Former Youth Protection Director on the dangers in Scouts BSA

[elitts]

14 hours ago, MYCVAStory said:

Don't know if you saw the last TCC Town Hall.  Kennedy took the online YPT training and besides it saying that 25% of abuse is youth-on-youth, when the former head of Youth Protection who has seen the reports says it's actually 50%, he was allowed to take the test and get his YPT certificate without completing an entire module on bullying.  I'm just tired of shaking my head over the constant breakdowns in youth protection.  "$h*t happens" isn't good enough when it comes to the safety of the nation's youth.

Personally, I don't think bullying should be included with the CSA training anyway.  If you give people two different areas to think about, they'll default to thinking the most about the one they view as "most likely" or most common and give much less attention to the other one. 

[malraux]

6 minutes ago, elitts said:

Personally, I don't think bullying should be included with the CSA training anyway.  If you give people two different areas to think about, they'll default to thinking the most about the one they view as "most likely" or most common and give much less attention to the other one. 

Bullying and youth on youth abuse are very interrelated though. 

[ThenNow]

Interested to hear if he had any history.

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Edited October 23, 2021 by ThenNow