Venturing Silver Award Requriements (Part II)
Craig Bond (craig00@nternet.com)
Sun Sep 13 12:13:12 1998
Venturing Silver Award
REQUIREMENTS
1. Earn at least one of the five Venturing Bronze Awards.
2. Earn the Venturing Gold Award.
3. EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS
Introduction
Being prepared has always been one of the key tenets of Scouting. Being
prepared continues to be important for today's action-oriented,
can-do-anything Venturers. Venturers must be prepared to take care of
themselves as well as be ready to serve others when called. When faced
with an emergency situation, people react in various ways. Some people
leave, some panic, some do nothing at all, and some respond. Venturers
should be prepared to respond.
Requirements.
(a) Become certified in Standard First Aid or equivalent course. If you
choose the American Red Cross Standard First Aid version of the course, the
curriculum includes how to recognize an emergency and overcome the
reluctance to react; how to recognize and care for breathing and cardiac
emergencies in adults (training to care for infants and children is
optional; and how to identify and care for life-threatening bleeding,
sudden illness, and injury. The course is approximately 6 1/2 hours. Your
Standard First Aid certification will expire three years from the date of
issue. Your CPR certification will expire one year from the date of issue.
If you hold an unexpired certification in this or a higher course, you
can receive credit for this requirement. However, you must be currently
certified at the time of your Silver Award crew review. You are encouraged
to get certified as soon as possible and stay certified. For this
requirement, you are not required to seek a higher certification, but you
are encouraged to get certifications in higher-level course such as First
Aid -- Responding to Emergencies or Emergency Response. You will be even
more prepared.
[Note: If you need help finding an American Red Cross instructor in your
area, call your local Red Cross chapter. For literature, call toll-free
1-800-667-2968).
(b) Become certified in CPR. You can take a stand-alone CPR course or
take it as part of another course such as Standard First Aid. Please
remember that CPR certification lasts for only one year, at which time you
will need a refresher course. Like Standard First Aid,. it is good to
always be current in your CPR certification. You most likely will get an
opportunity to use your skill in saving a life.
(c) Complete the BSA Safe Swim Defense training course. In this course,
you will learn how each of the eight points of the Safe Swim program
affects safe crew swimming activities. You will learn that qualified
supervision and discipline are the two most important points, upon which
the other points rely. You will also learn how to set up a safe swim area.
Any BSA aquatics resource person, your crew Advisors, or other
council-authorized individual can provide the training course for you. Use
Safe Swim Defense, No. 34370, and Safe Swim Defense Training Outline, No.
19-417.
(d) Either lead or participate in a group swim using BSA Safe Swim
Defense. Swimming can be a great way for you and your crew members to stay
fit and to just have fun. To ensure that you and your friends will
continue to do just that, always insist you use Safe Swim Defense.
4. Leadership
Introduction
Leadership is a cornerstone of the Venturing Silver Award. As you work on
the Silver Award, you will experience many new things, learn many new
skills, and learn to serve others. But to effectively take advantage of
all those newly-learned skills and experiences, you must know how to
effectively lead. It is true that some people are born with some natural
leadership ability, but the best leaders develop leadership sills and
continue to expand and hone these skills throughout their lives.
We all get the opportunity to be followers and leaders. It takes skill
to be a good follower, too, but in this section, you will concentrate on
developing leadership skills and implementing those skills as a leader.
Requirements
(a) Successfully complete the Venturing Leadership Skills Course.
(b) Successfully serve for at least six months in an elected or appointed
crew, district, or council leadership position. Since leadership is a form
of service to others, don't be afraid to ask your followers, those you
serve, how you are doing. If you don't have an occasional assessment of
your progress, you might not improve. Learn to value the opinion of
others. This must be in addition to the leadership requirement in the
Venturing Gold Award.
5. Ethics in Action
Introduction
Another cornertstone of the Venturing Silver Award is learning through
experience. While you are working on your Venturing Silver Award
requirements, you will have many experiences. You will enjoy experiences
that let you interact with your peers, learn decision-making skills,
evaluate and reflect so that you can learn from your successes and
failures, and discuss conflicting values and form your own value system.
Experience can be a powerful learning tool!
Requirements
(a) Participate in at least two Ethical Controversies, No. 99-223,
activities. These activities are scenarios with you into challenging,
problem-solving situations. In a constructive way, these activities will
help you develop the following personal skills:
1) Promoting productive conflict resolutiono
2) Polite disagreement
3) Listening to new ideas
4) Understanding other people's perspectives
5) Working toward a solution that the group involved will support and
implement
(b) Either organize and lead, or help to organize and lead, an Ethics
Forum for your crew, another crew, school class, or other youth group. An
Ethics Forum is simply another, more formal, way of gathering information
about ethics. You will invote two or more adults to form a panel for your
crew or group to ask questions abouot ehtics in their personal or
professional lives. you can even invite adults related to your crew's
specialty; if you are in a sports crew, you could invite a sports doctor, a
coach, and a professional athlete. You can even invite guests such as
family members and friends to join you. You can even use the information
gathered from the Ethics Forum to develop your own Ethical Controversies
activities.
6. Silver Award Review
After completing all requirements, the candidate should prepare evidence of
completion of work. It should be submitted to your crew Advisor along with
the completed and personally signed Silver Award Progress Award and
Application. The crew president, in conjunction with the crew Advisor,
should then appoint a review committee of four to six people including
Ventgurers and adults. The review committee should review the candidate's
written documentation and interview the candidate to determine whether the
candidate complete all work and grew as a result of the pursuit of the
Silver Award. The application is then approved by the crew Advisor and
crew committee chairman and submitted to your council service center.
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Above information copied from _Silver Award Guidebook_ (25-015), 1998
printing.
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Devices, ribbons, etc., for uniform and civilian are not well-described in
this book and a new Insignia Control Guide or a flyer or poster with this
information were not included in the information I retrieved. The
Venturing Silver Award itself is pictured: it has a silver bar with the
word Venturing debossed and from this is suspended a white ribbon with two
thin green vertical stripes, from which by a silver ring is suspended a
silver circle on whose outside is printed "Silver Award", with the BSA logo
at the top of the outside circle. In the center of the circle is another
circle, divided equally into three horizontal stripes, blue, white and red
(top to bottom), and over all of these circles is a flying eagle, wings high.
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My apologies for any misspellings. I've tried to pick them up, typos too,
but do not guarantee the above to be free of these or other errors.
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Craig Bond
Mandeville, Louisiana
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