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Scout Scouts Canada
Scouts Canada, the country’s leading youth organization, offers five
challenging programs for boys, girls and youth age 5-26 in nearly 4,500
individual groups in most cities and towns across Canada. Over 150,000
young people enjoy Scouts Canada’s programs, which are provided by over 50,000
caring and dedicated volunteers. Scouts Canada’s national office
is located in Ottawa. Scouts
Canada is a not-for-profit organization (Charitable Registration No. 10776 1694
RR0028) and a member of the World
Organization of the Scout Movement.
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Our Mission, Principles and Practices
To contribute to the education of young people, through a value
system based on the Scout Promise and Law, to help build a better world where
people are self-fulfilled as individuals and play a constructive role in
society.
Scouting’s Mission is achieved by:
- involving youth throughout their formative years in a non-formal
educational process.
- using a specific method that makes each individual the principal agent in
his or her development as a self-reliant, supportive, responsible and
committed person.
- assisting youth to establish a value system based upon spiritual, social
and personal principles as expressed in the Promise and Law.
Scouting is based on three broad principles which represent its fundamental
beliefs. These include:
- Duty to God: Defined as, The responsibility to adhere to
spiritual principles, and thus to the religion that expresses them, and to
accept the duties therefrom.
- Duty to Others: Defined as, The responsibility to one's
local, national and global community members to promote peace, understanding
and cooperation, through
participation in the development of society, respect for the dignity of
one's fellow-beings, and protection of the integrity of the natural world.
- Duty to Self: Defined as, The responsibility for the
development of oneself to one's full potential physically, intellectually,
spiritually and socially.
Practices and Methods:
Scouts Canada employs a system of progressive self-education which
includes the following practices and methods:
- commitment to the values in a Promise and Law,
- learning by doing,
- membership in small groups,
- progressive and stimulating contemporary programs,
- commitment to the values of doing one's best, contributing to the
community, respecting and caring for others, contributing as a family
member,
- relevant through youth and young adult engagement
- use of outdoor activities as a key learning resource.
Vision
- NEW February 2006
To further our connection with Scouting members around the world, Scouts
Canada’s Board of Governors has adopted the World Scout Vision as our own.
Without a vision, there is no future. We feel that this Vision represents
Canada’s hopes and plans as we celebrate 100 years of Scouting and move into
the next century.
As
Scouting enters its second century, it sees itself as:
• a
credible, value-based, educational movement
• dynamic and
innovative
• involving more
and more young people, boys and girls, from
broader segments of society
• attractive
to adults, women and men, in all cultures
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making a real contribution to creating a better world.
 Scouts
Canada is a member of the International Organization of the Scout Movement
Contact Information
Scouts Canada, Southwestern OntarioAdministrative Centre
531 WindermereRd.,London,Ont.N5X 2T1
1-888-SCOUTSNOW (726-8876)
fax (519) 432-1677
- Electronic mail
- General Information: welland9venturers@hotmail.com
Webmaster: welland9venturers@hotmail.com
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Last modified: March 31, 2008
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