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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:

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 Beautiful, Safe Kids Georgia programs.

Helping Units in Your District

Posted on Oct 21 2024 - 9:37am

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 and District Directors, 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.

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Help for Den Leaders -- "Assembled" Den Meeting Plans

Posted on Oct 21 2024 - 9:36am

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. 

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

  • You must pick and choose which which activities to do!
  • 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, we've assembled 126 Cub Scout Adventures into a Den Meeting Plan format. 

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).

See our new page of "Assembled" Cub Scout Den Meeting Plans -- Resources to Help Cub Scout Leaders and Parents, where there are 131 Adventure Resource Pages -- 100% of the Adventures that can be done in a Den or Pack -- over six rank pages.  Each Adventure page lists the requirements, links to the National Activity Card choices, adds links and videos that can help leaders, and attaches an "Assembled" Den Meeting Plan that den leaders and parents can use (click any link below): 

There's more, like a Summary of the New 2024 Cub Scout Advancement Program, as well as National Resources created to support Den Meetings, and a summary of what "Assembled Den Meeting Plans" are.  A page that shows similar Adventures by Topic across ranks.  Mixed Grade/Rank plans to follow.

Opt In, Opt Out

Posted on Oct 21 2024 - 9:36am

If you're no longer involved or 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 codes, just email the Webmaster ...

Last Week's District News ...

Posted on Oct 21 2024 - 9:35am

Highlights of the most recent District News were these (click links for information): Recruiting Step Three: Recruiting Adult Leaders ... BeAScout Tips: Words to Tailor Your Pin and Online Registration ... and from the week before: Scouts BSA Troop Recruiting Video And Resources ... Scouts BSA Troop Program Ideas ... Please Recommend Candidates for District Roles  ... District Annual Business Meeting October 24 ... Email webmaster@southfultonscouting.com if you need a reminder about the login.

Recruiting Step Three: Recruiting Adult Leaders

Posted on Oct 15 2024 - 6:58pm

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

BeAScout Tips: Words to Tailor Your Pin and Online Registration

Posted on Oct 15 2024 - 6:54pm

Hello Scout Leaders – Especially Key 3 Leaders and Key 3 Delegates (and those who want to be):  Online Registration is Easier for All.  Most new Youth and Leaders now “register” online – and it is faster and easier than ever.  For one thing, Scouting America will collect any registration fee and new member fee, freeing up the Unit to only collect pack program fees (or “dues”) until charter renewal for the upcoming calendar year.  You can also coordinate with families and other Units to “transfer” registration and set up “multiple” registrations in more than one unit – with no paper required! 

  • This is a great time to update your BeAScout pin and the Online Registration for your unit. 
  • Especially because you probably want to adjust your 2024-25 pack program fees (or “dues”) and messaging to reflect the Scouting America fee increases from April, with the key increases being $85 twelve month (not prorated) Youth Fee (up from $80) and $65 annual Adult Leader fee (up from $60). 
  • You can see the steps at www.atlantabsa.org/updateBeAScoutpin, and find examples for how to complete your “BeAScout.org” profile and tailor automatic emails that generate when someone interacts with BeAScout.org and submits an online Application.
  • Because if you write these automatic emails well, it will help attract new Scouts and families to your unit and make their onboarding easier. 
  • But wait – there’s more!  Unit to Unit transfers, like crossover from a Pack to a Troop, can be done completely online, with no new paper!  See this for more. 

To help you with these messages, we’ve got some ideas for input by your Unit Key 3 Leaders or Key 3 Delegates (they have the access to do updates) in three spots: 

1)      Unit Pin Blurb.  In My.Scouting == > Organization Manager == > Unit Pin, there is expanded space for “Additional Unit Information” (now 500 characters), and anyone seeing your online “BeAScout.org” profile will see this.  We’ve posted a document with some options at www.atlantabsa.org/updateBeAScoutpin.  Tailor that to fit your Unit. 

2)      Fee Email.  Second, in My.Scouting == > Organization Manager == > Settings, there is an option to click a box called “Include Fees/Fee Explanations”, and enter “Fee Amount”.  That “Fee Amount” needs to be an amount that excludes the Scouting America National fee that will be collected directly in Online Registration.  

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