Registration and Reregistration News for Merit Badge Counselors

Guide to Advancement 2011:

7.0.1.5 Registration and Reregistration

Merit badge counselors register at no fee, using the Boy Scouts of America’s standard adult registration form with position code 42. Designated members of the council or district advancement committee should provide the approval signature. The council advancement committee annually coordinates counselor reregistration. This may be done as part of the local council charter renewal process. A letter or message extending an invitation can be sent to each counselor who is to be approved for another year. Those identified as not following Boy Scouts of America policies and procedures, or not providing services as promised, should not be invited to return.

Volunteers who are properly registered as merit badge counselors can renew annually without completing an adult application; their names will appear on the district roster for renewal. Anyone who is currently unregistered, or who is registered in another position but also desires to serve as a merit badge counselor, must complete an adult application.

There may be counselors that were dropped because they did not return the reregistration letter. If those individuals want to be merit badge counselors again they must complete a standard adult registration AND the merit badge counselor information sheet.

Those registered counselors that want to add a merit badge only need to submit a new merit badge counselor information sheet.