Finally, the participants evaluate what knowledge they have gained and make a plan to apply it at home. To do this they need an understanding of one another, a common identity, so that members feel some loyalty and commitment to one another. They must become a working, cohesive unit. In the course of the planned outdoor program, the patrol counselors insert at scheduled intervals new information about the knowledge, skills, and abilities that comprise this thing called leadership. This kind of activity happens every summer during White Stag leadership development camp at Camp Pico Blanco.
New members are always welcome to join our Youth Staff .
We train from 140 to 260 youth in our two one-week long camps each summer. White Stag is sponsored by a voluntary, nonprofit, federal tax-exempt organization of parents and alumni. About the Author Brian Phelps began participating in White Stag when he was 12 years old. He became Director of the White Stag Leadership Development Program 11 years later while attending San Francisco State University. He was for five years a professional Scouter in the San Francisco Bay Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America.