Personal Safety Awareness

Personal Safety Awareness is Scouting America's youth safety training. It replaced the Cyber Chip, which Scouting America retired on January 1, 2024. Scouting America developed it with the Barbara Sinatra Children's Center Foundation. It covers digital safety, bullying, abuse prevention and youth protection, and teaches Scouts to recognize safe and unsafe situations, what to do if someone behaves abusively, and to go to a parent or another trusted adult for help.

Scouts complete this with a parent for the Scout and Star rank requirements: the parent and Scout work through the exercises in the parent's guide pamphlet, and the Scout views the videos with the parent's permission. Abuse is an uncomfortable topic, but it is an important one, and covering it helps keep Scouts and leaders safe.

Scouting America has more on the Personal Safety Awareness series. See also Safeguarding Youth Training for adults.