Dana Friede, 2007 - 2008 Western Region Venturing President
Dana is from Montana Council, Montana. She a native of Seeley Lake, Montana and a registered Venturer with Crew 2982, chartered by the Seeley Lake Volunteer Fire Company. She is the Immediate Past President of Venturing Crew 2982 and a receipeint of the Venturing Silver Award.
Dana is an active leader in her Crew, the Mullan Trail and Prickly Pear Districts, and the Montana Council. Her accomplishments include being the Activity Chairperson for the 2005 Mullan Trail and Bitterroot Districts Klondike Derby and the first "Be Bear Aware" seminar conducted for the entire Seeley Lake Elementary School.
Dana, a full member of the Montana Council Risk Management Committee, led her Crew in the field testing of the Operational Risk Management process developed in response to a tragic caused occurrence suffered by the Montana Council in 2005. The Council was recently named the "Best of the Winners" in Risk Management for 2006 primarily because of the process developed and adopted in 2005 and promulgated across the entire Montana Council in 2006. Dana was a key member of the Council training team that led the initial presentations to Council leaders including the Council Executive Board.
Dana's Senior Project, a high school graduation requirement, was a full analysis and discussion of the precepts and principles of Operational Risk Management and introduced her high school and community to the principles that can be used in many areas of human endeavor to prevent caused occurrences – the word accident is no longer used by practitioners of ORM.
Dana also serves as a member of the Prickly Pear District Committee, will serve on the staff at Philmont Scout Ranch in the summer of 2007, and will provide support to the Montana Council BSA Powder Horn 2007 in late August.
She recently completed her Bachelor's Degree at the Montana Council College of Commissioner Science, currently holds CPR and First Aid certification from the American Red Cross, holds certification in Climb on Safely, Safe Swim Defense, Safety Afloat, Youth Protection training for the Boy Scouts and Venturing, and Virtus Youth Protection Training from the Catholic Diocese of Helena. Dana has also earned the Emergency Preparedness Award at the Silver level with the rest of Crew 2982 and received the Venturing Leadership Award from the Montana Council.
Dana is a student at Carroll College and is majoring in Communications and Public Relations.
To make the best use of Western Region Venturing resources, the Area Venturing Trainers will be working with Councils within their Area and local Metro Councils (Areas 6 & 7). Due to the large geographic are covered by Area 5, it has been broken into two groups. Bolded Councils are changes for 2008 that will consolidate and strengthen our ability to serve the Councils without undue travel.
Each Area Training Representative has been asked to have at least one, preferably two, Assistant/Deputies in order to not spread themselves too thin. As they are identified, they will be added to this page.
