{"id":11,"date":"2016-07-23T16:23:33","date_gmt":"2016-07-23T16:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.17thblackbears.com\/?page_id=11"},"modified":"2022-08-09T14:25:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T18:25:35","slug":"about-bpsa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.17thblackbears.com\/?page_id=11","title":{"rendered":"About Outdoor Service Guides!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outdoor Service Guides (OSG) is an inclusive, co-ed, outdoor, and service-focused scouting organization in the United States. The organization was founded in the early 2000s and has served as a safe space for all scouts to grow, learn, and be of service to their communities in the years since.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>We strive to be radically inclusive and have from the beginning. We want to bring the magic of scouting to everyone and make the game of scouting something everyone can enjoy.<\/li>\n<li>We are closely based on the original vision of scouting. This means we wear uniforms, go outside, teach kids outdoor skills, learn to be self-reliant and part of a team, and celebrate scouts for doing their best.<\/li>\n<li>We are run and managed by volunteers. We are a group of dedicated families working together to make great things happen for our families and communities. It&#8217;s all for the love of the game.<\/li>\n<li>We have a narrow focus: scout craft and service. We do these two things with passion and we do them extremely well.<\/li>\n<li>We are community-oriented and family-friendly. We have appropriate space for every member of a family who wants to scout.<\/li>\n<li>We empower youth, building confidence through outdoor skills and encouraging teamwork and leadership.<\/li>\n<li>We also foster a devotion to service where these skills are used to better our communities and develop a sense of belonging and citizenship in our communities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Outdoor Service Guides is a member of the World Federation of Independent Scouts (WFIS). For more information, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/outdoorserviceguides.org\/\">https:\/\/outdoorserviceguides.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.17thblackbears.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/OSG-LOGO.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1157\" width=\"350\" height=\"350\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outdoor Service Guides (OSG) is an inclusive, co-ed, outdoor, and service-focused scouting organization in the United States. The organization was founded in the early 2000s and has served [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-11","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.17thblackbears.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.17thblackbears.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.17thblackbears.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.17thblackbears.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.17thblackbears.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.17thblackbears.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1435,"href":"https:\/\/www.17thblackbears.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/11\/revisions\/1435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.17thblackbears.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}