On May 15, 2025, at the National Annual Meeting, Scouting America announced a new training course that replaces Youth Protection. This new course is called Safeguarding Youth Training, or "SYT".
The Scouting America data systems recognize these two courses:
- Safeguarding Youth Training (SCO_3014) - NOT USED FOR TRACKING CERTIFICATION
- Safeguarding Youth Training Certification (Y01)
It appears that Scouting America intends to track training compliance using the Certification (Y01) entry, which is good for 12 months. We will use that same entry when we compute each member's SYT (formerly "YPT") status. We will NOT use the Safeguarding Youth Training (SCO_3014) to track completion of this requirement.
Scouting America also released a new training report, the Safeguarding Youth Training Aging Report, which includes past YPT training as well as the new SYT training. We now support this new report in our Upload Training From My.Scouting page.
All grids and reports that show YPT information have been relabeled "SYT", as shown here:
If a leader has not yet completed Safeguarding Youth Training, then their status in this column will be based on when they last took Youth Protection Training 2. This training will expire no later than May 31, 2026, regardless of when it was completed.
Once a leader completes Safeguarding Youth Training, this certification will expire in 12 months, even if their earlier YPT certification (which may have been for 2 years) has a later expiration date.