• We get to hear from you about the most critical issues for your unit's health, including which issues are urgent and emerging. 

• We will have direct written information from you on what your unit needs to be an ideal unit.

• This process maximizes our ability to learn about unit health so we can help your unit. 

• For the first time, we can see how our units are doing on each of the many performance criteria of the JTE.

• We can better identify where our limited resources, our commissioners, should be directed.

• Our units will become more healthy and prosper.

• Your District Commissioner, your unit commissioner, and others that the District Commissioner depends on to help your unit. 

• We will produce a completed Journey to Excellence form for your unit.

• We will recognize units for their accomplishments.

• We will report data only in summary form and not on and about individual units.

• We will use this information to look for trends across our programs and units within those programs to identify needs.

• We will share summary information with relevant committees, e.g., the training, marketing or membership committees, so they can serve your units better.

• Ultimately, the information will appear in your Unit Dashboard as a Detailed Assessment and may contain a Service Plan based on your input. 

Questions in the membership block (Asked of all Packs, Troops, Crews and Ships)

All of the Journey to Excellence questions, 11 for Troops, 10 for Cubs and 9 for Crews and Ships. You can find the appropriate JTE form with all questions for your unit on our JTE page here.

From the Unit Dashboard on my.scouting.org (The data is clearly displayed, you need only to copy into the reporting tool).

• Number of Adults Registered

• Number of Adults Not Trained in Position Training

• Actual Youth Total Membership This Year

• Actual Youth Total Membership Last Year

• New Youth Total This Year

• New Youth Last Year

• The number of youth in each age category

From your knowledge of your unit (data we cannot get anywhere else)

• Number of youth who aged-out

• Number of youth who quit 

• Number of youth that Joined

If your unit is a Pack  (data we cannot get anywhere else)

• Number of fifth graders in January 2023 

• Number of those who crossed to a troop

• Number of those who earned AOL

• How many different troops did your AOLs visit

If your unit is a Troop  (data we cannot get anywhere else)

• How many of your joiners were from Packs

From Scoutmasters

• Questions on Patrol Method

• During how many months in the last 12 did your troop conduct a short-term camping trip? 

• During how many months in the last 12 did your troop go on an activity or camping trip that was 2 or more hours away? 

• How many scouts attended summer camp

• How many scouts attended a camping experience of 4 to 6 nights (other than summer camp)

• How many scouts attended a camping experience of 7 or more nights (other than summer camp)

• Location of Summer Camp

 From Cubmasters

• How many scouts attended Webelos Residence Camp

• How many scouts attended Day Camp

• Possibly: How many months in the last 12 did your Pack conduct an activity that was not a Den or Pack Meeting

• Possibly: How many months in the last 12 did your Pack conduct a campout (not including Day or Resident Camp)

From Crew Advisors

• Possibly: A question about number of Tier II and III activities

• Possibly: A question comparing the number of registered Crew Members to the number of multiples.

From Ship Skippers

no specific Questions.

For members who will have turned 18 by January 1, 2024, and wish to continue their membership:

• Must complete Adult Application, CBC, YPT and Hazardous Weather training.  An alternative is to register as Unit College Scouter Reserve for which Hazardous Weather training is not required.

• Venturing youth who are 18 years old or older at the time of their first application to a Venturing unit must complete an Adult Application, CBC and YPT, and register as a Venturing Participant (VP).

• For those with special needs who want to continue to advance to Eagle rank, must complete Adult Application, CBC and YPT, and register as a UP (unit participant).

• Packs with Scouts “crossing over” to troops and troops with Scouts expected to “cross over” from packs must communicate with each other to determine the date of crossover.  Should the date be prior to January 1, 2024, the troop should include the Scout on its roster.

• When a member is listed as a “multiple”, it means that member is a member of one or more other units and the membership fee is paid in another unit (the primary registration).  This occurs with the COR when the chartering organization charters more than one unit.

• In such cases, the unit carrying that member as a “multiple” must confirm that the member’s fee is, in fact, paid in the unit of primary registration.

• As of August 1, 2023, all new youth and adult members will be enrolled in a 12-month membership cycle.  

• The full annual membership fee will now be paid online by the anniversary date.  

• The anniversary date for all existing members (registered before August 1, 2023) will now be December 31.

• All members will receive email notices (with copies to unit leaders) and a link to the renewal website beginning 60 days before their anniversary date.  

• When updating the roster, newly-registered members will be marked as "prepaid" and no fee will be due.