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Youth Protection Training Modules Update

Youth Protection Training Will Be Updated on June 1

 

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• This does not change the frequency that an individual must take Youth Protection training. It continues to be two years and the renewal continues to be based on the date you took YPT.
• There are no large changes to the content, rather small adjustments.

 

Over the decades, the Boy Scouts of America has been a leader in developing training and policies designed to keep young people safe. Over time, these policies have become standard with organizations across the nation. True youth protection can be achieved only through the focused commitment of everyone in Scouting. It is the mission of Youth Protection volunteers and professionals to work within the Boy Scouts of America to maintain a culture of Youth Protection awareness and safety at the national, regional, area, council, district, and unit levels.

We have heard your feedback and are now releasing updates to the mandatory online Youth Protection Training to include items such as:
• New mobile friendly design.
• Updates to the certification test to make questions less ambiguous.

We will communicate when this new release is available – the target date is June 1st, 2021.

It is recommended that anyone who has started the online training prior to this date complete the training as the new versions will cause the loss of any progress in a module.

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Pick.Click.Give.

Each year many of the Midnight Sun Council supporters contribute their Friends of Scouting donations through the Pick Click Give option.

This is just another option which allows Alaskan residents to pledge and pay a portion of their Permanent Fund Dividend (PFD) in support of the youth, volunteers, and Scouting. Below is a link that takes you right to the Councils summary on the PFD webpage. This is a great way to pledge now and pay later.

The deadline to make adjustments for donations from the 2023 PFD is August 31, 2023.

For more information, please contact CJ at Clinton.Stewart@Scouting.Org     

 

https://www.pickclickgive.org/index.cfm/pfdorgs.info/Midnight-Sun-Council-Boy-Scouts-Of-America

 

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Cub Scout Adult Leader Training

The Cub Scout English E-Learning and Facilitated  Adult Training have been updated to match current Cub Scout Program changes and updates to include using Scoutbook – especially in relation to conducting a Cub Scout Den Meeting using the Den Leader Experience. 
  
The new modules are available in the BSA Learn Center, and the following modules have been updated:
 
-Conducting a Cub Scout Den Meeting Annual Program Planning
-Cub Scout Uniforms
-Conducting a Cub Scout Pack Meeting Resources
-Involving Adults in Cub Scouting
-Conducting a Cub Scout Pack Committee Meeting
-The new English Facilitated materials can be downloaded from the scouting.org/training/adult page or by clicking here.
 
We encourage even those already position trained to accomplish the new modules so they are current with the latest program changes.
 
Cub Scout-Leader-Training-Facilitator-Guide
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Midnight Sun Council News

Don’t miss the Midnight Sun Council News!

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 – Midnight Sun Council Response to National Chapter 11 Prospect 

 – The Boy Scouts of America and Midnight Sun Council

   WELCOME girls into Scouts! 

 – Outpost Alaska and North American Honda donated a total

   of nine 4-wheelers to the Boy Scouts!!
 
 –Midnight Sun Council Statement on LDS Changes
 
 – Lost Lake Land Conveyance 
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Volunteer of the month

JAMIE BANASZEWSKI

 Jamie Banaszewski volunteer month

Jamie Banaszewski is an amazing volunteer in her work life as well as in other things that need her. She volunteers to be the female Scoutmaster for Troop 38 when we would not have had another person be able to do it full time. In her work life she constantly stays behind the close, even if it’s not her building that needs to be closed. She puts others’ needs before her own and this makes her a caring and amazing person. With the troop she volunteers at almost all the events or volunteer events. She volunteers herself whereever she’s needed even if she doesn’t want too.

      

Thanks for all that you do, Jamie! 

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MSC Online Merit Badge Classes

Our Tanana Valley District Committee is continuing to host Virtual Merit Badge Classes for our Midnight Sun Council Scouts!

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These classes are taking place regularly each Monday evening at 7 pm.

Please contact your Scoutmaster or the Council office at 907-452-1976 for the meeting login information.

For these sessions, please direct your Scouts to be in a room in the house with other adults within earshot, or to invite a parent/guardian to sit in for the class.

The Zoom link will become active at 6:50 pm.

Topic: MSC Virtual Merit Badge Sessions 

New Dates will be announced soon!

 

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BSA Online Applications Access Extended

 

To help ensure units have full access to BSA online systems while charters continue to be processed, we have extended the grace period for units to continue accessing online systems for an additional 60 days. This includes Scoutbook, Internet Advancement, my.Scouting tools, and Den Leader Experience. This extension will be available for all recharter dates. This additional 60 days does not extend your charter expire date. Instead, it provides continued access to tools and resources. 
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Venturing

Are you looking for
your next Scouting
Adventure?

Midnight Sun Council
now has a Venturing
Crew!

There will be a Venturing Crew Informational
Meeting on Friday, September 20th at the
Scout Office starting at 6 pm

Contact Crew Advisor Matt Cooper for more information.

Click here or on image to view/download flyer.

Updates to Venturing Awards and Ranks

 

The National Venturing Committee is pleased to announce that, effective immediately, the Venturing, Discovery, Pathfinder, and Summit awards will be referred to as Venturing ranks to improve consistency among the different programs within Scouting. The Quest, Ranger, and Trust Awards will remain as part of the Venturing program as specialty awards and are not considered Venturing ranks.
Additionally, certain restrictions regarding prior credit for Venturers have been changed. Effective immediately, Venturing Advisors have the discretion to give a Venturer credit toward Venturing rank and award requirements for work previously completed by the Venturer while a registered member of a Scouts BSA Troop or a Sea Scout Ship. As explained in more detail below, this change aligns the Venturing advancement program with the Scouts BSA and Sea Scouting advancement programs.
Under the current edition of the Guide to Advancement and the latest printed edition of Venturing Awards and Requirements, a Venturer was required to complete all work on Venturing awards while registered as a Venturer, and Venturing Advisors were not permitted to give credit toward Venturing award requirements for work previously done by a youth in Scouts BSA or Sea Scouts. Neither Scouts BSA nor Sea Scouts have these same restrictions. Except as stated in the temporary transition rules covering first-time members entering Scouts BSA after February 1, 2019, in both Scouts BSA and Sea Scouts, unit leaders are currently able to consider work done in any program when giving credit toward completion of rank or award requirements. To improve consistency within the three programs and to encourage membership in Venturing Crews, Venturers may now receive credit toward Venturing ranks and specialty awards for work completed while registered in a Scouts BSA Troop or a Sea Scout Ship.
The next editions of the Guide to Advancement, Handbook for Venturers and Venturing Awards and Requirements will be revised to reflect the two changes to the Venturing advancement program described in this update.
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Fall Recruitment Strategies

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 The bottom line is to keep Scouts active, in person or virtually. Please follow these links for some virtual recruitment ideas: 

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Cub Scout Recruitment Idea Book

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Use This Virtual Rally Plan to Recruit Scouts During COVID-19

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Using Tools Like Geofencing and Nextdoor Events to Promote Scouting