Timberline National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) is an exciting, action-packed, week-long program designed to provide young men a positive learning environment where development of leadership skills is at the core.  The skills learned are immediately put into practice through a variety of games and activities in a fun environment.

The program is designed for boys age 12-14 (usually 13.) The boy should have achieved the rank of 1st Class by the camp date.

Leadership

A major objective of Timberline is to give participants a working knowledge of advanced leadership skills, and help them relate these skills to their home and troop responsibilities.  Scouts also have a wide range of opportunities to share ideas and experiences with Scouts from other troops.  Leadership requires vision, goals, planning, and team work.  These are taught throughout the week in various settings including presentations and hands-on experiences.  The skills learned during the course also help prepare Scouts for fatherhood and lifetime leadership roles.

What it Represents

An NYLT course is set up to represent a month in the life of an ideal Boy Scout Troop.  Like the Troop, NYLT participants are assigned to a patrol of usually 4-6 boys.  The course emulates the first 3 weeks of the month complete with Patrol Leader Council meetings, Troop meetings, Patrol meetings, and planning for a big Troop event (the 4th week).  Incorporated throughout the course are a wide variety of games and activities that build individual skills and confidence, and also builds a patrol into a strong team.  Scouting is a boy-led program, and this helps put the ‘boy’ more strongly in charge.