D. Scott Miller is the director for the Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.  Scott re-joined the DYYAM staff in June 2005.  Scott’s initiatives in the office include a revision of the High School Leadership Institute, the Bishops’ Summits on Vocations and the Sacrament of Confirmation, and co-wrote resources such as the Created to Love human sexuality curriculum, Building a Culture of Life with Middle and High School Students., and Technology Procedural Recommendations.

He maintains a daily web-blog at www.catholicYMblog.com.” Scott contributed to Harcourt’s Called to Discipleship web-based high school curriculum and has written for the Life Teen blog.

With over thirty years of youth ministry experience on the parish and diocesan levels, Scott previously served on the staff of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry, Inc as director of membership services. His responsibilities there included management of all aspects of the National Conference for Catholic Youth Ministry and the New Diocesan Directors’ Institute. Other areas of responsibility included collaboration on adolescent catechesis document and collaboration with America’s Promise, Catholic Relief Services, and True Love Waits.    

In his previous time (1995 to 1999) in Baltimore, he served as coordinator for adolescent sexuality for the DYYAM for the Archdiocese. His work promoted the values of a chaste lifestyle through educational and pastoral resources based on the Holy Father’s Theology of the Body for over fifteen thousand adolescents and fifty-five hundred adults and as he collaborated with other denominations in implementing True Love Waits.

In 2004, Scott was recognized by the Archdiocese of Baltimore with the Division of Youth and Young Adult Ministry’s Medal of Honor. In 2005, he completed his Master of Arts in Religious Education program at Felician College.

Scott has served as a volunteer coordinator for middle school youth ministry at St. Francis of Assisi Parish in Fulton, MD. Scott has his own youth ministry focus group as father to Nichole, 25, Johnanna, 25, Clark, 23, and Meghan, 18.

Before moving east, Scott served for nineteen years in parish, regional, diocesan, and prevention settings, mostly within the state of Iowa.

SPEAKING:

• Villanova Center for Study of Church Management
• East Coast Conference for Religious Edication
• World Youth Day
• National Catholic Youth Conference
• National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry (annual membership meeting)
• National Catholic Education Association
• National Association for Lay Ministry
• National Pastoral Life Center
• Los Angeles Religious Education Conference

Also, he has spoken in Arlington, Albany, Boise, Boston, Butte, Corpus Christi, Denver, Des Moines, Erie, Harrisburg, Honolulu, Little Rock, Philadelphia, Portland, Providence, Roanoke, Salt Lake City, Saint Louis,  Washington, DC, Wheeling, Wilmington, and Wichita.

Platforms:

www.catholicYMblog.com 
YouTube 
MyCatholicVoice 
SlideShare 
Twitter 
Facebook

While through a rough patch in his life in 2002,  he began to journal out various  feelings, observations…  trying to get a hold on what was real and what was important.  It was a bit of a spiritual act on introspection, seeking blessings amid life. For Scott, the journal was never a “handwritten in a spiral book” sort of thing, it was always typed out and filed into a computer folder. 

Eventually, it became less about his my life and more about his world as a single father and as associate director of the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry.

In 2004, he began to put it all up on-line… off into a quiet corner of the NFCYM’s web-site. The first post on Friday, August 20, 2004, read as:Greetings to the World.  My name is D. Scott Miller and I am starting a bulletin board log (BLOG) of information that might be shared with the Catholic Youth Ministry community. . . This is just a starting point.  I’m not sure where it is going to go.  I hope it will be personal.  I hope it will be per-fess-ion-ale (despite occasional grammar errors and mis-spellings) I hope it will be a resource for friends in the field.And so, we begin.

Interestingly enough, the third post announced a news story that eventually led to his present position in the  Archdiocese of Baltimore.

With the move from the NFCYM, the blog moved onto the servers of RaspaNet (of DisciplesNow fame.)  A few years back, at the behest of his father and (then) landlord, Clark Miller learned everything that Scott needed to know about WordPress in a weekend and the blog migrated over to there.

The blog has been referred to as the “411 of Catholic Youth Ministry.”  It has been a vehicle to continue to explore new technologies to communicate within our field.

The goals of the Catholic Youth Ministry Blog remain the same… to serve as a resource for friends in the field.

Favorite Posts:

• The Pizza Party is SO Over  o8/13/10
• Zombie Church 07/01/10
• Hacking Youth Ministry 04/08/10
• Doing Youth Ministry All Wrong 02/03/10
• Hysteresis 09/16/09
• Technology Procedural Recommendations 08/06/09
• Mr. Youth Minister Guy/ 05/14/09
• I Dare You 05/11/09
• The Catholic YM Blog Is No More 04/01/09
• The Power of Weeeeeeee 04/19/07