The following resources may be used by parents and leaders in their efforts to protect youth. Several are available for purchase. Visit your local Scout shop or ScoutShop.org.
The Protect Yourself Rules Preview Adventure
The Boy Scouts of America is committed to creating safe environments for Scouts and leaders. Child abuse is an uncomfortable topic but an important one for us to cover to ensure the safety and well-being of our Scouts. The Boy Scouts of America has partnered with subject-matter experts from the Barbara Sinatra Children’s Center Foundation to present the “Protect Yourself Rules” that help children recognize, respond to, and report abuse.
Before starting work on this adventure, the den leader should review Scouting’s Barriers to Abuse since the Protect Yourself Rules adventure is intended to complement our many existing youth-protection measures.
The Protect Yourself Rules Preview Adventures may be used as an elective adventure OR they may be earned in place of the Cyber Chip requirement for the Tiger, Wolf, Bear, Webelos, and Arrow of Light badges of rank. If used in place of the Cyber Chip requirement for a rank, it may not be used as an elective adventure for that rank.
Click here to go to the Protect Yourself Rules Adventure.
How to Protect Your Children From Child Abuse: A Parent’s Guide
A booklet, included in the printed handbooks, providing tips to help parents talk with their sons about child abuse.
