Updates from NCYC Leaders’ Update Email

May 9, 2023

T-Shirt Contest!

Each Diocese of Gary NCYC participants will receive a t-shirt and this year, we want your teens to help design it! Invite your teens to be creative. Once we collect all of the t-shirt design submissions, you, the NCYC group leaders, will help discern which design will be the winner. The winning teen will receive $100 off their hotel costs. 

You can find the rules, how to submit the designs, graphics, and flyers at www.garyoyya.org/ncyc-t-shirt-contest

Register Your Participants: Please make sure you register your participants through our online registration as soon as you know who is going.
  • Group leaders collect registration information from their participants (both youth and adult participants) using this form.
  • After collecting those forms back, group leaders should go to this link and input their participants’ information.
  • Group leaders do not need to turn in the participant information forms. You can keep them for your records.
Thanks for your help!

Safe Environment  Like all events with youth, a top priority is their safety. All adults attending NCYC need to have undergo safe environment training as set by their diocese. For the diocese of Gary, that’s Virtus training done through the parish.

As more people register, we will start doing a safe environment audit to make sure your adults are trained and in compliance with diocesan standards. You can help by making sure your adults are save environment trained as you register them. Talk to your parish’s safe environment coordinator for more information and to check if they are already trained. If you need help, let me know.
 
Some frequently asked questions around NCYC and safe environment:
  • Do parents need to be Virtus trained? Yes. Parents also need to be Virtus trained if they are going to be in contact with other teens.
  • I have a college aged student coming to help. Do they need to be Virtus trained? Yes. Anyone 18 years old and out of high school is considered an adult and needs to follow diocesan safe environment policies. Anyone under 21 cannot be considered an official chaperone, but they can assist.
  • I will have high school participants who are 18. Do they have to be Virtus trained?  No. They are not considered adults in this context. Their guardians will still need to sign their permission forms.
If possible, please have all of your adults Virtus trained by November 1. When I gather our credentials at NCYC, I will have to sign an affidavit saying that all of our adults are compliant with our diocesan safe environment policies.