National Youth Leadership Training

National Youth Leadership Training is an exciting, action-packed program designed to provide youth members of the Boy Scouts of America with leadership skills and experience they can use in their home troops and in other situations demanding leadership for self and others.

For many years, junior leader training (JLT) was an important part of the leadership training continuum of BSA local councils throughout America . In 2003 and 2004, a task force of leadership experts and hundreds of Scouts in pilot courses across the nation reviewed and tested every aspect of the new NYLT, which incorporates the latest leadership ideas and presents fresh, vital, and meaningful training for today's Scouts.

Several issues spurred the change of the JLT name to correspond with its updated course content. Among them was to make clear that this is a national course. Also studies have told us that our membership would prefer to be referred to as youth rather than junior, so the name became clear-National Youth Leadership Training.

In order to attend an NYLT course, a Scout must have the following qualifications by the beginning of the course:

1) Be 13 years of age and have completed the seventh grade.
2) Be a First Class Scout

Thank you for applying to the NYLT course. The course being held July 13-19, 2008 is full. Please Check back for next year's course.