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| News - Shining Light Across America |
Posted Jun. 29, 2010 |
 Join Connecticut Yankee Council Scouts & family for an awe-inspiring Centennial Celebration show complete with food, friends, and lots of fun!
Bring your family and friends to the Connecticut Sports Center. Come early to enjoy unlimited activities followed by the historic nationwide “Shining Light” broadcast of the National Scout Jamboree Centennial Celebration Show!
“A Shining Light Across America”
SATURDAY, JULY 31, 2010
4 – 7:30 p.m. Activities, 7:30 - 10 p.m. Show
Connecticut Sports Center, 784 River Road (Rte 110), Shelton, CT |
| News - Important Changes to Youth Protection |
Posted Jun. 14, 2010 |
 Youth safety is the No. 1 concern of the BSA. To increase awareness of this societal problem and to create even greater barriers to abuse than already exist today in Scouting, the Boy Scouts of America is implementing several important changes to further enhance its Youth Protection policies.
Effective June 1, 2010: Youth Protection Training is REQUIRED for all registered volunteers.
New leaders are required to take Youth Protection Training BEFORE they submit their application for registration. The certificate of completion for this training MUST be submitted at the time application is made and before volunteer service with youth begins.
Further, Youth Protection Training must be completed every two years. If a volunteer's Youth Protection Training record is not current at the time of recharter, the volunteer will not be reregistered.
Please contact your district executive with any questions.
Thank you for all you do to make a difference in the lives of our young people. |
| News - Earn Money for Your Unit |
Posted Jun. 21, 2010 |
 Earn money for your unit while saving money on your electric bill. Connecticut Yankee Council has teamed up with Starion Energy to reduce family and friends' electric bill. Just complete the attached form or go to starionenergy.com/cycbsa/ and your unit earns $2.50 for each enrollment plus a percentage of their electric bill each month. Payments automically deposited to your unit account. |
| News - 2010 Popcorn Sale |
Posted May. 11, 2010 |
 Popcorn is a…
WIN-WIN-WIN!
It supports all 3 levels of our Scouting program:
• Income to the Council to serve our Packs and Troops.
• Money for Packs and Troops to carry out their activities
• Savings to Scout families
No other fundraiser supports the entire Council.
When you sell popcorn you're helping disadvantaged kids attend camp, helping
pay for needed camp equipment and helping you Unit do activities you want to
do at a reduced cost to parents.
Support the entire program in 2010. Sell popcorn!!
• Boys learn teamwork, goal-setting and grow in confidence.
• Your Pack and Troop adventures will multiply.
• Scouts will be able to do more, and advance farther in Scouting.
Why Trail's End® Popcorn for your fundraiser?
Trail's End Popcorn products are the highest quality. 2 out of 3 consumers will buy Trail's End if asked. Trail's End provides the highest profit to Scouting! Trail's End has been sold by Scouts for more than 25 years, and Trail's End is EXCLUSIVE to Scouting. No other group can sell it. Scouts can earn fantastic prizes selling Trail's End. They can even earn scholarship money for college!
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| News - Certificates of Insurance |
Posted Mar. 19, 2010 |
Certificates of insurance are an important part of program planning. When planning for any activity, more times than not a certificate of insurance may be required. Certificates of insurance are used to show proof that the unit has insurance coverage for that particular activity or event. Requests for proof of insurance come in many different forms. Many facilities will have their insurance requirements on a hold-harmless and indemnification agreement, facility-use agreement, contract, or other form.
All requests for a certificate of insurance must be taken seriously. Generally, certificates of insurance are a way to transfer risk from one party to another. In the case of unit activities, the property or facility owner is transferring liability to the unit, local council, and National Council. Facility-use agreements and/or contracts should be thoroughly reviewed by your council so responsibility and liability are not transferred unnecessarily to your council or the BSA.
This holds true especially when the other party wants to be named as an additional insured. “Additional insured” means that the property or facility owners are requesting to be “an insured,” or attached to the BSA commercial general liability policy. If the risks and liabilities are placed on the unit when some or all should remain with the property or facility owner, a certificate of insurance should not be issued unless it has the appropriate language. If an individual or organization is providing a service to the council or unit for a salary, fee, or price (profit), then that activity is business in nature, and the individual or organization should carry its own insurance.
When a Scouting unit is doing something to benefit a city, county, municipality, private or nonprofit organizations etc., such as “Adopt a Highway” or some other cleanup project, the beneficiary of the unit’s Good Turn should not ask for insurance protection or ask that a hold-harmless agreement be signed. The same is true for Eagle Scout leadership service projects. The beneficiary of the project should not be provided coverage through the BSA insurance program. Certificates of insurance can be provided only as proof of insurance coverage.
When a unit leader is planning an activity or program, the leader should submit requests for a certificate of insurance to the local council in a timely manner, along with the written insurance requirements of the property or facility owner. Local councils are authorized to issue certificates up to $1 million to those entities wanting additional insured status.
To request a certificate of insurance please contact Cindy Pepe at the Council Resource Center at 203-876-6868 x. 231. Please have the name and address of the organization that is requesting the certificate, the dates the activity is taking place and a brief description of what activities are taking place. Please allow two weeks for certificates to be issued.
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| News - Tour Permits and You |
Posted Mar. 19, 2010 |
Units within the Connecticut Yankee Council need to complete a Tour Permit when the following conditions are met:
1) Attending an event not run by the Council or your district;
2) Attending an event outside the local area (local area is a 15-mile radius from where your unit meets)
3) When the unit is participating in a high risk activity that requires special certification to run (ie: swimming, boating, climbing, rappelling, flying, and/or shooting)
It is important the your Tour Permit be filed two weeks in advance of your trip to ensure that it is approved. You can email, fax, mail, complete online through MyScouting, or bring your Tour Permit to the Council Resource Center. Sending your tour permit in the day of departure is risky; it does not afford enough time to correct errors and may result in your drip being delayed to to an unapproved tour permit.
Note concerning required training: BALOO and Hazardous Weather Training are only necessary when participating in a unit sponsored outdoor overnight camping trip. It is not required when attending a Council or District sponsored Camporee or indoor activity such as the Mystic Overnight or Boston Museum of Science. CPR Training is only required for climbing, boating or swimming activities.
If your unit is attending an event more than 500 miles from your meeting location a National Tour Permit must be filed at least 30 days in advance. |
| News - Cub Scout Day Camp - Open Enrollment |
Posted Feb. 24, 2010 |
 The world of mystery and magic, castles and dragons, magic and FUN await for Cub Scouts attending the 2010 Cub Scout Day Camp program. All Cub Scouts are invited to come and learn the games, traditions, crafts and sports found in medeval times at the 2010 Cub Scout Day Camp!
Cub Scouts can participate in many types of activities including water activities, archery, field sports, nature, arts and crafts, Scout skills, and a variety of other events. All areas (especially archery and water activities) place a special emphasis on safety procedures. Each week also has a Family Day complete with awards and a campfire or ceremony in the afternoon. It’s a fun-filled week of challenging Cub Scout activities, exciting adventures and new friendships. Camp is open to all Cub Scouts who will be in first thru fifth grades as of September 2010. |
| News - Life to Eagle E-Packets |
Posted Feb. 24, 2010 |
 The Life to Eagle Packet, Eagle Application and Eagle workbooks have been updated numerous times over the last year. Further, when the packet is mailed to a Scout when they obtain their Life rank, there are often changes in the document made prior to the point when the Scout begins working with the packet. This has resulted in numerous versions of these documents being used as a Scout works through the process.
In an effort to ensure that the most recent version of the Life to Eagle documents are used by the Scout when he is ready to begin the process the Life to Eagle Packet will no longer be mailed from the Council Resource Center. Troop leadership should direct their new Life Scouts to the Council website where they can download the most recent version of the packet. Not only will this ensure the most recent version is used but will also enable the Scout to work with the document electronically. |
| News - Official BSA YouTube Channel |
Posted Feb. 4, 2010 |
 The Boy Scouts of America is now officially on YouTube! It's a great way for the BSA to share video content with the world and engage visitors who may want to join, give, volunteer or find out more about Scouting. To find BSA's official YouTube channel, and other YouTube channels managed by BSA, look for the Follow links located on each and every page of Scouting.org and click YouTube. You can also access the channel through the link below. |
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