Easy?

• Where you must pick and choose which which activities to do!  So ... for each Requirement, you have to sort through 2 or 3 activity options.  
• You have to go somewhere else to find out how to do a Den Meeting!
• You have to assemble the activities you pick into the other parts of a Den Meeting!
• Is that Simple??  Is that Easy??  No.  We can do better.

To help den leaders and parents, we've assembled 126 Cub Scout Adventures into a Den Meeting Plan format with added videos and tips to make leading Cub Scouts easier.  Really.  Click here for more, or keep reading below.  Email webmaster@southfultonscouting.com if you need a reminder about the login.

In each plan, we select one way to complete the requirement -- sometimes from a National activity card or adapted from it, sometimes just from the Requirement itself -- and put it into an "Assembled" Den Meeting Plan with prompts for the Parts of a Den Meeting.  Namely, Preparation (plan + collect materials needed), Gathering (something for early arrivals to do), Opening (a ceremony to start), then Activities (an Activities Intro chat, then alternate energetic and learning activities + add fun), Closing + Recognition (ceremony), and After the Meeting (follow up).  These plans are also available on the Atlanta Area Council Cub Scout Advancement rank by rank pages under scoutingatl.org/CubScoutAdvance.

You are invited to check out our Plan Your Best Year in Cub Scouting resource page, including the new Cub Scout Pack Organizing Guide that walks parents and planners through key questions like:

• What Should We Do As A Pack?
• When Should Dens Meet? 
• How Often Should Dens Meet as Dens?
• Where Should Dens Meet?
• When Should We Have Pack Meetings?
• What’s Involved in “Advancement”?
• Must All Cub Activities Include “Advancement”?

More in the Cub Scout Pack Organizing Guide.