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Basic Council Information
Our mission is to ensure that every
eligible youth in our service area has the opportunity to join the Boy
Scouts of America, participate in a quality Scouting program, develop
leadership skills, and build character, citizenship and personal fitness.
Our Scouting
programs help young people reach their full potential by turning them
away from drugs, gangs, juvenile delinquency and violence and helping them
to focus on developing positive traits such as physical and mental
fitness, self-worth, self-esteem, self-reliance, personal satisfaction,
patriotism, and respect for others.
More than 10,000
young people, including 300 with disabilities, from kindergarten through
college participate in the Long Beach Area Council's variety of
age-appropriate programs. These activities are led by over 2,500
dedicated volunteers with the support of the services, staff, and
facilities of the Scout Service Center and camps.
We are able to
provide a quality program through
the chartered partner relationships that we enjoy with hundreds of
community based churches, schools, community organizations, and
businesses. We are constantly looking to work with new organizations.
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