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Hello fellow museum colleagues,

Our organization would like to implement a youth protection training and/or certification for our staff and volunteers, as we develop more youth educational programming and also accept minors into a special volunteering program. Do any of you have any recommendations for a youth protection training, especially for museum-specific policies?

Many of our staff have already completed such trainings from either the Boy Scouts and/or the Experimental Aviation Association; the Boy Scouts training is available free of charge to anyone, and since we are a small organization with limited funding, we talked about just using that. I was curious what other options might be suggested, however, and if anyone has any other information or resources on this topic.

Thank you for your recommendations!

Ami Eckard-Lee

Hi Ami

I've taken training offered by this group: https://www.praesidiuminc.com/prevention-tools/

Their website also offers some helpful tools and strategies. 

Regards

Hello fellow museum colleagues,

Our organization would like to implement a youth protection training and/or certification for our staff and volunteers, as we develop more youth educational programming and also accept minors into a special volunteering program. Do any of you have any recommendations for a youth protection training, especially for museum-specific policies?

Many of our staff have already completed such trainings from either the Boy Scouts and/or the Experimental Aviation Association; the Boy Scouts training is available free of charge to anyone, and since we are a small organization with limited funding, we talked about just using that. I was curious what other options might be suggested, however, and if anyone has any other information or resources on this topic.

Thank you for your recommendations!

Ami Eckard-Lee

Hello fellow museum colleagues,

Our organization would like to implement a youth protection training and/or certification for our staff and volunteers, as we develop more youth educational programming and also accept minors into a special volunteering program. Do any of you have any recommendations for a youth protection training, especially for museum-specific policies?

Many of our staff have already completed such trainings from either the Boy Scouts and/or the Experimental Aviation Association; the Boy Scouts training is available free of charge to anyone, and since we are a small organization with limited funding, we talked about just using that. I was curious what other options might be suggested, however, and if anyone has any other information or resources on this topic.

Thank you for your recommendations!

Ami Eckard-Lee

Hello fellow museum colleagues,

Our organization would like to implement a youth protection training and/or certification for our staff and volunteers, as we develop more youth educational programming and also accept minors into a special volunteering program. Do any of you have any recommendations for a youth protection training, especially for museum-specific policies?

Many of our staff have already completed such trainings from either the Boy Scouts and/or the Experimental Aviation Association; the Boy Scouts training is available free of charge to anyone, and since we are a small organization with limited funding, we talked about just using that. I was curious what other options might be suggested, however, and if anyone has any other information or resources on this topic.

Thank you for your recommendations!

Ami Eckard-Lee

Hello fellow museum colleagues,

Our organization would like to implement a youth protection training and/or certification for our staff and volunteers, as we develop more youth educational programming and also accept minors into a special volunteering program. Do any of you have any recommendations for a youth protection training, especially for museum-specific policies?

Many of our staff have already completed such trainings from either the Boy Scouts and/or the Experimental Aviation Association; the Boy Scouts training is available free of charge to anyone, and since we are a small organization with limited funding, we talked about just using that. I was curious what other options might be suggested, however, and if anyone has any other information or resources on this topic.

Thank you for your recommendations!

Ami Eckard-Lee

We use Darkness to Light's Stewardship of Children.  https://www.d2l.org/

Hello fellow museum colleagues,

Our organization would like to implement a youth protection training and/or certification for our staff and volunteers, as we develop more youth educational programming and also accept minors into a special volunteering program. Do any of you have any recommendations for a youth protection training, especially for museum-specific policies?

Many of our staff have already completed such trainings from either the Boy Scouts and/or the Experimental Aviation Association; the Boy Scouts training is available free of charge to anyone, and since we are a small organization with limited funding, we talked about just using that. I was curious what other options might be suggested, however, and if anyone has any other information or resources on this topic.

Thank you for your recommendations!

Ami Eckard-Lee