The BSA has announced bold, wide-ranging updates to its Youth Protection program as part of an ongoing effort to protect young people from child abuse. This starts with an enhanced online Youth Protection training course ("YPT2") that all volunteers must complete.
Even those Scout leaders who took the previous version of Youth Protection training must log into My.Scouting.org and complete the updated Youth Protection course.
- Anyone registered in any volunteer capacity with the BSA
- All Assistant Scoutmasters
- All Committee Members
- Plus, anyone who plans to attend a troop function or drive Scouts to and from Scout events.
You do NOT have to be a registered leader to take Youth Protection Training. In fact, the more of our Troop families that take it, the more protected ALL of our Scouts are!
If you are a registered leader, be sure to use your BSA member number when you log into your my.scouting account so that your updated training shows up in the Council records. It should automatically be updated in Scoutbook as well.
Not sure what your BSA member number is? You can find it in your profile in Scoutbook.
DEADLINE FOR COMPLIANCE: OCTOBER 1, 2018
Don't let your YPT certification expire!!
Besides being unable to participate in troop events, if you are a Merit Badge Counselor, your Merit Badge Counselor record will expire when your YPT expires and you must resubmit the paperwork to become a counselor again.
And a word to the wise – don’t wait until the end of September to take the new course. There are nearly a million adult volunteers and thousands of Scouting professionals who have to take the new online course.
And many of them will wait until the last minute to take it. You don’t want to be in a situation where the website is terribly slow, making the experience excruciating, or perhaps even crashes, leaving you without a valid YPT certification.
Take it early and avoid potential hassles!
Take it now!
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