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PARENT PARTICIPATION
The patrol leaders' council can involve parents in the program
feature this month by
• Asking qualified parents to assist with first aid instruction
• Inviting parents to "The Real Thing" event
• Asking parents to provide transportation to the outing site
PATROL LEADERS' COUNCIL
The patrol leaders' council should meet in the middle of the
previous month to plan troop activities for this program feature.
If you don't complete all items on the following agenda, con-
tinue planning at patrol leaders' council meetings after each
troop meeting.
• Decide whether "The Real Thing" will be a single day or a
weekend camp-out. >
• Choose the site and secure permission, if needed.
• Ask the patrol leaders to inventory their patrol's first aid sup-
plies and report deficiencies. Fill needs. Ask for help from the
troop committee.
• Either plan the "emergency" situations the patrols will face dur-
ing "The Real Thing," or, for complete surprise, assign an adult
leader to plan them. See sample emergencies in this section.
• Plan details of troop meetings for the month. Assign patrol
demonstrations, covering skills that will be needed for "The Real
Thing."
• Arrange to invite First Aid and Emergency Preparedness merit
badge counselors to help with troop meeting instruction and to
serve as judges for patrol performance on "The Real Thing."
Hold a junior leader training session (Scoutmaster's Junior
Leader Training Kit).
"THE REAL THING"
The big event will be a practice exercise to test your patrols'
reactions to emergencies. Set up emergency situations that will
be within the skill levels of the Scouts. At least some of the situ-
ations should require making decisions in "life-threatening"
emergencies.
Some of the emergencies take place in wilderness situations;
others, in urban areas. The Scouts' family members or friends
may play the parts of victims.
Have First Aid or Emergency Preparedness merit badge
counselors or other experts on hand to judge patrol perfor-
mances.
The following are sample problems. Make up additional prob-
lems that will involve Scouts of various skill levels.
PROBLEM 1. A Scout patrol is on a camp-out in a heavily wood-
ed area of a national forest. A severe thunderstorm and flash
flood hits their campsite. Both adult leaders are immobilized with
broken legs; one is unconscious. Several Scouts have severe
EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS 3 1997
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