Camp Staff / NYLT Staff - training opportunities:

Required for all Camp Staff and NYLT Staff:

Y01 - Youth Protection Training (on-line)

This 45 minute Youth Protection Training course is an excellent overview to help insure the safety of youth in a unit. It teaches how Scouting works with parents to teach Scouts about abuse avoidance. It covers physical, sexual, and emotional abuse and neglect, and helps adult Scouting volunteers identify signs of potential abuse. It also provides guidelines for reporting abuse.

The course also includes with discipline in units, including adult leader responsibility, involving parents, establishing a code of conduct, being clear about expectations and consequences, providing activities with a purpose, and avoiding adolescent power struggles.

This interactive online course features case studies to review how BSA Youth Protection might be violated. The course ends with a 25 question test on Youth Protection, with a minimum 80% score required for Youth Protection certification. A leader’s Youth Protection certificate is valid for two years, after which the course must be retaken.

Required for your Scouting position:

D69 – Trainer’s Edge/Trainer Development Conference

The Trainer’s EDGE replaces the Trainer Development Conference (BSA 500) as the required train-the-trainer course for Wood Badge and NYLT staffs. It is meant to supplement the practice offered through Wood Badge and NYLT staff development, with a focus on the participant, while raising the level of skill a trainer brings to the staff experience. Only practice can polish these skills, but this course is intended to “train the trainer” on behaviors and resources while offering hands-on experience in methods and media.

Optional for your Scouting position:

A01 - This is Scouting (on-line)

“This is Scouting” is a great 50 minute overview of Scouting. It has hundreds of images of fun Scouting activities, showing Cub, Boy and Venture Scouting. “This is Scouting” is a great video not only for Scouters, but for parents of Scouts. You may want to direct parents to the site for this overview. It will help them understand what Scouting is all about. Parents do not need a BSA membership number to create a MyScouting e-learning account. They can log into MyScouting e-learning to take the course. (If they later become a registered Scouter, they should notify your Pack Trainer or the Scout office that they have taken “This is Scouting” to get training credit.)

Topics covered include: the mission, values and vision of Scouting, the advancement program, different Scouting programs for young people ages 7-20, type and level of adult involvement in different phases of Scouting, what youth and adults get out of being in Scouting, how to provide a fun program for youth and adults, outdoors, community service, and Youth Protection.

D75 – Health and Safety Course

This is a 90-minute training session emphasizing the “Sweet 16 of Safety” in detail. This course is to be completed by all unit leaders, and district and council staff. All leaders should receive this training every two years.

Weather Hazards (on-line)

At least one Scouter on an outdoor event must have taken this new on-line course, to insure the safety of your unit in the event of bad weather. Scouting rules have recently changed regarding lightning events, and issues regarding tornadoes, lightning, flooding, hot and cold weather, hail and hurricanes are covered in this session. This training is mandatory for at least one adult on each tour.

"Tell me and I'll forget...Show me and I may remember... Involve me and I will understand." - Ben Franklin