This form is for youth members to apply to have their skills and knowledge gained from the Youth pathways of Outdoor Adventure Skills to be granted credit for Scouting Adventure face to face course and/or Safe or Trained participant Scouting skills of the National Adventurous Activity Framework (NAAF).
You can only apply for one area per form, if you wish to apply for multiple areas you will need to submit a form for each.
For recognition of each area a logbook will be required to show currency and evidence of Outdoor Adventure Skill achievements. Extracts from Terrain or your OAS Record Book are good examples of acceptable evidence.
Scouts Australia have developed a handbook that explains the process in more detail, you can access it here. Please read the handbook prior to applying.
When looking at the evidence requirements for each area, consider your highest OAS stage as this is what will apply in this application. When an applicant meets the criteria to have an area recognized, any "lower ranked" areas will automatically be recognized as well.
When reading the evidence requirements, you will occassionally see an OAS stage listed, followed by a specific area of the discipline in brackets, this indicates the specific discipline that the OAS stage will apply to. In the NAAF there are multiple disciplines within Bushwalking (Tracked, Difficult Tracked and Untracked Environments), depending on your OAS progression you may receive RoP for one, two or all NAAF disciplines, this is represented by the discipline being included in brackets after the OAS stage, so using Bushwalking as the example - the evidence requirements for Safe Participant Bushwalking (Difficult Tracked Environments) will be written like the following "Stage 6 - Bushwalking (for Difficult Tracked Environments).