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Your First Step: Self-study Training  Grab a cup of coffee, make yourself comfortable, and click on the links below to start your BSA training.  1. Fast Start Training For Cub Scout leaders and parents: Cub Scout Fast Start For Boy Scout leaders and parents: Boy Scout Fast Start For Venture leaders and parents: Venturing Fast Start Remember to send your unit a message telling them the date you completed this training. Have leaders without internet access? Order the video tape (and other great training tapes) from the scout shop. Get the latest ordering info from www.scoutstuff.org --> "Literature" --> "Audiovisual Items" then submit an order to the TAC scout shop Initial Training for Chartered Organisation Representatives (good to know even if you're not a COR): Powerpoint presentation from a training workshop Syllabus from a training workshop 2. Youth Protection Training Youth Protection Training is essential to be a successful adult leader in the Boy Scouts of America. You do need to know our policies and procedures in dealing with youth in a positive manner. You will also learn our policies that create barriers to abuse, and what to do if faced with a situation where you suspect abuse is occuring in the Scouting program.  This course is linked to the National BSA website For all scouting leaders and parents: http://olc.scouting.org If you complete the course and do not receive confirmation (can happen depending on your firewall settings and pop-up blockers), please email The TAC Office. If you have a problem completing the course it may be that you do not have the latest version of Adobe. Please download the latest version and see if that fixes the problem. Here is a note from a TAC Scouter who had trouble with the screens for the test...."Thanks a lot for your quick help, I downloaded again the flash plug-in from adobe.com and it did the trick!" Youth Protection Training (in Spanish) 3. Guide to Safe Scouting Want to do things "by the book"? This is "the book". Read it, memorize it, sleep with a copy of it under your pillow. http://www.scouting.org/pubs/gss/ or order a printed copy (BSA Supply #34416F) from the TAC scout shop. 4. Information on Being a Chartered Organization Representative Each pack, troop, and crew are chartered by an organization, our chartered partners. There is an important individual that serves as a link between the scouting program and our chartered partners, the Chartered Organization Representative. This slide presentation provides an overview to the role and responsibility of the Chartered Organization Representative Chartered Organization Representative Training Chartered Organization Representative Training Syllabus 5. Info on the "Grey Areas of Scouting" Is that activity, skit, or joke appropriate? Check out this article on the "grey areas" of scouting. 6. Safe Swim Defense and Safety Afloat This National BSA course is now on-line and is a great way to prepare for that swimming outing or canoe trip. It even prints out a completion card for for you! http://olc.scouting.org 7. "Risk Zone" Training for Drivers Every volunteer who drives scouts to events should review this presentation to better understand and recognise the risks of driver fatigue, and how to prevent it. http://www.tac-bsa.org/riskzone.ppt 8. Lightning Safety When should you stop the fun and seek shelter? When is it OK to go back outside? This presentation could save your life! Share it with your unit! Powerpoint Presentation to teach outdoor lightning safety, 9. Scouting with Disabilities Suggestions and guidelines for dealing with hyperactive and/or disabled scouts, including how requirements can be modified according to the needs of the individual scout. TAC Scouting with Disabilities page 10. Understanding TroopMaster / PackMaster Software Scoutmasters, Cub Masters, and committee members: if your unit is using TroopMaster/ PackMaster Software, or considering using it, read through these excellent powerpoint presentations explaining how to use all the features of the software. http://www.troopmaster.com/powerpoint.html