The general purpose of Cub Scout Trainer Wood Badge was to develop Council and District trainers to provide effective administration and implementation of Cub Scout leadership training, thus ensuring a quality Cub Scout program.

Cub Scout Trainer Wood Badge was the advanced training program for trainers of Cub Scout leaders. This included members of District and Council Cub Scout leader training teams, as well as Cub Scout Roundtable Commissioners and their staffs. Other volunteer and professional Scouters with Cub Scout leader training responsibilities were also invited to attend.

Each Region typically conducted one or two Cub Scout Trainer Wood Badge courses each year. Participants attended only by invitation from the Region, based on recommendations by their Council. As a result, Cub Scout Trainer Wood Badge courses were not as numerous as Boy Scout Leader's Wood Badge courses, and the staff and participants of a Cub Scout course contained Scouters from across the Region.

1999 was the final year nationwide for the Cub Scout Trainer Wood Badge program. The final Cub Scout Trainer Wood Badge course, W-CS-45, was held at Peaceful Valley Scout Reservation in Elbert, Colorado in September 1999.

Verdugo Hills Council Scouters at W-CS-45. Left to right - Staffer Brant Reed, Participants Wes Hanson, Dana Scarlata and Steve Eisinger	From the Aloha Council in Hawaii, to the Denver Area Council in Colorado -- the W-CS-45 Staff

In 2000, the BSA field tested a new program that would eventually come to be named, "Wood Badge for the 21st Century". This program is intended to serve adult leadership in Cub Scouting, Boy Scouting and Venturing, and focuses on leadership skills. Unlike the Regional offerings of Cub Scout Trainer Wood Badge, the new Wood Badge program will be offered in local councils or council clusters. The first local offerings of this exciting and totally new program were offered in 2001.