Mentoring Awards

Junior Aide

While earning the Junior Aide Award, you will help Daisy, Brownie or bridging Brownie Girl Scouts. You will also learn more about things you like to do, grow in leadership skills, and be a role model to younger Girl Scouts.

Requirements:

  • Current Girl Scouts registration. No specific hour requirements.
  • Step 1: Talk with the person helping you in Girl Scouting about becoming a Junior Aide. With help, find a troop or group of younger girls you can work with. 
  • Step 2: Talk to the leader of the troop/group of younger girls. Find out what you can do to help. Arrange with the adult volunteer times, dates, and places that you will get together with the younger girls. Discuss with her the activities you would like to help with for at least three meetings. 
  • Step 3: Meet with younger girls. Help with activities. Keep a log of your volunteer time using Junior Aide Award paperwork.

Cadette program aide (pa)

As a program aide, you will have the opportunity to work directly with younger girls. An adult volunteer or staff member will supervise you as you share your experience and develop your leadership skill. 

Requirements: 

  • Step 1: Earn one Leader in Action (LiA) award. You can earn a Leader in Action (LiA) award by assisting a Brownie group on any of their National Leadership Journeys. There are three different LiA awards, one for each of the Journey series: It's Your World-Change It!, It's Your Planet-Love it!, and It's Your Story-Tell It!. Complete requirements can be found in the Girl's Guide to Girl Scouting for Cadettes and in the Brownie Leadership Journey adult guides.
  • Step 2: Complete Program Aide training. Part of your leadership course training will involve learning to work with children and gaining a deeper understanding of a speciality such a science, art, the outdoors, or adapting activities for girls with disabilities. Training under the new requirements will begin in February 2012. All trainings will be listed on the events calendar found on the website. Your girls aren't able to make it to a council training?  For more information on facilitating your own Program Aide training, contact Programs@gsctx.org.  
  • Step 3: Use your knowledge to work directly with younger girls over six activity sessions. This might include assisting girls on Journeys activities (in addition to the activity completed to earn the LiA award), badge activities, working with a group at a day camp, or during a special council event. 
  • Step 4: After completing steps one, two and three, the Cadette Girl Scout will earn the Program Aide pin.

vOLUNTEER-IN-tRAINING (vit)

This award is for girls who would like to mentor a Girl Scout Daisy, Brownie, Junior or Cadette group outside of the camp experience. If you have complete ninth grade, you're eligible to earn this award. Your VIT project should span a three-to-six month period. 

Requirements: 

  • Step 1: Find a mentor volunteer who is currently the adult volunteer for a group of girls at the level you would like to work with. This volunteer will help you through your training and internship, and you'll help the volunteer with her group of girls for three-to-six month period.
  • Step 2: Complete council designed leadership course. GSCTX's Program Aide Training will be availale to complete this requirement until our leadership course is rolled out. Course offerings will be formally starting Fall 2012 and will be listing on the event calendar. For more information on facilitating your own Program Aide training, contact Programs@gsctx.org.
  • Step 3: Create and implement a thoughtful program based on a Journey or badge that lasts over four or more sessions. Be responsible for designing, planning, and evaluating activities. If you're passionate about a topic like art or technology, you could design the activites around the area you love or in which you have expertise.