Safeguarding Youth training is required for all Scouting America registered volunteers and is a joining requirement. Safeguarding Youth training must now be taken every year. Here are some important things to know about Safeguarding Youth Training:
- Leaders must take the full 90 Minute course before you can take the refresher to get full SYT credit. If your SYT is expired for 7 days or more, you must take the full 90 minute course again. After you have taken the full course, you may take a refresher course every year.
- You must pass the refresher course quiz with at least 80% correct answers on your first attempt or you will be directed back to the full 90 minute course. A score of less than 80% requires that you re-take the full course.
- If you took the previous YPT course (before May 2025), you must take the full 90-minute SYT course. Taking the Refresher will not give you credit.
- Those who have not taken the new Safeguarding Youth Training (SYT) must take it before May 31, 2026. Not taking SYT will result in your suspension. The suspension will be lifted only after you have successfully completed SYT and submitted a certificate.
- When your Safeguarding Youth Training is complete, email your completion certificate to your district executive or the council registrar at jeanette.pickens@scouting.org.
The new 20-minute Safeguarding Youth (SYT) Refresher course is now live. The course is available on my.scouting.org in the Volunteer Learn Center. If you need help logging in, call the Wehrle Service Center at 304-340-3663.
If a volunteer’s Safeguarding Youth training is not current at the time of annual registration renewal, the volunteer will not be re-registered. In addition, if Safeguarding Youth training expires during a volunteer’s registration year and is not promptly renewed, that volunteer’s membership will be suspended until the training is renewed.
