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Welcome to the Southern Crescent District Website!

The Southern Crescent District is in the Atlanta Area Council, serving Scouts, Leaders and Parents in Clayton County and South Fulton County. See the BeAScout website for location and contact information for Cub Scout Packs (Kindergarten through 5th Grade are Cub Scouts), Scouts BSA Troops (end of 5th Grade to age 18), and Venturing Crews. 

For an overview of Scouting, see this "We Are Scouts" video or this Pack 1030 animoto; or this "What Scouting Does Right" video; or this one about Cub Scout Camping and Outdoor Activities!  Or this one from a Michigan Troop (the activities depicted have been done by local Troops too!), or these.  Deciding between Sports and Scouts (you can do both):  see this clip.  Like us on our Facebook Page! And see this Smugmug gallery of District Events and this older District Flickr Photo Site.  Need more information? Please contact:

  • Our District Chair, Broderick Talley, our interim District Commissioner, Ron Gates, or our District Executive Equon Smith, or all of them at this email. (Ron Gates and Micah Womack are District Vice Chairs.)
  • Our Units (Packs, Troops and Crews) through the contacts in the Roster of District and Unit Adults.

Forgot how to Login (forgot the Username and Password)? Click here. Please see the "Menu" of items to the left.  As noted in the Website Guide, "About Us & How to Join" tells you about Scout Programs and Units, gives you the paperwork needed to join; Cub Scout Meeting Plans gives you "rip and run" complete plans for Meetings with your Scouts, and the Cub Scout Month by Month Activity Ideas will give you easy + fun ideas of cool places to go and things to do including this Great Big List of Places to Go (good for Scouts BSA Troops and Visiting Relatives too); "Leader Training" shows you how to learn more for an easier + better program, and more.  The Southern Crescent District serves South Fulton County, including Chattahoochee Hill Country, College Park, East Point, Fairburn, Hapeville, Palmetto & Union City, and Clayton County, including Jonesboro, Riverdale, Rex, Forest Park, Morrow, Lovejoy and Lake City; many of us are friends with the South Fulton County Chamber of Commerce, Keep South Fulton BeautifulSafe Kids Georgia programs.

Recruiting Step Three: Recruiting Adult Leaders

Posted on Oct 13 2025 - 8:50am

Got a Calendar of Fun Activities for your Pack and Dens?  Good.  Sharing and Promoting Your Pack Program?  Great.  Also: be on the lookout for leaders.

Parents of Scouts over this last school year may have "watched" you lead -- now you should pull them into leadership roles.

You’ll need the essential roles of Den Leaders, Assistants and Committee Members of course, but you’ll also want many different roles and small jobs so that every parent has a path to helping.  The best Packs and Dens create a culture of collective leadership, one where Every Parent Helps and through this process you turn parents into helpers and helpers into leaders.

To help with this step, see www.atlantabsa.org/RecruitingLeaders.  There are many ideas there -- and many videos there -- about how to create a culture that leads parents to answer “yes” when asked to help, from planning a menu of jobs and setting expectations to ways to ask for help to succession planning and more.  No one tool works for all – but all tools work for some.  Pick ones you like. 

For more, see www.atlantabsa.org/RecruitingLeaders

Notice of District Annual Business Meeting

Posted on Oct 13 2025 - 8:48am

See Below for a copy of a NOTICE OF DISTRICT ANNUAL BUSINESS MEETING sent by the Atlanta Area Council -- with corrected email address.  (Email webmaster@southfultonscouting.com if you need a reminder about the login to see more.)

Another Live Cub Leader Training This Saturday, October 18

Posted on Oct 13 2025 - 8:47am

Saturday, October 4, 10:00 am at the Volunteer Service Center, 1800 Circle 75 Parkway SE, Atlanta, GA 30339. Register here or just email cubleadertraining@southfultonscouting.com (Bert Bender).  Come for the Class, Stay for the Scout Shop! 

Scouts BSA Troop Program Ideas

Posted on Oct 6 2025 - 4:38pm

Want more Fun in your Troop program?  To keep current Scouts and attract new Scouts?  See this page with links to dozens of Troop Program Resources.

Den Meeting Plans for Mixed Grade Dens

Posted on Oct 6 2025 - 4:36pm

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:

As noted in the Den Meeting Plans for Mixed Dens pageOnce 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.

Southern Crescent District, AAC, BSA

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