Purpose: To educate Cub Scouts, Boy Scouts, Venturers, and Explorers about domestic violence, and to be better prepared to help prevent domestic violence.

Requirements: Unit Leader certifies the completion of requirements, and obtains special Domestic Violence Awareness patches from the GNFC Service Center.

 Cub Scouts:  Complete #1, and three more for a total of four..
 Boy Scouts:  Complete #1, and five more for a total six of ten.
 Venturers/Explorers: Complete #1, and five more, plus the community presentation, for a total of seven.

1. * Invite a speaker from a local domestic violence program to address your group. Have him/her discuss what domestic violence is, how to prevent it, and what options there are for those who are victims of abuse.  *Mandatory.
2. Design a poster or window display to teach your community about Domestic Violence. Get your parents or leaders’ help in displaying it.
3. Visit a local domestic violence advocacy agency and report on what you learned.  Example:  Domestic Violence Court, Family Court, SPCA, County Sheriff Department, local police domestic violence unit, etc.
4. Complete a service project to benefit a domestic violence advocacy agency.
5. Read a book or watch a movie about domestic violence. Write a one page report, or make a four minute speech to your group about what you learned.
6. Collect a total of six media articles about domestic violence. They may be used for requirement #2.
7. Complete a “Conflict Journal”. Write down for one week things that make you angry. What did you do? Present your report to your leader, and suggest ways in which you can respond to the things that make you angry.
8. Identify a healthy, and a non-healthy relationship. Make a list comparing the differences. May be used for requirement #2.
9. List as many ways as you can think to: get along better with your family, your friends, your classmates, your community, without using violence to settle problems.
10. Find out where to go for help if you or someone you know is a victim of domestic violence.

For Ventures / Explorers, or as an elective to replace one of the above:
Community Presentation:

• Plan and conduct a community awareness presentation about domestic violence, in the form of a skit, play, media ad, speech, press conference, peer teaching, or presentation to younger students at a school. May be done as a group project.

Completion of the Domestic Violence Prevention Patch links to requirements for Wolf, Bear, and Webelos; Crime Prevention Merit Badge, and the Crime Prevention Award for packs, troops, crews, posts and their members and leaders.

Unit Leaders contact the GNFC Service Center for information on obtaining patches.

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