San Diego-Imperial Council is hosting four exciting opportunities to support our local Scouting Programs this fall. Please join us for one or more events. Your support makes a difference in the lives of the youth in San Diego and Imperial Counties.

• Champions of Scouting on September 30th
• Construction Lunch-O-Ree on October 5th
• Sporting Clays on October 13th
• Golf Tournament on November 8th

Need some help with Fall Recruitment? Order custom flyers from council, reserve the use of recruiting equipment, and let us know how your event went.We even have a resource page to help.

Have a poppin' good time and earn great money for Scouting! Popcorn sales are now under way.

The popcorn Switchboard is now open. You can register your wants and/or extras of product or update the quantities of your wants and/or extras. You can also view who has product to give or take.

With schools back in session and Fall Recruitment underway, we have a new Membership Registration/Renewal Resources page that provides helpful information to assist you in getting your new youth and adults properly registered.

The unit recharter period is on the horizon. We also have a new Recharter Resources page with tools and tips to help you successfully recharter your unit. The page has a link for Journey to Excellence, which is not only a way to measure your unit's performance at end of the year, but also as a tool during your annual unit planning.

Both pages are always available via the Membership section of the website.

Effective January 1, 2022, the state of California adopted the law AB 506, which applies to ALL youth service organizations throughout the State. It is in addition to BSA Youth Protection Training, thus furthering council's support of their mission to protect youth in our program.

All administrators, employees, and "regular volunteers" are required:

• To take AB 506 online to complete mandated reporter training and to undergo Live Scan fingerprinting and a background check.
• A "regular volunteer" is anyone 18 years of age or older and who has direct contact with, or supervision of children for more than 16 hours a month or 32 hours per year.

• Step one: Take State Mandated Volunteer Training
• Step two: Take a LiveScan Background Check

Registered adults in the BSA who do not meet the definition of a "regular volunteer" must complete the "Declaration of Exception"

Read the latest edition of council's monthly newsletter - Scouting 360 - where you can find out about what's happening at council and your zone, program news and much more. Also available for your reading pleasure are past issues.