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Since 1912, Girl Scouting has helped girls develop positive values and become active, responsible leaders in their communities. By increasing our emphasis on leadership, citizenship and service to others, Girl Scouting is poised to fulfill our mission of building girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Girl Scouting is a positive alternative for girls as they attempt to define themselves through interaction with other youth. Girl Scouting provides a values-based peer group that seeks to build relationships rather than break them down.

Girl Scouting is preventive. Girl Scouting works to help girls learn strong decision-making skills necessary to make wise choices in today’s society. This proactive approach helps a girl develop skills before she ends up as a statistic.

Girl Scouting is contemporary. As the needs of girls change, Girl Scouting changes. We prepare girls for their future roles in the home, at work and in their communities. Since 1912, Girl Scouting has risen to the challenge of meeting the unique needs of each generation of girls.

Girl Scouting is more than another girls’ club or after-school activity. It is a way of life founded on values and almost 100 years of tradition. It is a deliberate step toward shaping a girl’s future.

What does Girl Scouting mean to a girl? A world of opportunities through Girl Scouting will help her to:

Meet challenges
Make decisions based on her values
Learn to care for her community
Develop and refine social skills
Take a stand and act on issues important to her
Explore careers
Learn to appreciate diversity
Turn dreams into reality

Girl Scouts maintain significantly higher scores in comparison to non-Girl Scouts in these areas:

Leadership
Teamwork
Values clarification and decision-making
Self-reliance and independent living skills
Self-competence
Social skills and the ability to make friends
Respect for others
Helpfulness and concern for the community
Feeling of belonging

In Girl Scouting, girls can:

Develop leadership skills
Set goals and then achieve them
Learn in a safe environment
Improve their own abilities and talents
Learn from caring, positive adult role models
Build self-confidence, respect and self-reliance
Explore the world around them
Develop lifelong friendships
Foster understanding and acceptance of others
Become role models for others
Develop the spirit of volunteerism
Enhance the communities where they live

Girl Scouting makes a difference:

By offering opportunities available nowhere else
By providing beneficial learning experiences to girls from all backgrounds
By carefully designing activities to promote one of more of the four major goals of Girl Scouting:

To help each girl develop to her fullest potential – to become the best person she can be

To relate to others – to belong to a peer group connected by understanding, respect and traditional values

To develop values – to believe in the values taught in home and church and to make decisions based on those values

To contribute to society – to build responsible citizenship by taking action to improve her community, nation and world

Of every 100 girls who become Girl Scouts:

18 will develop hobbies used during their adult lives
17 will be future Girl Scout volunteers
12 will have their first contact with a church
8 will enter a vocation that was learned through a badge or patch program
5 will earn their church religious award
4 will earn the Gold Award, the highest award earned in Girl Scouting
1 will enter the clergy
1 will use her Girl Scouting skills to save someone’s life
1 will use her Girl Scouting skills to save her own life

Worldwide, there are over 10 million Girl Scouts and Girl Guides in more than 140 countries. Juliette Gordon Low organized the first group of Girl Scouts in the United States on March 12, 1912, in Savannah, Georgia. Girl Scouts of the USA was chartered by the U.S. Congress on March 16, 1950.

Girl Scouts. Girls who do great things. Don’t you deserve to be one? Click here to join.

Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
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