Jacqueline Alford, District Director of the Foothills District of the Boy Scouts America, sent us some information to pass along about two informational meetings they’re having next week in East Cobb regarding their first Family Cub Scouting Packs.
They’re for boys and girls who have completed pre-K through the 5th grade.
Pack 270 will hold an informational sign-up party next Tuesday, June 5, at the Emerson Unitarian Universalist Congregation (4010 Canton Road), at 6:30 p.m.
Next Thursday, June 7, Pack 518 will have a similar event, also starting at 6:30 p.m., at the Lutheran Church of the Incarnation (1200 Indian Hills Parkway).
Alford told us the family program has been around for a while, but has been expanded to include incoming kindergarteners and girls, who’ve been fully invited to join what’s also been renamed Scouts BSA.
She added:
A misconception is often that the Boy Scouts of America did this just to include girls, while that is true, it was more so to address the family as a whole. By opening the program to girls, families with boys and girls can now do the Cub Scouting together. Even before this announcement, sisters and cousins were going to Pack meetings and camp outs, but missed out on some of what the boys got to do. This now allows the girls to earn ranks and learn.
Because of this, there can now be three types of Packs: all boy Packs, all girl Packs, and family Packs (Packs with girls and boys, but Dens will be separated by gender).
The Foothills District includes around 25 or so packs of Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts in the East Cobb area.
For more information, email Jacquelyn Alford at jalford@atlantabsa.org or visit www.foothillsbsa.org.
