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The White Stag Leadership Development Program, founded in 1958, is a summer camp for youth 11-18 led by two California-based non-profits that sponsor leadership development activities. The teen youth staff of the two programs develop and produce several week-long leadership summer camps every year for several hundred youth from Central and Northern California and a few youth from other states and countries. The outdoors program relies on hands-on learning methods to help develop leadership competencies in youth. Originally founded on the Monterey Peninsula, California, in 1958 by Dr. Béla H. Bánáthy, there are currently two programs. One program in Concord, California is sponsored by the White Stag Association and a second program in Monterey, California is sponsored by the White Stag Leadership Development Academy. The entire program traces its history to the 1933 World Jamboree in Gödöllő, Hungary, which took as its emblem the white stag of Hungarian mythology. Four boys who did not know each other attended the Jamboree and met in the 1950s to lead the White Stag program. Founder Béla H. Bánáthy, a junior officer in the Hungarian Army during World War II, served on the National Council of the Hungarian Scout Association and became the voluntary national director for youth leadership development. At the end of the war, he narrowly escaped Soviet capture and likely execution. After considerable personal trials he arrived in June 1951 in Monterey, California to teach at the Army Language School. There he met two other Hungarians who had escaped the country before Soviet occupation, Joe Szentkiralyi and Paul Sujan, who had also attended the 1933 World Jamboree. They were initially assisted by a local American Scouter, Fran Peterson. Bánáthy became the Monterey Bay Area Council Training Chairman and developed an experimental program to train Scouts in leadership skills. He collaborated with research psychologist Paul Hood, who was leader of Task NCO (Non-Commissioned Officer), a research project by the U.S. Army that sought to identify the essential leadership skills of non-commissioned leaders. As part of his Master's thesis, Bánáthy identified eleven specific leadership competencies that he taught in the program's summer camp. The efforts of the four men, assisted by Maury Tripp, rapidly gained the attention of the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. They conducted extensive research that validated Bánáthy's leadership model and developed its own version for nationwide use. They introduced the leadership competencies during the 1970s into both the adult Wood Badge program and youth-focused National Youth Leadership Training. These two programs had originally focused primarily on teaching Scoutcraft skills and the Patrol Method. The change to teaching leadership was a marked cultural shift for how both adults and youth were trained in the skills of Scouting. The program is currently developed and delivered by two independent non-profit groups in the Monterey Bay Area and in the San Francisco East Bay. In recent years, their youth staff plan and put on three week-long summer camp programs at locations in Central and Northern California. The programs draw most of their participants from California, but attendees have come from Texas, Virginia, and international locations including France, Taiwan, Brazil, and China. The eleven leadership competencies remain a key part of both training program. The program, which observed its 50th anniversary in 2008, has served over 21,000 youth since its inception. == History == White Stag traces its direct roots to 1933 and Gödöllö, Hungary, and the Fourth World Scout Jamboree which three of its founders attended. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「White Stag Leadership Development Program」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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