Scouting, Volume 68, Number 5, October 1980 Page: 24
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Certain advertising in this magazine
contains offers of sales plans for individ-
ual or unit use. It must be clearly under-
stood that Scout unit use of these plans
to earn money must first be cleared with
the unit's local council and chartered in-
stitution. Ask for BSA Form No. 4427, from
your council.
The selling of any product must be
done on its own merits. Selling must not
be done in uniform or in the name of the
Boy Scouts of America except for non-
commercial products and then only when
approved by the local council. Sales in
uniform of commercial products violates
our policy of not permitting the move-
ment to be used for commercial pur-
poses. No one, unless authorized by the
National Council Executive Board, may
sign a contract of a commercial charac-
ter involving the Boy Scouts of America
or any chartered unit of the Boy Scouts of
America or for use of any of our insignia
or terminology with the product.
The products offered in these adver-
tisements have been examined by Scout-
ing magazine, and to the best of our
knowledge their value is commensurate
with the selling price suggested. All ad-
vertisers in this section are familiar with
the official policies of the Boy Scouts of
America and have indicated their willing-
ness to abide by them. Any Scouter re-
ceiving information or literature that is in
conflict with our policies should immedi-
ately notify Scouting Magazine, P.O. Box
61030, Dallas/Ft. Worth Airport, TX 75261.
United Way (from page 22)
developing plans. "The United Way was
telling us," Spanier says, "that they were
interested in funding innovative pro-
grams." Volunteer leaders of both groups
favored an in-depth study and the United
Way funded $20,000 to finance the
research.
This is the most recent example of the
close cooperation between the Scouts and
the United Way. Another example came
as the council moved toward a deeper
involvement with handicapped young
people in the Dayton area.
Handicapped kids want
Scouting, and they're
getting it in the Miami
Valley Council.
Earlier, as Scout Executive of the
Mohegan Council of Worcester, Mass.,
Spanier sensed the challenge of bringing
Scouting to the handicapped. "I was for-
tunate enough," he says, "to have on my
staff the only blind professional in Scout-
ing at the time. Even earlier, while serving
as director of a summer camp, Spanier had
observed a week-long program that in-
cluded a troop from the Governor Baxter
School for the Deaf. The deaf troop made
up a small percentage of the camp
population, but every Scout in camp as
well as the staff learned sign language. "By
the end of the week," he recalls, "the entire
camp community was communicating in
sign language. When you see the han-
dicapped Scouts get their Tenderfoot
badges with big smiles on their faces, that's
enough to do it. In Scouting for the han-
dicapped," he adds, "we haven't seen
more than the tip of the iceberg. There is
much more that can be done."
The Miami Valley Council set up a pilot
program, working with the Montgomery
County Board for Mental Retardation.
Spanier points out that the Scouts are
already equipped to work with the han-
dicapped. "We have all the tools of the
trade. The literature, everything," he says.
"And the school administrators like the
idea because they can rely on our people
working right alongside their staff who are
skilled in teaching the handicapped. We
do not change the basic concepts of our
program, but we adapt Scouting to the
handicapped. We have to do this if we
really are serious about making Scouting
available to all young people."
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First, the Scouting program was taken
into three schools for the handicapped in
Dayton. This 1979 pilot program involved
working with parents as well as children.
Parents may tend to be overprotective of
handicapped children, sometimes leaping
to the conclusion that their child cannot
participate in the kind of active program
they believe Scouting to be. This is the
time, as Spanier says, to adapt. During that
first year, the Miami Valley Council or-
ganized 12 Scout units in the three schools.
These units involved 147 young people.
"We are probably talking about getting
into Scouting another 450 in 1980," says
Spanier. This will be a start on reaching
the 5,000 to 6,000 available handicapped
young people in the area.
This growing council program for the
handicapped is backed by two volunteer
Scouting committees, a four-member
steering committee and a larger group to
work directly with the handicapped. From
the beginning, the council realized that, if
the plan grew, there would have to be a
professional Scouter to head up the pro-
gram for the handicapped. The profes-
sional's big job would be to assist com-
munity organizations in setting up Scout-
ing units for the handicapped.
Again, the council went to the United
Way to ask if it would be willing to finance
an innovative program aimed at reaching
these handicapped young people in the
community. The United Way approved
the plan and funded the $18,000 requested
to launch work with the handicapped.
As the Miami Valley Council moved
into this program, changes were needed in
the physical facilities around camps and
buildings to enable handicapped people to
move around with braces and wheelchairs.
Spanier's staff and volunteers wrestled
with these needs and decided the cost of
adapting for the handicapped would come
to $12,000. Here was a need for which
there was no funding, but based on the
$18,000 United Way allotment, the Scouts
were able to go to the Tait Foundation
which granted them $12,000 for the need-
ed alterations.
The clue to close cooperation between
United Way and the Scouts in Dayton is to
be found in the words of Joel O. Davis,
United Way executive director, "Their
people are concerned about Scouting but
also about the wise use of United Way
dollars. This indicates a community inter-
est among the volunteers."
In this atmosphere Spanier sees Scout-
ing as having a bright future. "If 1 have any
real concern," he said, "it is that we are not
telling our story. People need to under-
stand the role of Scouting in the com-
munity and know that we are training
leaders for tomorrow." ■
October 1980 Scouting
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