[MR] posted Guidelines for working with youth?

[Joe Shaffer]

Here's a decent overview of the BSA's youth protection policies.

http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/HealthandSafety/GSS/gss01.aspx

I think its important to note that the training, policies, etc are not
solely given to the adults. Both the scouts themselves and the parents are
also involved in the youth protection program.

One of the first requirements for the scout rank is to go through a pamphlet
on youth protection with the scout's parents.

I think this is it: http://www.scouting.org/filestore/ypt/pdf/46-015.pdf

The BSA also has 2 training videos for the youth which cover a variety of
topics. The first video is shown to all the scouts regularly (yearly in my
troop) and is titled "A Time to Tell."

Materials: http://old.scouting.org/pubs/ypt/pdf/46-013.pdf
Video: Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3yo_nj6bGs
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQrFJdIaqz8

The second video is for older scouts and covers topics like stalking,
harassment, and date rape. Its geared a little bit more towards protecting
their peers. I can't find a streaming link for you, but you could buy a copy
from the BSA if you wanted.

Theres also a cub scout video titled "It happened to me":
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2857416314137441269


-Gawin

On Mon, Aug 22, 2011 at 4:06 PM, Fen & Michelle <mobishob at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Not to abuse the bandwidth, but
>
> I feel that background checks don't cover everything. I sometimes wonder if
> more males would volunteer to mentors youth if not for the reminders of the
> risk in the news. Occasionally, some guy is falsely accused and even if he
> is later found innocent he is ruined. Financially, socially, marriage, etc.
> His name is Mudd and he is fortunate to still be amoung the living. And all
> that anyone remembers is that he was associated with something creepy. So I
> don't believe its unreasonable for many men to decide its simply not worth
> the risk.
>
> With that in mind, is there a published format of all these "two-deep"
> rules, etc?  Or something we can borrow from the Scouts?  It would be nice
> to have something our leaders could read over. It seems a better approach
> to teach our Mentors to never put themselves in that position.  We need to
> protect the children, but we also need to protect our brothers and sisters.
>
> Cheers
> Fen
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Joseph J. Shaffer
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