Youth
Protection Training for adult leaders has historically consisted of
a 90-minute in-person class structured around a videotape. In early
2003 BSA announced the availability of Youth Protection Training as
an interactive web-based class that takes about 30 to 45 minutes. Dial-up
users have experienced problems, and at this time BSA recommends this
online course only for broadband users (e.g., cable modem, DSL, T1-style
connection at work, etc.).
BSA policy urges all registered adult leaders who work with scouts to
take Youth Protection Training every two years. Hopefully, the availability
of this class on the web will make it easier for all such leaders to
do this. The in-person training will continue to be offered by the district
in the spring and the fall.
Here are the steps for broadband users to take the online Youth Protection
Training class. (You may want to print these directions before you proceed.)
• Click here.
Bookmark the resulting page.
• Read that page and then click "Online Youth Protection
Training."
• Read that page and then click "Online Youth Protection
Training course." This will take you to the national BSA web site,
www.scouting.org. Do not bookmark this national page as your Youth Protection
access. You must access the online Youth Protection Training system
via a Council web site; if you try to go straight to the national YPT
page, you'll get an error message. (In order for your completion of
this class to be recorded by the Council, you must start from the web
site of the Council where you are registered as an adult leader.)
• On the resulting page, fill in the information about yourself
so that your completion can be credited:
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The "Name" entry has four boxes, one each for first, middle,
last, and suffix in that order. Put the correct information in the
correct box. You may leave the Middle Name and/or Suffix boxes blank.
If possible, enter your name as it appears on your BSA membership
card. (However, this is not essential.)
• One of the fields is "Member number." That number
is on your BSA membership card. Entering it helps to ensure that
your completion of the course will be recorded in the Council’s
records, but it is not essential; you may leave this box empty if
you like.
• In the "Unit" dropdown box, select "Troop."
• Leave the "Organization" field blank.
• Click the "Begin" button when you have finished
filling out the form.
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• In the upper right corner of the resulting screen there is a
tab that says either “Audio On” or “Audio Off.”
If it says “Audio On,” click that tab to toggle it to “Audio
Off.” This will speed things up.
• On each page, read the text, scroll down as necessary, and click
any hypertext (colored underlined text) that asks you a question.
• Scroll to the bottom of each page and click the "Next"
button to move to the next page. (Don't just click the "Next"
button without reading the text; there is a test at the end of the class.)
• Several interactive questions are presented during the class.
If you give an incorrect answer, you will receive a message to this
effect and the only course navigation button that will be available
will be the "Back" button. Click that button and give a different
answer.
• At the end of the course there is a test. If you pass the test,
you will get a screen that congratulates you and lists three things
that you must “download” in order to complete the course.
You may print these documents, save them to disk, or simply open them.
At the bottom of that page, click “Click here” to report
your training to our local council.
Once you complete the above steps, you should receive a completion certificate
via e-mail within a day or two. It will be a .pdf file with a color
image that looks a lot like the cards that are issued for the in-person
Youth Protection classes. You may print the certificate and/or save
the file to disk. IMPORTANT: if you take the online course and the test
via broadband, and you see a notice on the screen that you completed
everything successfully, but you don't receive this certificate within
two business days after completing the class, please report this to
Annette Donfor at NCAC (adonfor@boyscouts-ncac.org)
and ask her to send you a completion certificate.
Even though this online system will record your successful completion
of the class in the Council records, this does not get reported back
to the troop. Please report your successful completion of online Youth
Protection Training to Kevin Doyle (doyle@syrres.com)
so that he can record it in your Troopmaster database record. One convenient
way to do this might be to forward to Kevin the e-mail message that
transmits your completion certificate to you.
-Tim Kelly
Committee Chair
kelly99@verizon.net
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