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[quote=Anonymous]Both Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts NEED adults, especially young adults! Please have your post-HS kid talk to someone in the organization. I know that in Girl Scouting there are absolutely things for college age and post-college young women, like a PP noted regarding camp staff (both volunteer and paid). Many, many troops likely would welcome an energetic young adult to act as a co-leader or even just an occasional second or third adult on field trips, camping, etc. If your young adult is good at and loves teaching some particular skill, he or she can offer that to troops in the area at home or near college!

My experience is in Girl Scouting (12 years as a leader, plus adult staff for camps etc. and a lot of hours at adult leader meetings and so on). Believe me, a post-HS student who approached the local Girl Scout council or its Boy Scout equivalent should be treasured. Go to the "council" equivalent (the group that oversees all troops in a geographic area) and get on lists of people troops can call on to teach skills, visit meetings, etc. Harder for me to be detailed as I don't know Boy Scouting structure but in Girl Scouting there are absolutely resource lists where troops and camps go to find names of people to do everything from take troops on challenge courses (something I've done for my own troop and others) to teaching various skils etc.

Your Scout may have to be assertive at first beacause operating outside his or her familar troop structure will require finding the right contacts in the larger scouting structure. And of course your post-HS scout could just connect with one particular troop or troops back at his or her old schools.

One thing. Many PPs are assuming scouting = camping/outdoors. While that's a big element it's not the be-all and end-all. There are both Girl and (I believe) Boy Scout badges and programs for things like computer skills, graphic design, astronomy, history, and many other things. If your kid has interests that coordinate with almost any badge or program, that's a good way to offer services back to troops as well. [/quote]

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