Countdown List of 10 Important Points in a New Parents Guide

09/08/21 • 10 min

Having a great new parents guide as a tool for your recruitment team is extremely important. This countdown list of 10 important points will help make your guide even better. This should also be kept up-to-date as often as needed. don't limit yourself to just these ten items. Presented here in no particular order. Having a list of who to contact, a schedule of events, meeting location, fees & cost, fundraising opportunities, levels of participation, code of conduct, and any charter restrictions.

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Youth Protection Training for Everyone? - YPT

Youth protection is a priority in Scouting. The training for youth protection starts with the parent guide that is part of the scouts' handbook. Unit leaders will often show videos produced by Scouts BSA before taking the scouts out for a long-term camping adventure. Unit leaders are required to keep their youth protection training up-to-date. Parents should be highly encouraged (but not required) to take Youth Protection Training (YPT) online the same way the unit leaders do. Parents should set up a free account on my.scouting.org and take the online training. Even youth staff at camp go through youth protection training by the camp director.

⚠️ Important: Unit leaders, please ask your parents to do the training and print out the certificate. Because the free account is not attached to a BSA ID there will be no way to account for this training with your unit access. If the parent joins the leadership of your unit a BSA ID number can be attached to the account. Only then will the training be attached to, and accessible for reports to your unit.

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Scout Law Around the World

Scouting started at the beginning of the 20th century. Baden-Powell the founder of Scouting believed in basic principles found in the Scout Law today. Scouting has grown over the years and around the world. Although the Scout Law has been adapted for each country's Scouting organization it still has in its core the same meaning. In the United States, the Scout Law has 12 keywords that evoke a meaning that could fill volumes. In many other countries, it is a simple 10 point text similar or verbatim to Baden-Powell's original text. Each countries interpretation and translation of the same principle is unique and culturally defined.

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