Youth Safety Summit

Open to all Youth Service Organizations

Hosted by Mid-Iowa Council, Scouting America

November 9th 2024

Maytag Scout Center, Des Moines IA

Breakout Session One Options

• Engaging Youth with Autism
  • Sharing experiences by a mother and son going through the Scouting program; learn of barriers they encountered, changes they impacted, successes realized.

• Youth and Domestic Violence
  • How to identify, report and work with young people who are either exposed to or are victims of domestic violence

Breakout Session Two Options

• Suicide Prevention
  • Centered around identifying and preventing youth suicide in today’s society.

• Joining Conferences
  • Onboarding youth can be time consuming for volunteers.  Youth with visible or invisible disabilities can add additional challenges for a volunteer if a plan is not in place.  A Joining Conference is a strategy for onboarding new families designed to enable open conversation and reduce concerns of “what can I ask” and “how do I ask it”.

Breakout Session Three Options

• Online Youth Safety Bullying
  • How to protect young people from online bullying

• Male and Female Scouts
  • How to properly guide both male and female Scouts on how to work together and identify what is and isn’t appropriate behavior.

• Do’s and Don’ts of Advancement of youth with Special Needs
  • A “how to guide” for working with Scouts and their families with special needs as it relates to rank advancement withing Scouting America’s programs.

Breakout Session Four Options

• Welcoming & Serving Youth with Special Needs
  • Youth with special needs are less likely to participate in extracurricular activities than their peers.  Often doors to these opportunities can be challenging to open for youth and caregivers, learn how to be a welcoming organization through planning, relationships, family consultation, and meeting youth where they are.

• Traumatic Childhood Experiences
  • How to work with youth who’ve experienced trauma