Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma

Girl Scouting was founded by Juliette Gordon Low on March 12, 1912, in Savannah, Georgia. Around 1917, the first Oklahoma Girl Scout troops were organized in several cities and towns throughout the state. Eventually, many small Councils formed all around the state. Over the years, there have been several consolidations of those small Councils. The last consolidation brought together three Councils on the eastern one-half of the state of Oklahoma to form Girl Scouts of Eastern Oklahoma, which encompasses 30 counties covering approximately 30,000 square miles of territory.
Mission Statement:  Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.
While this particular Girl Scout council is geographically large, it has found local volunteers to meet the needs of the members.
Girl Scouts accept volunteers for a variety of opportunities.  Please request additional information as the list is much too long to provide in this blog post.

Membership Services is a program with the goal: To ensure that the Girl Scout Leadership Experience is delivered to girls through trained adult female role models through various pathways (troop, events, series, travel, camp, virtual); that girls discover, connect and take action, in a girl led, learning by doing, interactive environment, developing courage, confidence and character, and making the world a better place.  It is anticipated that this program will serve 376 Girls  and 98 Adults in 2012.

Girl Scouts Community Outreach with a program goal to ensure equal access to the Girl Scout Leadership Experience for all girls in tbe Ada Regional United Way area. As a rule, the GSLE experience is delivered in an after school, volunteer led environment. But many girls miss out on this experience due to lack of volunteer leadership or financial circumstances.  The target population is K-12th grades and is expected to serve 17 girls in 8 sessions of programming.  This is exactly an example of how a volunteer could be utilized; by teaching this program.

When ARUW asked this agency how their programs differed from similar programs in the area, the Girl Scouts provided the following information:
(l) All-girl. Studies have shown that girls who have an opportunity to work in a supportive all-girl environment have higher self-esteem and confidence;
(2) non-formal, hands-on education that promotes personal growth at d leadership development;
(3) uniquely designed to help girls grow in leadership, decision-making and other life-skills;
(4) helps girls make positive moral decisions;
(5) prepares girls to be "someone who can make their own choices;"
(6 ) provides girls a safe place and a judgment-free space where they can be themselves and be valued for their abilitic ;
(7) allows girls to select from many activities -they don' t have to limit themselves to just one that absorbs all their free line and energy.