This award is available to all registered Scouters who serve a unit, including all leaders and committee members. Plan and execute an emergency preparedness training event for a pack, troop or team.With your crew, including its adult leaders, participate in emergency preparedness training coordinated by community emergency preparedness agencies.Complete a nationally recognized first-aid course or complete a nationally recognized Wilderness First Aid course.Complete IS-100.b, Introduction to Incident Command System (see ).With your troop or team, including its adult leaders, participate in emergency preparedness training conducted by community emergency preparedness agencies.Earn the First Aid or Emergency Preparedness merit badge.Be sure you know the details of both emergency plans. Participate in creating an emergency plan for your home and for your troop or team's Scouting activities.Give a presentation to your den on preparing for emergencies.Learn about stranger awareness, Internet safety, or safety at home.Learn to survive extreme weather situations.Build a family emergency kit, with an adult family member participating in the project.Make a small display or give a presentation for your family or den on what you have learned about preparing for emergencies.Put on a training program for your family or den on stranger awareness, Internet safety, or safety at home. Organize a safe kids program such as the McGruff Child Identification program.Put together a family emergency kit for use in the home.
#EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS MERIT BADGE PRESENTATION HOW TO#
Learn how to shut off utilities to your home in an emergency.Make a presentation to your family on what you have learned about preparing for emergencies.Join a safe kids program such as the McGruff Child Identification program.The emergency skills should include responses for fire safety, poisoning, water accidents, substance abuse, and more. Learn emergency skills and care for choking, wounds, nosebleeds, falls, and animal bites.Create a checklist to keep your home safe.Show and tell your family household what you have learned about preparing for emergencies.Join a safe kids program such as McGruff Child Identification, Internet Safety, or Safety at Home.Take a nationally recognized first-aid course geared toward children such as American Red Cross First Aid for Children Today (FACT).Create, plan, and practice summoning help during an emergency.Discuss a family emergency plan with the family.Cover a family fire plan and drill, and what to do if separated from the family.Units should participate only under the supervision of their own leaders, and plans for unit help must be coordinated with community agencies responsible for disaster preparedness. The award may be earned more than once for instance, as a young person advances through the ranks and is capable of more complex preparedness activities, but only one pin may be worn.Īll emergency activities carried out by Scouting units must be appropriate for the ages and abilities of the young people involved. The pin may be worn on civilian clothing or on the uniform, centered on the left pocket flap. Upon approval, an Emergency Preparedness pin is awarded. When a member has fulfilled the requirements, a completed application is submitted to the council.