Bsa Youth Member Application (Page 2 of 6) in pdf

BOYS’ LIFE MAGAZINE

Welcome to the BSA!

The BSA makes Scouting available to our nation’s youth by chartering community organizations to operate Cub

Scout packs, Boy Scout troops, Venturing crews, and Sea Scout ships.

For a subscription to a great magazine that will help

The chartered organization provides an adequate and safe meeting place as well as capable adult leadership, and

your child grow in the Scouting program, just fill in

requires adherence to the principles and policies of the BSA. The BSA local and national council provide training,

the Boys’ Life circle on the application and pay the

program, outdoor facilities, literature, professional guidance, and liability insurance protection.

subscription price.

Your Role in Scouting

Scouting uses a fun program to promote character development, citizenship, leadership, and personal fitness.

You can help by encouraging attendance, assisting with your child’s advancement, attending meetings for parents,

and assisting the unit when called upon to help. The unit cannot provide a quality program without your help.

Parent Agreement

I have read the Scout Oath and Scout Law, and I want my child to join

Youth Protection Begins With You™.

Child abuse is a serious problem in our society, and unfortunately, it

Scouting. I will assist them in abiding by the policies of the BSA and the chartered organization. I will:

can occur anywhere, even in Scouting. Youth safety is of paramount importance to Scouting. For that reason, the BSA

• Serve as an adult partner while my child is a Lion or Tiger.

continues to create and consistently improve its barriers to abuse.

• Help my Scout grow through completion of advancements.

• Help the unit with activities and assist as needed.

The BSA is committed to providing a safe environment for young people. To maintain a safe environment, the BSA

provides parents and adult leaders with numerous online and printed resources and adult leaders must complete

Joining Requirements

Youth Protection Training (YPT) and renew their training as required. Parents who participate in Scouting activities are

highly recommended to complete YPT.

Cub Scout Pack

All persons involved in Scouting must immediately report to local authorities any good-faith suspicion or belief that

any child is or has been physically or sexually abused, physically or emotionally neglected, exposed to any form of

Pack membership is open to youth in kindergarten through fifth grade.

violence or threat, exposed to any form of sexual exploitation including the possession, manufacture, or distribution

Bear—Third grade

*Lion—Year before first grade

of child pornography; online solicitation; enticement; or showing of obscene material. No person may abdicate this

reporting responsibility to any other person.

Webelos Scout—Fourth and fifth grade

*Tiger—First grade

Wolf—Second grade

Additionally, any Scouting-related abuse or serious Youth Protection policy violation must also be reported to the local

Scout executive or the Scouts 1st helpline (844-Scouts1 or 844-726-8871).

*Lions and Tigers must have an adult partner. If the parent is not serving as the adult partner,

the parental signature on the application indicates their approval of the adult partner. In addition,

All parents must review the How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide booklet in the

Cub Scout or Boy Scout handbook or at

if the adult partner does not live at the same address as the Lion or Tiger, an adult application

is required.

Youth Protection Policies

Boy Scout Troop

• Two registered adults or one registered adult and a parent, one of whom must be 21 years of age or older, are

Children can be Scouts if they have completed the fifth grade and are at least 10 years old, OR have earned the

required on all trips and outings. If trips and outings are coeducational, adults of both genders must be present.

Arrow of Light Award and are at least 10 years old, OR are age 11 but have not reached age 18.

Venturing requires both adults to be age 21 or older.

Venturing Crew/Sea Scout Ship

• One-on-one contact between youth members and adults is never permitted. Even personal Scout conferences

must be conducted in plain view of others.

Venturing and Sea Scouting are for young men and women at least 13 years old who have completed

• Corporal punishment, hazing, and bullying are not permitted in Scouting. Only constructive discipline is

the eighth grade, or youth age 14 and not yet 21. Applicants age 18 and older must complete a BSA

acceptable. Parents and unit leaders must work together to solve discipline problems.

adult application.

• Separate accommodations for adults and Scouts on trips and outings are required.

• Privacy of youth is respected.

Venturers and Sea Scouts registered in a crew or ship prior to their 21st birthday may continue as members

after their 21st birthday until the crew or ship renews its charter or until they reach their 22nd birthday, which-

• Units are responsible to enforce Youth Protection policies.

ever comes first.

Excerpt from the Declaration of Religious Principle

The annual national registration fee is nonrefundable.

The BSA maintains that no member can grow into the best kind of citizen without recognizing an obligation to God

and, therefore, recognizes the religious element in the training of the member, but is absolutely nonsectarian in its

Health Information. You should inform your unit leader of any condition that might limit your child’s participa-

attitude toward that religious training. Its policy is that the home and the organization or group with which the

tion. Please fill out the Annual Health and Medical Record, No. 680-001, found on and

member is connected shall give definite attention to religious life. Only persons willing to subscribe to this

give it to the unit leader.

Declaration of Religious Principle and to the Bylaws of the Boy Scouts of America shall be entitled to certificates

of membership.

Policy of Nondiscrimination

The BSA is open to all who meet the requirements. Scouting units are open to all youth without regard to race,

ethnic background, sexual orientation, or sexual identity and are based on individual merit.

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