Scouts

We had some great classes and information for the scouts at the fair. The stake kept a record of all the scouts who were present so you would know what your son passed off. Please contact Kathleen Beaty for that list. For questions about what was covered, please contact, David Pounders 480-323-5314.

Here is an outline of the classes and requirements discussed for each.

Badges Earned 

• Wolf Achievement 3: Keep Your Body Healthy 
• Wolf Elective 16 Requirements :  Family Alert 
• Bear Achievement 11 - Be Ready 
• Emergency Preparedness BSA Award- Tiger, Wolf, Bear, Webelo, Boy Scout, Varsity Scout 
• Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge 
• Webelo Readyman Badge 
• Wolf Achievement 9 - Be Safe at Home and on the Street 
• First Aid Merit Badge

At Home Requirements

Make a chart and keep track of your health habits for two weeks. - Wolf

Discuss a family emergency plan with the family. – Wolf/Tiger

Show and tell your family household what you have learned about preparing for emergencies. – Tiger/Wolf/Bear

Build a family emergency kit, with an adult family member participating in the project. – Bear/Webelo/Scout

Give a presentation to your den on preparing for emergencies. - Webelo

Meet with and teach your family how to get or build a kit, make a plan, and be informed for the situations on the chart you created for requirement. –Scout

Emergency First Aid – 10:00-10:45 

Tell four ways to stop the spread of colds.

Show what to do for a small cut on your finger.

Make a list of your first aid supplies, or make a first aid kit. Know where the first aid things are kept.

Take a nationally recognized first-aid course geared toward children such as American Red Cross First Aid for Children Today (FACT).

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.

Learn to survive extreme weather situations.

Show three ways of attracting and communicating with rescue planes/aircraft.

With another person, show a good way to transport an injured person out of a remote and/or rugged area, conserving the energy of rescuers while ensuring the well-being and protection of the injured person.

Talk with your family about what you will do in an emergency.

In case of a bad storm or flood, know where you can get safe food and water in your home. Tell how to purify water. Show one way. Know where and how to shut off water, electricity, gas, or oil.

Tell what to do in case of an accident in the home. A family member needs help. Someone’s clothes catch on fire.

Tell what to do in case of a water accident.

Tell what to do in case of a school bus accident.

Tell what to do in case of a car accident.  Complete the Character Connection for Courage.   o    Know. Memorize the courage steps: Be brave, Be calm, Be clear, and Be careful. Tell why each courage step is important. How will memorizing the courage steps help you to be ready?  o    Commit. Tell why it might be difficult to follow the courage steps in an emergency situation. Think of other times you can use the courage steps. (Standing up to a bully is one example.)  o    Practice. Act out one of the requirements using these courage steps: Be brave, Be calm, Be clear, and Be careful.

Emergency Response Drill – 11:00-11:45 

Prepare for emergency situations

Respond to emergency situations

Recover from emergency situations

Mitigate and prevent emergency situations

Understand of each of the aspects of emergency preparedness in requirement with regard to 10 of the situations listed below.

1. Home kitchen fire

2. Home basement/storage room/garage fire

3. Explosion in the home

4. Automobile crash

5. Food-borne disease (food poisoning)

6. Fire or explosion in a public place

7. Vehicle stalled in the desert

8. Vehicle trapped in a blizzard

9. Flash flooding in town or the country

10. Mountain/backcountry accident

11. Boating or water accident

12. Gas leak in a home or a building

13. Tornado or hurricane

14. Major flood

15. Nuclear power plant emergency

16. Avalanche (snowslide or rockslide)

17. Violence in a public place

Tell the things a group should be prepared to do, the training they need, and the safety precautions they should take for the following emergency services:

1. Crowd and traffic control

2. Messenger service and communication.

3. Collection and distribution services.

4. Group feeding, shelter, and sanitation.

Identify the government or community agencies that normally handle and prepare for emergency services and explain how to volunteer to help in the event of these types of emergencies.

Find out who is your community's emergency management director and learn what this person does to prepare, respond to, recover from, and mitigate and prevent emergency situations in your community.

Prepare a written plan for mobilizing when needed to do emergency service. If there is already a plan, explain it. Tell your part in making it work.

Take part in at least one mobilization. Before the exercise, describe your part. Afterward, conduct an "after-action" lesson, discussing what you learned during the exercise that required changes or adjustments to the plan.

Prepare a personal emergency service pack for a mobilization call. Prepare a family kit (suitcase or waterproof box) for use by your family in case an emergency evacuation is needed. Explain the needs and uses of the contents.

Kids Safety Training – 12:00-12:45 

• Join a safe kids program such as McGruff Child Identification, Internet Safety, or Safety at Home.  
• Create a checklist to keep your home safe.  
• Learn how to shut off utilities to your home in an emergency.  
• Learn about stranger awareness, Internet safety, or safety at home.  
• Show how you could safely save a person from the following:  

• Touching a live household electric wire.  
• A room filled with carbon monoxide  
• Clothes on fire.  
• Drowning, using non-swimming rescues (including accidents on ice).  

• Review or develop a plan of escape for your family in case of fire in your home.  
• Develop an accident prevention program for five family activities outside the home (such as taking a picnic or seeing a movie) that includes an analysis of possible hazards, a proposed plan to correct those hazards, and the reasons for the corrections you propose.  
• Internet Safety Guidelines