Volunteer Essentials Volunteer Essentials 2015-16 - Updated 5/31/17 | Page 113

  Watercraft Certification This course is designed to qualify adult volunteers to be equipped and trained in the use of small watercraft via canoes, funoes and kayaks for short periods on the small lakes with the girls. ● Must hold certification from one of the following: o American Canoe Association o American Red Cross Small Craft Safety o Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission Boating Instructor ● A person at least 18 years of age with lifeguard certification must also be present. This person must be an additional person from the watercraft instructor. ● For further information, please refer to Safety Activity Checkpoints. Firearms Certification This course is designed to qualify adult volunteers and girls with firearms to ensure proper usage, safety and education. ● Girls must be 12 years old and properly supervised and insured. ● Only professionally insured and licensed or NRA certified instructors should be chosen to conduct activity. ● Each participant must have a completed and signed GSWPA Rifle Program Release Form and Code of Conduct Agreement submitted to GSWPA. ● Minimum age to become certified is 18 years old. ● Extreme weather conditions or unforeseen problems may necessitate cancellation immediately prior to or during the activity (Safety Activity Checkpoints). For more information on training requirements, contact the Director of Outdoor Program at 1-800-248-3355 x 1046. Challenge Course Certification This course is designed to qualify adult volunteers to become skilled in the climbing wall, low and high ropes and zip lining. Volunteers can master these challenge elements and include a team building element with the girls as each skill is learned and used as a building block. ● For high ropes, it is strongly recommended that the participants be in 4 th grade or have prior low ropes course experience. ● Each participant must have a completed and signed Challenge Course Release Form submitted to GSWPA. ● Facilitator(s) must hold GSWPA Challenge Course Certification for the chosen course and be 18 years or older. ● If facilitating at a non-GSWPA site, the facilitator must have that site's facilitator training or ACCT (Association for Challenge Course Technology) Level II Certification. ● Extreme weather conditions or unforeseen problems may necessitate cancellation immediately prior to or during the activity (Safety Activity Checkpoints).