About Us
The Mountain West Council provides services and youth-development programs to families and community organizations in Southwest Idaho and Eastern Oregon. These Five key areas of focus ensure outstanding opportunities for youth and adult members:
Achievement: The Scouting experience includes learning valuable skills and achieving meaningful goals. Scouting America promotes learning, taking initiative, being accountable and responsible, owning committements, providing selfless community service, and personal growth. Milestone acheivements and rank advancment are recognized through special ceremonies and Scouting traditions that builds self confidence by learning the lesson of dedicating oneself to work hard to achieve their goals.
Character: Through proven methods, training, experiences, and program, Scouting helps shape and build in youth the skills, that teach and guide good moral and ethical decision making in life. Youth learn and live the twelve points of the Scout Law that will transend into their personal and professional life. In short, Scouting’s teaches youth and helps them get Prepared for Life™.
Leadership: Scouting’s purpose is to prepare young people for a lifetime of leadership. In all of Scouting America's programs the youth will hold some form of leadership position in their unit that gives them real life experience in how to be and become a great leader. Our local communities, businesses, and nation will never outgrow the need for thoughtful, responsible, moral, and ethical leadership. The values, methods, and leadership lessons from Scouting are timeliess and will continue to endure the test of time.
Outdoors: Learning to appreciate our world and our place in it remains essential to the Scouting experience. Youth learn useful life skills in how to Leave No Trace™, by teaching conservation, evironmental protection, and what they can do to leave the world better than they found it. Scouting's Outdoor Code is the method to appreciating and protecting the great outdoors. Youth today face many sociial meadia and techonology distractions, but Scouting America promotes youth to unplug their technology to be actively involved in the Scouting experience and journey that prepares them for life.
Service: The Scout slogan means to help others selflessly by "Doing a Good Turn Daily" without expecting or accepting any reward. The commitment and dedication by the Scouts parents and/or adult guardians to be fully trained in their volunteer positions helps build a solid foundation for youth into the future by instilling in them the character traits of the Scout Oath and Scout Law. Scouting helps youth of America find—in themselves and in the world around them— more than they thought possible.