Team Information

Consent & Release Forms:

FIRST requires all youth team members to register. Youth team members who have not registered will not be permitted to participate in FIRST remote and in-person team meetings, events, or competitions. 

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Youth Team Member Registration can be completed through the Express Enrollment application, and is for youth team members who have been invited to an existing team. To register your youth, please see instructions through the link below for coaches/mentors and parents/guardians of youth participants.

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Click Here for the Youth Registration System Overview

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Click Here to Download the FIRST Consent & Release Form

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FIRST Youth Protection:

Safety is at the forefront of FIRST® participation.

The FIRST Youth Protection Program (linked here) provides all participants in FIRST programs with

information, guidelines, and procedures to create a safe environment for our student participants.

The information below contains key components of the FIRST Youth Protection Program that all adults

and youth – especially mentors and event volunteers – should be aware of while participating in FIRST programs.

 

FIRST® Portal for Incident Reporting (Youth Protection Concerns, Medical Incidents, or Other)

 

FIRST has a zero-tolerance policy regarding retaliation against anyone who reports a concern or who cooperates in an investigation of a reported concern.

All submissions to the Reporting Portal are investigated by FIRST with appropriate action taken based on the findings.

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Mentor Training

The FIRST Youth Protection page (linked here) provides a number of resources that adults should be familiar with before working with youth in our programs. The FIRST Youth Protection Program guide(download here) contains the policies and guidelines that all volunteers and youth participants must adhere to when participating with FIRST. The Youth Protection page also has a link to Youth Protection Training Videos (linked here). This training is intended to enable adults working with FIRST teams to recognize situations that may pose a threat to team member safety and take the actions necessary to prevent and report injuries. We encourage anyone participating with FIRST to take this training to better understand how to protect themselves and our youth participants. The training consists of a series of short videos; each video is no more than 5 minutes, and the entire series can be completed in 40-50 minutes.

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Mentor Screening

Each US and Canada-based FIRST team is required to have at least two adult mentors who have passed Youth Protection screening.

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We also recommend that Lead Mentors require any individual who will participate in 30% or more of team activities go through the screening and training. Lead Mentors can request screenings on other team mentors by using the “Manage Contacts” button on their Team Roster on the FIRST Dashboard (linked here).

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If you have questions, would like more information, or would like to speak to someone directly, please email safetyfirst@firstinspires.org or call 603-206-2050. You can find more information, training, and guidance at http://www.firstinspires.org/youth-protection.