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  • 1.  Youth Protection training/certification for staff & volunteers?

    Posted 05-21-2025 04:30 PM

    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



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    Ami Eckard-Lee
    Kelch Aviation Museum
    Brodhead WI
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  • 2.  RE: Youth Protection training/certification for staff & volunteers?

    Posted 05-22-2025 08:45 AM

    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



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    DIANE GUTENKAUF
    Senior Assistant Director, Operations & Strategy

    University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
    College of Fine and Applied Arts
    Krannert Art Museum
    500 East Peabody Drive | M/C 592
    Champaign, IL 61820
    217-333-3437 | dianeg3@illinois.edu
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  • 3.  RE: Youth Protection training/certification for staff & volunteers?

    Posted 06-13-2025 04:32 PM

    Hello Diane,

    Thank you so much for sharing this resource! I will check it out.

    - Ami



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    Ami Eckard-Lee
    Kelch Aviation Museum
    Brodhead WI
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  • 4.  RE: Youth Protection training/certification for staff & volunteers?

    Posted 05-22-2025 09:03 AM

    The BSA Youth Protection training is excellent and should be enough if you don't have your own museum-specific training class. You might also contact your local Master Gardeners chapter – here in Virginia we're required to take a Youth Protection training which is available through the Cooperative Extension, so there may be such a training available to you as well.

    Jay

     

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    Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation  -  P.O. Box 1607 -  Williamsburg, VA 23187
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  • 5.  RE: Youth Protection training/certification for staff & volunteers?

    Posted 06-13-2025 04:34 PM

    Hello Jay,

    Thank you for your input. As a small organization, I think the BSA training might be our best option, but I will check out the Masters Gardener's resources as well, thank you!

    -Ami



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    Ami Eckard-Lee
    Kelch Aviation Museum
    Brodhead WI
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  • 6.  RE: Youth Protection training/certification for staff & volunteers?

    Posted 05-22-2025 12:46 PM

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



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    Melanie Collins
    Director of Human Resources, Talent & Culture
    International African American Museum
    Charleston SC
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  • 7.  RE: Youth Protection training/certification for staff & volunteers?

    Posted 06-13-2025 04:35 PM

    Hello Melanie,

    This is exactly the kind of larger resource I was hoping to find, so thank you for suggesting it. Though we may not use it a this time, I have saved it for future reference as our organization grows. Thank you so much!

    -Ami



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    Ami Eckard-Lee
    Kelch Aviation Museum
    Brodhead WI
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