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* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxtFCmDZJbQ Benefits of Scouting] - 2016 YouTube Video
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxtFCmDZJbQ Benefits of Scouting] - 2016 YouTube Video
* [https://voiceofscouting.org/why-scouting-a-study-of-benefits A Study of the Benefits of Scouting] - Voice of Scouting
* [https://voiceofscouting.org/why-scouting-a-study-of-benefits A Study of the Benefits of Scouting] - Voice of Scouting

Revision as of 22:06, 22 August 2019

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Benefits of Scouting for Youth and Families:

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Featuring age-appropriate appropriate Activities, Service, Crafts, Field Trips, & Outdoor Adventures. The Benefits of Scouting are many - increased faith, family recreation, physical health, citizenship and many other valuable life skill lessons.

  1. Learn Independence: Youth learn how to live independently. [1]
  2. Clean Air Exposure Lowers Health Risks USFS Study shows that prolonged exposure to clean air on outdoor camping trips increases your health levels. [2]
  3. Nature Appreciation Learning how to enjoy time spent in the outdoors will encourage youth to spend more time in clean air environments. [1]
  4. Mental Fitness Scouting activities include a great variety of problem solving activities. [1]
  5. Cardiovascular Exercise Common benefits of doing scout treks such as backpacking, cycling, etc. [1]
  6. Leadership Skills
    1. Everthing I Needed to Know about Leadership I Learned in the Boy Scouts - AceLibrary.

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"For over 100 years, Scouting programs have instilled in youth the values of the Scout Oath and Law. Today,these value are just as relevant in helping youth grow to their full potential as they were in 1910. Scouting helps youth develop academic skills, self-confidence, ethics, leadership skills and citizenship skills that influence their adult lives." (The Values of Scouting)

Benefits of Duty to God Program

2018 Harvard Study

  • 2018 Harvard Study has shown that youths who regularly attend religious services, pray or meditate may get a well-being boost that sticks around into young adulthood.[3] The study, by VanderWeele and Harvard research scientist Ying Chen, is published in the American Journal of Epidemiology. (See also Duty to God.)

Among the findings, youths who attended religious services at least weekly as children and adolescents were:

  • About 18 percent more apt to report higher happiness between ages 23-30 than those who didn't
  • 29 percent more likely to be volunteers
  • 33 percent less likely to use illegal drugs

Those who prayed or meditated at least daily as kids were, as young adults:

  • 16 percent more likely to report higher happiness
  • 30 percent less likely to have sex at a young age
  • 40 percent less likely to have a sexually transmitted disease

Special Needs Scouting

Scout Leader Quotes

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Founder of scouting, Robert Baden-Powell, made many remarkable observations about the benefits of scouting:

  1. " A week of camp life is worth six months of theoretical teaching in the meeting room. ” — Robert Baden-Powell

Affordability

Main Stream Sports are Expensive

  • Game over: Middle-class and poor kids are ditching youth sports - CBS News: But the rising cost of playing sports, coupled with rising economic inequality, is increasingly leading poor and even middle-class families to hang up their cleats. That trend is being fueled by the growth in "pay-to-play" sports, which is making organized athletics prohibitively expensive for many households.
  • Youth sports in the U.S. are diverging according to income -- more middle- and lower-income students quitting athletics while participation among wealthier children is rising.
  • The typical family with kids who play sports spends about $700 a year on fees, equipment and more, but some spend up to $35,000.
  • More public schools are also charging "pay-to-play" fees, pricing out some families.
  • Wealthier families often spend more on kids' sports in hopes of securing college admissions for their children.


2020 LDS Partnership

References

HealthFitness Revolution

  • See also:
  1. HealthFitnessRevolution.com Top 10 Health Benefits of Scouting for Boys and Girls
  2. HealthFitnessRevolution.com Top 10 Health Benefits of Hiking
  3. HealthFitnessRevolution.com Top 10 Health Benefits of Backpacking Treks

See Also