August Ideas
School
is in session. Success in school helps makes a child’s
future successful! Not every family is fortunate to be able
to afford the necessary school supplies.
- Talk with your troop/group, family and/or
service unit about why school supplies are important.
- Shop at a local store to see the costs of
the required school supplies for your school districts.
Discuss with your troop/group an agency or venue through
which you could donate to help offset the costs of these
supplies for those families in need.
- Contact your local school district, faith
community, agency that serves needy families (i.e. Star
of Home, Salvation Army, women’s shelters) to learn
what they are collecting (individual supplies or packs).
- Make your donation and know students appreciate
you helping them be a success in school!
Girl Scouts are recruiting!
- Service units across the nation and around
our Council are planning recruitment rallies at local schools,
parks, and faith communities.
- Girls are a wonderful treasure for any rally
planner.
- Talk to your troop/group about how you were
recruited into Girl Scouts.
- Discuss what takes place at a rally. If you
don’t know, the leader can contact their local service
unit administrator to learn more.
- Brainstorm ways you can help with a Girl
Scout Rally:
-Perform a flag ceremony or sing a song
-Make favors for those attending
-Be a speaker at the rally to talk about Girl Scouting
-Babysit the younger children to allow the parents to attend
the meeting.
- Have your leader or the troop’s president
or a patrol leader contact your local service unit rally
coordinator or service unit administrator to volunteer you/your
troop’s services.
- Know that girls will become interested in
Girl Scouting because of what you shared!
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Featured Project
Adopt a Nursing Home Program Patch
www.gssjc.org/leaderresources/
 Girl
Scouts of San Jacinto Council have the special opportunity
to make history with those who have made history. Throughout
our Council, there are wonderful people who have led exciting
lives who are now living in group homes, nursing homes, and
assisted living facilities with no one to visit them.
- Make a line of ten girls. The first six
girls sit down. The seventh girl crouch down halfway. These
are the numbers of people in assisted living facilities
who have no one to visit them.
- Go one entire hour without talking to anyone
you know.
Can you do it?
People in assisted living facilities
go for days without talking to someone they know. You can
become that person. Glenn Miller of the Texas Department of
Aging and Disability Services (DADS) partnered with us to
develop an interesting and service oriented Program Patch
for girls to earn. This special patch even has rockers, to
allow girls the opportunity to repeat this wonderful service
to those who make history in their community.
The main feature asks troops/groups to agree
to visit four times during the year a selected location that
is located near their homes. Once this requirement is fulfilled,
troops receive a certificate from the State of Texas. With
your troop, review the requirements and consider incorporating
this wonderful service into your troop calendar this year.
The program patch requirements are also available
in the forms files at GSSJC offices.
For more ways to serve, please see the
service projects in the Program section of The Golden
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