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SAFETY FIRST
Related Advancement:
Skill Awards: Q Communications
Q Community Living Q Family
Living Q First Aid
Merit Badges: Q Emergency
Preparedness Q Firemanship
Q First Aid Q Safety
Progress Awards: All
Scout Literature Resources:
Scout Handbook
Scoutmaster's Handbook
Fieldbook
Patrol and Troop Activities
Patrol and Troop Leadership
Scout Songbook
Communications Skill Book, No. 6582
Merit badge pamphlets for subjects
listed above
TROOP LEADERS' COUNCIL. (See
agenda on page 119, Patrol and Troop
Leadership.)
Meet about a week before activities
begin on this theme. Cover these items:
• Decide on Safety Good Turn. (See
ideas on this page.) Ask help of troop
committee in securing resources.
• Review Communications skill award
requirements and how to teach Scout
skills.
• Assign the Game period of each troop
meeting to a patrol; patrol leader will
assign a Scout to lead game.
• Discuss troop's part in Energy Educa-
tion and Conservation program. (See
page SCOUT 7 INTRO.)
• Conduct progress review for Tender-
foot through First Class.
SAFETY GOOD TURN IDEAS. Several
ideas for Good Turns are listed below.
For others, check your community's
police and fire departments and insur-
ance agencies.
Fires afety Demonstration. Have a
public demonstration and display on
fire prevention and first aid for burns.
Schedule it for an evening or all day
Saturday in a shopping center parking
lot, a vacant lot in the city or wherever
pedestrian traffic is heavy. Include such
i
Bi
things as:
• Photocopied home firesafety check-
lists to be distributed to your audience
(See Firemanship merit badge pamphlet
for sample checklist.)
• Demonstration of how to extinguish
flames on a person and first aid for
burns. (Use realistic makeup for
burns—see page 68, Patrol and Troop
Activities.)
• Demonstration of making and using
safe campfires.
• Demonstration of the fire triangle
(Firemanship merit badge pamphlet).
Neighborhood Watch. In some areas,
local law enforcement agencies have
joined in the National Neighborhood
Watch Program of the National Sher-
iff's Association and Law Enforcement
Assistance Administration. The Watch
is aimed at alerting citizens to ways
they can reduce the number of home
burglaries and other crimes.
Your troop might cooperate by distrib-
uting literature or aiding law enforce-
ment men in other ways through the
Neighborhood Watch plan. Check with
local police or sheriff's department.
Crime Resistance Program. Some city
police departments have joined with
the FBI in a concerted campaign to
reduce various types of crime. Like the
Neighborhood Watch program, the key
to the Crime Resistance Program is
citizen awareness. Police use various
means, including workshops, media
campaigns and literature to make cit-
izens aware of what they can do to
avoid becoming victims of crime.
Your troop might cooperate with
local police in this program, by assisting
at meetings, delivering literature about
Crime Resistance, or in other ways.
Check with local law enforcement
agencies.
Bike Rodeo. As a Safety Good Turn for
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