There are 14,813 trained leaders volunteering their time and talent to serve the youth in the nineteen counties making up the council.

H. Roe Bartle Scout Reservation is a Boy Scouts of America reservation located in 4,200 acres (17 km2) of woodland outside of Osceola, Missouri, and bordering on Truman Lake in the Heart of America Council (HOAC) Lone Bear district.

It was named after former Kansas City, Missouri, mayor and Boy Scout council executive H. Roe Bartle.

[1] The camp was named after Kansas City civil engineer and draftsman Theodore Naish, who was killed in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915.

At the 2006 NOAC, the Ceremonial Team was chosen to represent the plains tribes with their Cheyenne set of regalia in a living museum.