Getting Parents and Guardians Involved In Your Program
Parent's and guardians can help too! So, what is the their role in Scouting?

We Need Your Help!
A sample handout to recruit the help your program needs from parents and guardians.

Parent Involvement Document
This is another sample of a document that could be given and discussed with your parents and/or guardians. It's important to get them on your side, and supporting your leadership team in the running of the program.

First Meeting of the Year — A Parents Meeting
The reason for this [first] meeting is to familiarize parents and guardians with Scouting, the group, and the Colony. It explains the relationships and the reasons behind why we do certain things at certain times during the year.

First Letter of the Beaver Year
Here's a sample of the first letter you can send out (or give out) at the beginning of the Scouting year.

Beaver Parent Questionnaire
Part of the formula for a successful program is to have input from both the Beavers and their parents/guardians.

Beaver Parent's Handbook
This document represents one group's interpretation of a Beaver Parent's Handbook. The handbook is updated yearly and given out to parents and guardians at registration.

COPE — Behaviour Strategies
Although the target audience of this page is parents and guardians, Scouters can also benefit for the understanding and application of these strategies in their section. These include various strategies for building a child's self-esteem, helping a child move from one activity or task to another, getting a child to comply with requests, helping a child succeed, incentives, and time out.