Journey to Excellence & Rechartering

As part of the rechartering process, each unit is asked to complete the Journey to Excellence Scorecard. Scouting's Journey to Excellence is the BSA's planning, performance, and recognition program designed to encourage and reward the success of our units, districts and councils. The program is meant to encourage excellence in providing a quality experience at all levels of the BSA.  To help units achieve the Journey to Excellence Award, there are 3 things that units need to completed by the end of the year (December 31, 2017). 

1. Advancement:  Units must be sure all of their youth advancement is recorded in the Council system (ScoutNet) by utilizing Internet Advancement (preferred method) or submitting advancement (paper records) to the Council office.  Please submit advancement reports before December 15 to allow time for records to be manually entered.

2. Community Service Hours:  The Unit's community service hours that have been performed throughout 2017 need to be recorded into the "service hour website", which can be found on the Journey to Excellence webpage or my.scouting legacy tools.

3.  Training: Be sure all adult volunteer trainings that have been completed online or in a classroom are recorded in each leader's profile. This can be checked by one of the unit's Key 3 members logging into my.scouting.org and accessing the training manager.  Contact the Council office if your leader's training is not showing in my.scouting.

The annual charter renewal process has begun: The re-registration of the youth and adults that are active in your Scouting program.  Key 3 members (unit leader, chartered organization/sponsor representative and unit committee chairman) of each unit that renews in January and February have been emailed the recharter code specific to their unit and instructions on how to renew their unit(s).  The online rechartering system will be available to January Units on December 1 and February Units on January 1.  Information about rechartering, renewal fees, instructions and a helpful turtorial can be found at: http://www.bsaonsc.org/internetrechartering.html.  New this year: units have the option to file completely online by electronic approval by the Chartered Rep. and payment with a credit card.  Online rechartering works best with Google Chrome.

How to prepare in advance: Key 3 members, log into My.scouting.org and review your unit’s roster and training report. Anyone not appearing on the roster will need to complete an application to turn in before you start the recharter process, or turn it in with your recharter paperwork once it is complete.  Any adult that did not complete Youth Protection Training (YPT) in 2017 will need to complete the course.  Please review the training report and inform individuals that need to complete YPT to do so before they can be renewed. 

Please do not hesitate to reach out to your District Executive, Commissioner or the Council office if you need assistance with rechartering or Journey to Excellence.