Youth Protection and Personal Safety Awareness Month

The BSA has designated April as a time to focus on this important topic.

The BSA has designated April as "Youth Protection and Personal Safety Awareness Month" to review progress in training adult leaders about our youth protection strategies and helping our youth members increase their personal safety awareness.  A few key updates:

Cub Scout Program:  The personal safety awareness core message for Cub Scouts has been refined and serves as the focal point for the "Parent's Guide for Youth Protection" included in each handbook as well as the DVD "It Happened To Me."

Boy Scout Program:  The big news in Boy Scout Youth Protection strategies is the new requirements for advancement.  For the first time, Boy Scouts advancing through Tenderfoot, Second Class and First Class ranks will need to demonstrate some knowledge of personal safety awareness skills.  To support these requirements, the new version of "A Time To Tell" offers information boys need to successfully complete the requirements.

Venturing:  The "Personal Safety Guidelines" DVD was strengthened by adding a segment on teen suicide prevention and completely revising the material on Internet safety.

Remember, Youth Protection Training for adult leaders is available on-line by clicking on the "Online Training" link from our homepage.

All current information about BSA Youth Protection resources can be accessed at www.scouting.org by clicking on the Youth Protection button.
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"The object of the patrol method is not so much having the Scoutmaster trouble as to give responsibility to the boy."
Sir Robert Baden-Powell
Founder of the Boy Scouts