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Re: [APO-L] How to count Scouting/other youth activities hours for APO, P VSA, NYSA, etc
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brown Michael-EMB021)
Mon Jun 14 11:33:27 2004
Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 11:32:54 -0400
Reply-To: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@motorola.com>
From: Brown Michael-EMB021 <Michael.R.Brown@motorola.com>
To: APO-L@LISTSERV.IUPUI.EDU
>Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:35:35 -0400
>From: Michael Gallagher <famtree@UDel.Edu>
>
>Now that I've hit another break from school, I've become somewhat active in my Boy Scout
>troop again. Suggestions on how to count these hours for the Youth Service Award
>(external to APO, goes by another name & requires 50 hours of youth service in a year)?
The award you are thinking of is the President's Volunteer Service Award, formerly called the President's Student Service Award.
You can visit the website for the award at: http://www.presidentialserviceawards.gov/
The award has several levels, but the minimum requires 100 hours of service within a 12 month period. Service must be in the areas of Youth Achievement, Parks & Open Spaces, Healthy Communicates, and Public Safety & Emergency Response.
If you check the site, you will see that YOU are responsible for entering in your own time, and your 'sponsoring group' (ie your chapter) then verifies your time.
> The issue is that since I'm not involved regularly, I can't be in charge of trips, etc. >I come to meetings but it's not continuously helping or necessarily doing so at a given
>meeting. Could I count a troop committee meeting? I went to a car wash for an Eagle
>project fundraiser recently for 3 hours but there was much time that I was excess.
Well, it depends on how you look at this stuff as service hours or not. I personally wouldn't count meetings as service hours. Fundraisers are a gray area, and would certainly only count it if I did work.
>How do I count helping at camp for a week as I did last year & will this one if I can't
>get a job by July? I think that may qualify me for 50 hours unless only my own
>instruction time is counted.
Well, its it volunteer work at camp or are you being paid?
Hope this helps
Michael Brown
APO LM & TB
