Put a Healthy Spin on Girl Scout Journeys with Healthy Habits Journey Booklets.

Staying Healthy and Fit
Keeping Girls Healthy and Fit with 'Healthy Habits' Journey Booklets

Whether they're hiking, trying a new sport, or preparing tasty, nutritious snacks, Girl Scouts enjoy many fun ways to lead healthy lives. Health and fitness have been part of Girl Scouting since girls ran foot races in 1912! Through the National Program Portfolio—Leadership Journeys and The Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting for girls at all levels—girls develop leadership and build skills they can use now and in the future. Healthy living activities are woven throughout the Girl Scout program in varied ways to provide girls with choice and flexibility.

Healthy Habits Booklets

Daisy: Between Earth and Sky with Healthy Habits (PDF) (For girls in kindergarten and first grade)	Brownie: WOW! Wonders of Water with Healthy Habits (PDF) (For girls in second and third grade)	Junior: Get Moving! with Healthy Habits (PDF) (For girls in fourth and fifth grade)

Read on to learn more about these Healthy Habits booklets...
In partnership with the Healthy Weight Commitment Foundation, Girl Scouts has developed three "healthy habits" booklets for volunteers to use in conjunction with their Journey Adult Guides. The booklets will help guide girls on their Journey as they learn to lead active, healthy lifestyles. Through the use of these free resources for Daisies, Brownies, and Juniors, Girl Scout volunteers and families can guide girls in fun, easy ways to achieve "energy balance" through awareness of:
Energy In: the calories you get from eating and drinking.
Energy Out: the calories you burn from physical activities.

Healthy Habits booklets are to be used in conjunction with Adult Guides in the It's Your Planet—Love It! series. To purchase copies of Journey Adult Guides and Journey books for girls from all three Journey series, visit our concil shop at shop.gsccc.org

Are you our next Camp Director?

Have fun at camp and get paid...$500-$550 per week. Join us as a resident camp director at Camp Skimino/Darden from 6/9/13-8/24/13. Not available all summer, we need a day camp director at Camp Apasus from 8/11/13-8/23/13. Join us to Discover the leader within you; Connect with new friends; and Take Action by creating the future leaders of tomorrow at Girl Scout camp!! Candidates must be at least 25 years of age with prior supervisory experience. The Camp Director must reside at camp while in session. To learn more about this position and how to apply TODAY visit http://gsccc.org/media/52116/campdirector.pdf or contact hr@gsccc.org.

P.S. If you aren’t our next camp director but know of someone who should be, please share this opportunity!!

Camp Registration is OPEN!

While at Girl Scout camp, girls are encouraged to make new friends, learn to work and build a community with others, develop self-confidence and learn new skills. Campers are placed with other girls the same age in units with adult staff supervision.

Any registered Girl Scout in grades 1-12 may attend camp. Becoming a Girl Scout is easy, simply pay an additional $12 membership fee to join if you're not already a member. All campers must be entering 1st grade in the fall of 2013.

Read on to learn more about choosing the camp that is right for your Girl Scout!


Participation is open to all girls regardless of race, religion, ethnicity,national origin, abilities or socio-economic status. Our goal is to provide a beneficial experience for every girl, everywhere. Financial assistance is available for those who may have difficulty paying the fee.

To choose the perfect camp for that special Girl scout in your life, take a look at our camp guide, Camp Like A Girl Scout.

To register for camp, visit ebiz.gsccc.org. 

Parents: When registering your child for camp, please log into your child's account. If you need assistance identifying your child's account, contact us at Support@gsccc.org. If you have not activated your child's account please activate her account on this link. Logging into the adult's account to place a camp order will result in an error message stating that the camp is full.

It's not too late to join Cookie Club!

 Girls can now "ask" customers online!

 

 

The faster, easier way to reach high goals 

How does it work?

 

In Cookie Club, girls email customers customizable eCards asking for online orders. Customers place orders online, and the orders are automatically recorded in the girl’s Cookie Club account.

 

Why participate?

 

• Setting goals, decision making, money management, people skills, business ethics — these are key learning goals of the cookie program. Cookie Club will help you learn these new skills.
• Increase your sales!
• Booth sale = 3.1 packages per order
• Door to door = 3.3 packages per order
• Workplace or school = 3.6 packages per order
• Online: 6 packages per order
• Cookie club helps to track your sale and your goals.

How do I get started?

 

Girls cannot join the Cookie Club until the leader sets up the troop account and the girls return their signed permission forms. When she has received a girl's signed permission form, the leader will give the girl an ID and password so she can use the online tools.

 

What About Safety?

 

The Cookie Club is a password-protected area only for Girl Scouts and the adults supervising them. The Web site is closed to all but authorized girls, troop leaders and councils.

  

Questions? Contact Alexandria Carruth at alexandriac@gsccc.org

 

2013 Camping Fees and Reporting for All GSCCC Facilities

With the on-line registration process beginning soon we have revised the facility camping fees to make registration easier and possibly save you money. Before the revision, we had a single night fee for one night (24 hours) and a weekend fee for two nights (48 hours). Now we have only one fee per day. For example; the APFG Lodge was $60 for a single night or $115 for a weekend. With the new fee you will pay $55 per night for as many nights as you like. All of the revised Camp Facility fees can be found at GSCCC.org (About Us/Facilities/Camp (specific)/Resources-Facility Fees.

In order to compile accurate information as to our camp/facility utilization rates and safety issues, we will now require that all groups using our camps and facilities complete and submit the Camping Report Site Form and Check List for Breaking Camp to the Camp Ranger before leaving the camp (these forms will be included in the confirmation packet you will receive). If you do not bring the forms, they will be provided by the Camp Ranger to be completed onsite.

Destinations

Girl Scout destinations fall into five categories: international, outdoors, science, people, and getaways. Facilitated by Girl Scouts of the USA and hosted by individual Girl Scout councils, GSUSA, and contracted organizations, such as Outward Bound, Girl Scout destinations events or trips open girls up to whole new worlds and ideas.

Please check online for the 2013 destinations that are accepting “late” applications. The destinations website has been updated to reflect the destinations that are FULL.

http://www.girlscouts.org/forgirls/travel/destinations/event_list.asp?catid=0

 

Wilderness First Aid

Wilderness First Aid Class

Go beyond basic first aid to learn how to care for injuries and illnesses that occur when help may not show up for a while.  Whether camping out for the weekend or surviving a disaster, the Wilderness First Aid course teaches you how to deal with emergencies.  GSUSA/BSA/ACA Approved!

Register for this class by clicking on the link below and then clicking on "Wilderness First Aid".

http://www.hrgstraining.com

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