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Greetings all.

This edition focuses on your MyScouts To-Do list as we approach September.

Not included: other things you should be doing - like touching base with current volunteers and recruiting and onboarding new ones, preparing a welcome message for members, reaching out to people on your Waitlists to let them know registration opens 15 September - and to your current member-families to remind them of the 1 September registration opening.

If there's a specific topic you'd like to see covered in future editions, suggestions are welcome through Registration@scouts.ca. Please include "Reg Newsletter" in the subject line.

The "Volunteer Renewal" option is available (and functional) in "My Menu" below the coloured "Register..." buttons.

Use the "Register as Volunteer" option in own MyScouts account, and when prompted for who to register, choose "Myself".

The minimum age to be a Scouter is 14.

Youth under 18 require annual parental consent to volunteer - so no "Renew" option is offered.

Linked-parent uses the "Register as Volunteer" option in own MyScouts account, and when prompted for who to register, choose applicable youth.

Whether through registration or renewal, Scouter roles are created with "Pending" status by default and require "GCap" - approval of appointment from one's Commissioner. (For Section Scouters and Group Committee members, this is the Group Commissioner. For Group Commissioners, approval may come from your Council Commissioner or the Relationship Manager supporting your Group.)

In the lower-middle left-side of each log-in accessible MyScouts profile is a "My Profile" box.

This information is always the user's - even when viewing someone else's or an "Org Unit" (Example: Section) profile.

There, you can find your PRC status and expiry date. If you're coming due to renew or your PRC has already expired, please get a new one.

Questions on how to apply or submit results? Contact Registration@scouts.ca

Respect in Sport for Activity Leaders training is required by all registered adult members (Scouters, Rovers, Employees) and youth Scouters. Training is "good" for five years.

Over the coming months (and particularly this time next year), many of us will reach the end of our first five year period and need to re-certify.

Check "My Training" (or log into the David Huestis Learning Centre to access the Respect session) to see your completion date. 2016 expire this year.

For more information, please see our Online Support Centre > Respect in Sport FAQ.

If you're new to your role within the past year and have not already done so, you will need to complete Wood Badge training.

Wood Badge for Canadian Path

Section Scouters with older "Section-specific" (example Wood Badge for Pack) are encouraged to update training with Wood Badge for Canadian Path. It's not "re-doing"; the training (and program it supports) is very different.

Wood Badge for Group Committee (recommended for Administrators, Registrars, Treasurers)

OR

Wood Badge for Canadian Path (which may be a better choice for Scouters who provide help to Sections)

Wood Badge for Group Commissioners which includes

First Aid is an important supplemental training you might consider (or may need updating).

Other supplemental training sessions are available through the David Huestis Learning Centre and may be offered through your Council. (Check their newsletters.)

On or about 1 September, all Scouters and Rover Scouts will be prompted to recommit to the Code of Conduct. Non-members with current roles (like Parent Helpers) will also be prompted when they log in.

Although we do not expect 2021-22 Scouter roles to be "Active" prior to 1 September, if any are, they will revert back to "Pending" until the Code of Conduct has been accepted.

After renewing, Scouters "Pending" roles will appear in the Group's Scouter Approval feature - available in the Group profile. Group Commissioners need approval from either their Council Commissioner or Relationship Manager. (Approval of GCs is done via the Area profile - although we no longer use Areas outside MyScouts "Hierarchy".)

While renewed roles are "Pending", the Scouter Approval feature allows the Group Commissioner to:

When added, if this was the last requirement to be met, the role will become "Active" within the next hour.

Note: Although Group Registrars and Administrators can add "GCap", they should only do so if the Group does not have an "Active" Group Commissioner.

2021 Waitlists will be cleared 31 August to prepare for the new 2022 registration season.

Groups are encouraged to run Waitlist reports and to invite people on it to register on/after 15 September.

More General "2022 Early Registration FAQs" are available

on our national site > Join > Join Menu > FAQ

(scroll down below the "Join FAQ")

The Join Scouts registration platform is set up to offer the appropriate Section based on youth age as of 31 December of the year before the Participant membership year. (For 2022: 31 December 2021)

For the 2022 Participant membership year, we're introducing a new feature that will enable Groups to make exceptions for youth not yet 5 (who they believe to be mature enough for Scouting) to be registered.

Check out the Group Guide to MyScouts for details on how to make exceptions possible.

Note: You are not required to offer an exception to any/all youth under 5 who parents may want to register.