Adult Required: Venturing

I’m an Advisor or Associate Advisor – what’s required to be “100% trained”?

1. Youth Protection Training
   
2. Hazardous Weather Training
3. Advisor-Specific Training

Youth Protection Training – Scouting America places the greatest importance on creating the most secure environment possible for our youth members. Every adult must be current in Youth Protection Training (sometimes called “YPT” for short).

• • You may take Youth Protection Training in a self-paced online course through Scouting America’s national web training center called My.Scouting.org.
  • The training must be renewed every two years.
  • If you still feel like you’re not sure what Youth Protection Training is, visit this page for a little more information.

Hazardous Weather Training – This training discusses how to manage risks from the weather to our Scouting family.

• • You may take Hazardous Weather Training in a self-paced online course through Scouting America’s national web training center called My.Scouting.org.
  • The training must be renewed every two years.
  • If you still feel like you want more information about Hazardous Weather Training, visit this page.

Advisor-Specific Training – This course will give you an introduction to everything you need to know about being an Advisor, from helping the crew President and other youth leaders run the program to working with the crew Committee.

• • You may take Advisor-Specific Training in a self-paced online course through Scouting America’s national web training center called My.Scouting.org.
  • Advisor-Specific Training does not expire.
  • If you still feel like you’re not sure what Advisor-Specific Training is, visit this page for a little more information.

I’m a Crew Committee Chair or Member – what’s required to be “100% trained”?

1. Youth Protection Training
   
2. Crew Committee Challenge Training

Youth Protection Training – Scouting America places the greatest importance on creating the most secure environment possible for our youth members. Every adult must be current in Youth Protection Training (sometimes called “YPT” for short).

• • You may take Youth Protection Training in a self-paced online course through Scouting America’s national web training center called My.Scouting.org.
  • The training must be renewed every two years.
  • If you still feel like you’re not sure what Youth Protection Training is, visit this page for a little more information.

Crew Committee Challenge Training – This course introduces you to everything you need to know about running the “business side” of your crew, in conjunction with the Advisor. It won’t answer every single question you have, but it’s a great start.

• • You may take Crew Committee Challenge Training in a self-paced online course through Scouting America’s national web training center called My.Scouting.org.
  • Crew Committee Challenge Training does not expire.
  • If you still feel like you’re not sure what Crew Committee Challenge Training is, visit this page for a little more information.

Wood Badge is BSA’s “next level” training course that puts you in the position of your Scouts, working together as members of a Cub Scout Pack, Scouts BSA Troop, Venturing Crew, or Sea Scouts Ship.

Come for just the morning or all day, to focus on serious topics or just to have fun learning new skills! The University of Scouting offers more than 100 classes in 5 different “colleges,” with dozens of new classes each year.

Scouting’s strength is in the people who belong to the program. MEGA Training offers you to meet other Scouting volunteers like yourself while also taking one of those important training courses you need to finish to become a better leader.

Climbing and Rappelling are among the Scouting activities which challenge and captivate the imagination of all ages.

C.O.P.E. is a set of group initiative games and low and high course activities where participants climb, swing, balance, jump, and think of solutions to a variety of activities.

Chaplain training is focused on providing the best trained and motivated adult volunteers to help Scouts uphold their Duty to God from the Scout Oath, and the 12th point of the Scout Law: A Scout is Reverent.

Wilderness First Aid is a 16-hour hands-on course that emphasizes issues that may be encountered with illness and injury when medical care is more than one hour away.

Whenever Scouts swim, Scouting America’s Safe Swim Defense plan must be followed. This training will cover the plan’s eight points.

Before a Scouting America group may engage in any watercraft activity, adult leaders for such activity must complete Safety Afloat training , have a Safety Afloat commitment card, and be dedicated to full compliance with all nine points of Safety Afloat.

Training for Scouting America’s Swimming and Water Rescue provides leaders with information and skills to prevent, recognize, and respond to swimming emergencies during unit swimming activities.

Climb On Safely is Scouting America’s procedure for organizing climbing/rappelling activities at a natural site or a specifically designed facility such as a climbing wall or tower.

Prevent accidents from happening on the way to or from Scouting activities.

Help Scouts earn Nova Awards and encourage their natural curiosity about STEM concepts and fields.

Supernova awards honor Scouts for exceptional STEM achievement. But, Scouts can’t earn a Supernova unless they work with a Supernova Mentor.

The Trainer’s EDGE is a required train-the-trainer course for Wood Badge and National Youth Leadership Training (NYLT) staff.