Colorado classifies all youth camps as childcare facilities, so we have to collect more paperwork than most Scouting America camps. What your Scout needs depends on their medications:

• No medications: Only the immunization paperwork may be different from other camps.
• Rescue medication (inhaler or EpiPen): Two extra forms, both signed by the doctor: the Colorado Contract to Carry and a Permission for Medication Administration form.
• Daily or regular medications: One extra form per medication, the Permission for Medication Administration, completed by the prescribing doctor.

All of these forms are in the youth forms packet (PDF). To keep it to one doctor visit, print the whole packet ahead of time and bring it with you. Adults use the adult forms packet (PDF). The health forms guide walks through every form and who signs it.

At camp, all youth medications are turned in at check-in. During the week, Scouts come to the Med Lodge at their med times with water to take their medications. Safeguarding Youth rules apply on the way there and back, and at least one unit leader has to be at the Med Lodge with them. The Med Lodge is staffed 24 hours a day by qualified medical staff who meet Scouting America’s camp accreditation standards (NCAP) and Colorado’s child care licensing rules. We’ll go into more detail during the online leader meetings.