I am thinking of becomming a mentor with the Girl Scouts of America...??

Question

I was wondering if anyone has heard of this, and what do you do? Do you work with 1 or 2 girls, or do you work within the girl scouts?

Thanks!

I am 22 JYFI

Its not at the girl scouts.. its with girls at their houses, or doing things in the community. A mentor not a LEADEr

Answer 1

I was in girl scouts all thru school. There are different levels if I remember correctly. You can be a lead it may be called. You're basically they're teacher or mentor. It wouldn't most likely be 1-2 girls, normally its a troop. Some are small, others larger.

Youre best bet is to contact your local girl scouts council to see if your assistance is needed anywhere locally. And how you can help. Some mentors specialize in something and they will go visit the troop or the troops visits them to learn something.

By learning different things the girls can earn badges for completing certain actives. We of course did cookie selling. And earned badges for that as well. I use to have my Brownie uniform and everything. I think I still have my badges maybe. We went on campouts.

Sometimes the local council I believe it is "sponsors" a weekend type trip, like say at a local lake or campground, there's usually a fee per kid to attend and the troop leaders go with them for the weekend, whether its just for camping or swimming, horseback riding, things like that

www.girlscouts.org

its suppose to be a chance for girls to interact with other girls and learn to do new things, although I personally noticed in our troops there were still cliches.

Answer 2

There are many ways to become involved in Girl Scouts as an adult. If you want to work with the girls, you could be a leader or coleader or you could just volunteer to assist for special events.
As a leader or co-leader, you would be responsible for a group of girls, number depends upon age and number of leaders. But, as it sounds like you've never been a scout, I would probably not go that way.
As a general volunteer, you would be working with girls doing different activities, based on what the council is doing and what you are interested in. We had a young lady at our last council that loved the out of doors. She went on every campout the council was doing, and she even went on some with individual troops who needed extra adults. She was AWESOME! And she had no desire to be in charge, she just wanted to help. If you have a talent or a skill that the council could use, that would be even better... things you could teach the girls or work on badges with them.
GSA is always looking for good role models and strong women who want these girls to become the best that they can. Thanks for wanting to help out!!
And definately check out the link to GSA, you can find your local council through them.

EDIT:
Perhaps Big Sisters would be a better organization for you. GSUSA doesn't really do mentoring like you are thinking of. More in groups! Becoming a Big Sister would be more 1-1.

Answer 3

i was a leader of a girl scout troop when my daughter was growing up and loved it we had weekly meetings with about 10 girls we did crafts singing at nursing homes reading to the elderly did Christmas caroling all kinds of things to show the girls how to make the world better I think this is a good lesson for any kids