The major revisions to Scout Leader training, featuring a more modular "Training          Continuum", which took effect in 2001 have resulted in the training requirements for leaders to wear the "Trained" patch being different, the same materials are covered in a different format and combinations of courses. All Scout Leaders attend the New Leader Essentials course which is, in effect, an "Introduction to Boy Scouting",  this course presents the aims,
purposes and methods of the BSA and generally how Units work, this needs only be taken once. A volunteer then takes the "Job Specific" course for their currently registered position. Then, for some volunteers, the Introduction to Outdoor Leadership Skills finishes off the training. If a volunteer was fully trained for their current position before the change in the training format they are still fully trained until a change in position occurs, then the          volunteer would need to attend the new training. 
The final step in training is to attend and complete WOOD BADGE.

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