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Success as a Volunteer
Girl Scouts of Western Rivers
Council wants to help you to be a success in your volunteer position and enjoy
your time with us. We designed our adult development program to be convenient,
fun, easy to use and loaded with material that will help you make the most out
of your time with the girls. If you have any questions about what courses you
need, please contact your service unit manager or membership director for help.
Sorting Out What Trainings You
Need to Take
Progression is the key to the way Girl Scouts
learn about the world around them. In practice, progression means using common
sense in preparing for experience - one step at a time. A number of safeguards
are built into the Girl Scout program to ensure progression and girl readiness.
Progression is also integral to adults.
Whether an adult is learning to take a group on a hike, stay overnight in a
program center, or prepare a meal over an outdoor stove, some basic safety
considerations require that s/he be trained to take part in the planning and
implementation of the adventure. In turn, adults then teach girls the necessary
steps of successful planning.
Adult volunteers that demonstrate competence,
commitment to Girl Scouts, continuous improvement, and participate in adult
development opportunities that will increase their skill(s) in working with
girls may qualify for the Leadership Development pin.
We
encourage all troops/groups to have two trained adults. It is more productive
and can make the experience more fun!
Training Formats
Girl Scouts of
Western Rivers Council offers a
variety of training formats to accommodate the busy lives and different learning
styles of our adult volunteers. The following are the formats we offer:
Group Setting
This is where you get all the benefits of
learning the material directly from volunteer council trainers and interacting
with other adult volunteers around the councils jurisdiction.
Participants will submit a registration form
and any required fee to the council service center at least two weeks prior to
the course. After the course the trainer will sign your
training card.
Home-Study
The training material is presented in a
workbook that you complete on your own. This is ideal for those volunteers under
time restraints, don't have internet access or that can not travel.
Home-study booklet available at your local
service center. Access to a Safety-Wise book is required. Once participants have returned the
completed paperwork to the service center they will receive a signed training
card.
On-Line
For those who find learning on the computer
fun and convenient, we are offering a new on-line format.
Participants will log onto the training
through a link on our web site. They will be able to start and stop the course
as they need. Once complete, they will print off a certificate of completion.
Adult Development Course Descriptions
Online Training:
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New Volunteer Orientation
This course has been designed to convey the vision, values and goals as
well as the unique history and program of Girl Scouts. this is ideal
for any new volunteer starting at Girls Scouts of Western Rivers Council
that will be working with girls or adults.
Required before 1st meeting.
Pre-requisite: None
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Home Study
(now available!)
Online
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Program Age Level Training
The focus of this training is to help adults who work directly with
girls to understand the Girl Scout Program for the applicable program
level (Daisy, Brownie, Junior, Teen/Studio 2B). Topics include
resources, girl/adult partnership, program goals, and troop logistics. Must
take within 6 weeks of being a leader.
Required within 6 weeks of 1st meeting.
Pre-requisite: Orientation
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Group Setting
Daisy
Brownie
Junior
Teen/Studio 2B
Home Study
Daisy
Brownie
Junior
Online - Brownie
Online - Junior
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Girl Scouts on the Move
This two-part module is designed to help volunteers lead girls into new
adventures: Module 1—Field Trip Adventures; Module 2—Indoor Overnight
Adventures. This course will take you step-by-step through the process
involved in small field trips during your regularly scheduled meeting time
all the way to daytime outdoor activities and indoor overnights.
Required before taking girls anywhere beyond the meeting place.
Pre-requisite: Orientation, Age-Level
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Group Setting
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First Aid / CPR
This course gives adults the skills and confidence to address most
medical emergencies that may occur.
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: $25.00
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Camping
It gives adults the
skills to prepare their girls for outdoor cooking and management of a
campsite.
Required before taking girls on a camping trip.
Pre-requisite: Girl Scouts On The Move
Fee: see course list
Backpacking training available
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Extended Trip
This course will help leaders get their troop involved in planning that
big trip. Topics include safety, deciding on destinations,
transportation, budgeting and fundraising.
Required
before taking girls on a trip of more than three nights.
Pre-requisite: Girl Scouts on the Move
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Group Setting
Home Study
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Enrichment Classes
Sessions vary in subject matter and are designed to provide leaders
with supplemental information that will add to well-rounded troop programming
(i.e.- Crafts, Songs, Games, Ceremonies, etc.).
Class dates and times are listed as they become available.
Pre-requisite: None
Fee: see course list
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Group Setting
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Awards Programs
Learn the steps to guide your girls towards earning the Bronze (Juniors),
Silver or Gold Awards. Girls highly encouraged
to come.
Pre-requisite: None
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Group Setting
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Event Director Training
Required for all persons putting on an event where you charge money, or require
registration and is not sponsored by the council (i.e. Day Camp, Camporee,
Thinking Day,
etc.)
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Group Setting
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Chaperone Training for Mini-Destinations
Required for all adults who have filled out an application, and been
accepted as a designated adult on a council sponsored trip.
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Delegate
Elected delegates,
alternate delegates, Democratic Process Committee member, and any interested
person may attend ANY scheduled training in January of each year.
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Group Setting
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Training for
Trainers
Have you been a Girl Scout Leader for a couple of years
and would like to share
what you know?
Do you have talents to share? You are invited to come to Training for Trainers
and learn how to be a council trainer.
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Training for Girls
Program Aide - Are you interested in working with younger girls at Brownie Day Camp,
Junior Jam, and other events? Here’s your chance to develop leadership
skills and become qualified to help at various Girl Scout events.
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Group
Setting
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