Emergency Preparedness BSA Award

Emergency Preparedness BSA Award requirements

Individual Emergency Preparedness Award Requirements

Tiger Cub Requirements

1. Cover a family fire plan and drill, and what to do if separated from the family.
2. Discuss a family emergency plan with the family.
3. Create, plan, and practice summoning help during an emergency.
4. Working with a first aid instructor from the American Red Cross, Emergency Care and Safety Institute, or American Heart Association go over some basic first aid they feel is appropriate. Practice how to clean and bandage a cut to your finger and a scrape to your knee.
5. Join a safe kids program such as McGruff Child Identification, Internet Safety, or Safety at Home.
6. Show and tell your family household what you have learned about preparing for emergencies.

Wolf Cub Scout Requirements

1. Create a checklist to keep your home safe.
2. Discuss a family emergency plan with the family.
3. Create, plan, and practice summoning help during an emergency.
4. Learn emergency skills and care for choking, wounds, nosebleeds, falls, and animal bites. The emergency skills should include responses for fire safety, poisoning, water accidents, substance abuse, and more.
5. Join a safe kids program such as the McGruff Child Identification program. Put on a training program for your family or den on stranger awareness, Internet safety, or safety at home.
6. Make a presentation to your family on what you have learned about preparing for emergencies.

Bear Cub Scout Requirements

1. Create, plan, and practice summoning help during an emergency.
2. Learn how to shut off utilities to your home in an emergency.
3. Learn simple rescue techniques.
4. Learn emergency skills and care for choking, wounds, nosebleeds, falls, and animal bites. The emergency skills should include responses for fire safety, poisoning, water accidents, substance abuse, and more.
5. Put together a family emergency kit for use in the home.
6. Organize a safe kids program such as the McGruff Child Identification program. Put on a training program for your family or den on stranger awareness, Internet safety, or safety at home.
7. Make a small display or give a presentation for your family or den on what you have learned about preparing for emergencies.

Webelos Scout Requirements

1. Learn rescue techniques.
2. Build a family emergency kit, with an adult family member participating in the project.
3. Take a first-aid course.
4. Learn to survive extreme weather situations.
5. Learn about stranger awareness, Internet safety, or safety at home.
6. Give a presentation to your den on preparing for emergencies.

Scouts BSA Requirements

1. Participate in creating an emergency plan for your home and for your troop or team's^{[Note 2]} Scouting activities. Be sure you know the details of both emergency plans.
2. Earn the First Aid or Emergency Preparedness merit badge.
3. With your troop or team^{[Note 2]}, including its adult leaders, participate in emergency preparedness training conducted by community emergency preparedness agencies.
4. Complete IS-100.b (or later), Introduction to Incident Command System (see http://training.fema.gov/IS/NIMS.asp).^{[Note 3]}

Venturer or Sea Scout Requirements

1. Complete a nationally recognized first-aid course or complete a nationally recognized Wilderness First Aid course.
2. With your crew, including its adult leaders, participate in emergency preparedness training coordinated by community emergency preparedness agencies.
3. Complete IS-100.b (or later), Introduction to Incident Command System (see http://training.fema.gov/IS/NIMS.asp).^{[Note 3]}
4. Plan and execute an emergency preparedness training event for a pack, troop or team.^{[Note 2]}

Unit Volunteer Scouter Requirements

This award is available to all registered Scouters who serve a unit, including all leaders and committee members. Do any three of the following:

1. Provide input to develop or improve an emergency preparedness program plan and kit for your home and be sure all family members know the plan.
2. Participate actively in preparing an emergency action plan for your Scouting unit meeting place. (This includes all locations where you might have a meeting.)
3. Put together a unit emergency kit to be kept at your unit meeting location. (This includes all locations where you might have a meeting.)
4. Take a basic first-aid/CPR/AED course.
5. Participate as an active volunteer in a community agency responsible for disaster preparedness.
6. Complete IS-100.b (or later), Introduction to Incident Command System (see http://training.fema.gov/IS/NIMS.asp).^{[Note 3]}

Council/District Volunteer Scouter Requirements

Do any three of the following:

1. Provide input to develop or improve an emergency preparedness program plan and kit for your council or district.
2. Take a basic first-aid/CPR/AED course.
3. Participate as an active volunteer in a community agency responsible for emergency disaster preparedness.
4. Participate actively in developing an emergency preparedness program for a council or district activity such as a camporee or Scouting show.
5. Complete IS-100.b, Introduction to Incident Command System (see http://training.fema.gov/IS/NIMS.asp).^{[Note 3]}

District-, Council-, and Unit-Level Achievement

District- and Council-Level Achievement

Bronze Level: If completed three of the above and if 30 percent of your traditional units have achieved the award.

Silver Level: If completed three of the above and if 40 percent of your traditional units have achieved the award.

Gold Level: If completed three of the above and if 50 percent of your traditional units have achieved the award.

Unit-Level Achievement

Achieve the mandatory requirements below, and

Bronze Level: If 30 percent of your youth and adult members have achieved the award.

Silver Level: If 40 percent of your youth and adult members have achieved the award.

Gold Level: If 50 percent of your youth and adult members have achieved the award.

Mandatory Unit Requirements

• The unit members conduct a check or create a unit and personal first-aid kit.
• The unit members conduct a safety check of their meeting place using the checklist in the Guide to Safe Scouting.
• The Cubmaster, Scoutmaster, Coach, or Advisor and the assistant Cubmasters, Scoutmasters, Coaches, or Advisors, and the unit committee chair have in their possession and have read the most current Guide to Safe Scouting.
• The unit members create an emergency action plan for unit use during regular meetings, tours, and activities. See http://www.scouting.org/filestore/doc/680-029.doc .
• Greater than 40 percent of registered adults are trained in Safety Afloat and Safe Swim Defense.
• Greater than 40 percent of registered members, including at least one adult, are trained in first aid and CPR/AED by a recognized agency such as the Emergency Care and Safety Institute, the American Red Cross, or the American Heart Association.
• Greater than 40 percent of unit members completed the SCOUTStrong fitness program or earned the Quest Award.
• Mandatory for troops and teams only:^{[Note 2]} All youth members with a driving permit or driver’s license have earned the Traffic Safety merit badge.
• Mandatory for troops and teams only:^{[Note 2]} Greater than 40 percent of registered Scouts have earned the First Aid merit badge and are certified in CPR/Wilderness First Aid.
• Mandatory for Venturing crews only: All youth with a driving permit or driver’s license have taken Venturing Out: Keys to Safe Driving online or attended a group presentation of the Risk Zone: Transporting Scouts Safely . Smart Choices: driving, drugs, and alcohol is a presentation discussing the dangers of drinking and Driving. Download the presentation: here . The speaker’s notes can be printed from the presentation, or may be downloaded separately as a PDF .
• The unit conducts a safety promotion with the community about emergency preparedness and/or readiness.
• Identify a unit’s risk management or health and safety officer. Attach a copy of the duties and responsibilities assigned to this position to the application.

• Mandatory for Venturing crews only: Greater than 40 percent of registered crew members are trained in CPR/AED by a nationally recognized agency such as the Emergency Care and Safety Institute, the American Red Cross, or the American Heart Association.
• Mandatory for troops/ships/crews only: Greater than 40 percent of registered Scouts and adults have completed IS-100.b, Introduction to Incident Command System (see http://training.fema.gov/IS/NIMS.asp).^{[Note 3]}

Do one of the following :

• The unit conducts a safety promotion with the community about emergency preparedness and/or readiness.
• Identify a unit’s risk management or health and safety officer. Attach a copy of the duties and responsibilities assigned to this position to the application.

Footnotes

1. ↑ Before the program was discontinued, youth in the Varsity Scouting program were eligible to earn this award using the same requirements as for Boy Scouts/Scouts BSA.
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4} Editor's note: effective December 31, 2017, the Boy Scouts of America ended the Varsity Scouting program.
3. ↑ ^{3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4} As of February 2019, the current IS-100 course is IS-100.c

• All registered youth and adults awards: Emergency Preparedness BSA Award
• Scouts BSA merit badges: Backpacking • Camping • Canoeing • Climbing • Cooking • Crime Prevention • Cycling • Dentistry • Electricity • Emergency Preparedness • Fire Safety • First Aid • Hiking • Home Repairs • Kayaking • Lifesaving • Medicine • Motorboating • Nature • Orienteering • Pioneering • Public Health • Radio • Rowing • Safety • Search and Rescue • Signs, Signals, and Codes • Small-Boat Sailing • Snow Sports • Swimming • Traffic Safety • Water Sports • Weather • Wilderness Survival
• Webelos: Webelos Adventure: First Responder • Webelos-AoL Elective Adventure: Castaway
• Venturing: Ranger Award-Emergency Preparedness Requirement
• Unit awards: BSA Ready & Prepared Award
• Skills: Emergency Kit • First-Aid Kit • First-Aid Skills • Safe Swim Defense • Safety Afloat • Guide to Safe Scouting