a Juliette’s GUIDE TO GIRL SCOUTS Regional Office Hays Office 2707 Vine Street, Suite 8 INFORMATION Hays, KS 67601 Phone: (785) 625-5671 Fax: (785) 625-7695 Office hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday Wichita Headquarters Girl Shop hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday, 360 Lexington Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday; open until 6:30 Wichita, KS 67218 p.m. on Tuesday. 1-888-686-MINT (6468), (316) 684-6531 Phone: Shop email: [email protected] Fax: (316) 684-4141 Office hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Fridays Shop hours: 8 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. on Mondays; Salina Office 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. 3115 Enterprise Drive Suite C Shop email: [email protected] Salina, KS 67401 Phone: (785) 827-3679 Fax: (785) 827-6679 Emporia Amend Center Office hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday 1200 Burlingame Road Shop hours: 8 a.m. - 6:30 p.m. on Mondays; Emporia, KS 66801 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday. (620) 342-4532 Phone: Shop email: [email protected] Fax: (620) 342-8066 Office hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Friday Shop hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday, Tuesday, Our office and shop hours can vary. Please check Thursday and Friday; open until 6:30 p.m. on updates on our council website: Wednesday. kansasgirlscouts.org Shop email: [email protected]

Garden City Office National Level (GSUSA) 114 Grant Avenue girlscouts.org Garden City, KS 67846 This includes all 112 council’s in the United States. Phone: (620) 276-7061 The National Headquarters for Girl Scouts of the Fax: (620) 276-7143 USA is located in New York City. Office hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday - Fridays Shop hours: 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through International Level (WAGGGS) Wednesday and Friday; open until 6:30 p.m. on wagggsworld.org Thursday. World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts Shop email: [email protected] Headquarters are located in London.

kansasgirlscouts.org Information Technology facebook.com/ksgirlscouts On average, there are more than 50,000 unique visitors twitter.com/ksgirlscouts to kansasgirlscouts.org yearly. The Council also has a flickr.com/ksgirlscouts strong social media presence on Facebook, Twitter, and CONNECT youtube.com/ksgirlscouts 2 YouTube. ONLINE Girl Scout Fundamentals

There are two important guiding principles in Girl Scouts: the Promise and the Law.

Welcome to Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland! Girl I’m so excited that you’ve joined Girl Scouts! As a Juliette Girl On my honor, I will try: Scout, you get to participate in new and exciting Girl Scout To serve God* and my country, experiences that fit your interests and your schedule. Juliette Girl Scouts can do anything Girl Scouts in a troop can. You to help people at all times, will learn to Discover, Connect, and Take Action, all the while and to live by the Girl . discovering and using your special skills and talents. *When reciting the Girl Scout Promise, you may We have three different Journey books filled with great substitute wording appropriate to your own activities – It’s Your Planet, Love It; It’s Your World, Change It; spiritual beliefs. and It’s Your Story, Tell It. We also have LOTS of badges that you can earn, which include a variety of skill-building activities. Girl Scout Law In fact, earlier this year girls across the nation chose a new set of Outdoor badges: Outdoor Adventurer (Brownie), Horseback I will do my best to be Riding (Junior), Archery (Cadette), Paddling (Senior), and honest and fair Ultimate Recreation Challenge (Ambassador). friendly and helpful, Be sure to take a look at our Activity Guides, which are full of considerate and caring, new, fun and challenging programs and activities that take courageous and strong, place across the council. Attending these events is a great way for you to meet other girls in your area while earning badges, and responsible for what I say and do. learning more about the outdoors, creating jewelry, or thinking And to like an inventor, just to name a few opportunities. respect myself and others, And don’t forget about the Girl Scout Cookie and Fall Nuts and respect authority, Candy programs. By participating in these two programs, you use resources wisely, will learn a lot of great business skills and earn credits to pay for make the world a better place, all of the fun Girl Scout experiences you’ve got your eye on. and be a sister to every Girl scout. Part of the Girl Scout Law is to “make the world a better place”. As a Juliette, you can work on individual community service and Take Action projects, or you can team up with other Girl Scouts to carry out this Girl Scout tradition.

You get to choose how you want to plan your Girl Scout year of adventures! I can’t wait to hear about your Girl Scout experiences and I’d like to invite you to stop by any time you’re at the Wichita office to share your stories with me.

Liz Workman Chief Executive Officer

3 Why “Juliette”? We call individual girl members “Juliettes” in honor of our founder, .

Born in Savannah, Georgia, on October 31, 1860, Juliette Gordon Low, or “Daisy” as she was fondly called, spent her early life in the South as a member of a socially and financially elite family. After the death of her husband, Low met Lord and Lady Baden-Powell, the founders of the , which inspired her to create Girl Scouts of USA.

About Girl Scouts Girl Scouts prepares girls for life and has been doing so for more than 100 years! When you participate in Girl Scouts, you join a fellowship of approximately 2.8 million girls and adults in the United States (10 million in the worldwide movement)! Girl Scouts will help you discover the fun, friendship, and the power of girls together.

Founded in 1912 by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah, Georgia, Girl Scouts is a non-profit organization chartered by the United States Congress. Based on sound ethical values, The Girl Scout Promise and the Girl Scout Law are the guiding principles upon which Girl Scouts is founded.

You will be part of a girl-led, girl-only organization where you have a chance to make decisions and shape your own experiences. Our mission is to build girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place. Our goal is to create a society in which every girl has the opportunity to achieve her leadership potential. Our distinguished alumnae are proof of our leadership development program! Consider this...

• 80% of women business owners were Girl Scouts • 69% of female U.S. Senators and 67% of U.S. Representatives were Girl Scouts • Virtually every female astronaut who has flown in outer space was a Girl Scout

4 What program level is for me?

Becoming a Juliette can help you continue your own personal leadership adventure!

“ rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.” -Juliette Gordon Low

5 Uniforms & Insignia The Girl Scout uniform is completely optional. A girl doesn’t need to have a uniform to be a member of Girl Scouts.

Uniforms are available for purchase at the council shop. You can find information explaining the uniform and where to place insignia by visiting girlscouts.org, choose “Our Program” and “Where to Place”.

To shop for your uniform, insignias, and badges visit our website kansasgirlscouts.org and choose “SHOP” at the upper right corner of you screen, or go to girlscoutshop.com/KANSAS-HEARTLAND-COUNCIL.

While there are many parts to the uniform (including clothing options), girls may just wear the sash, vest, or tunic over regular clothing, while the formal uniform includes white shirt, khaki pants and vest, tunic or sash.

DISCOVER + CONNECT + TAKE ACTION = Leadership

• DISCOVER your special • CONNECT with others, which • TAKE ACTION to make the skills and talents, find the mean you’ll learn how to team world a better place, and learn confidence to set challenging up, solve conflicts, and have a lot about your community goals for yourself, and strive healthy relationships. These and the world along the way. to live by your values. This skills help you in school right includes being proud of where now and will prepare you for you came from as well as any career you choose in the where you’re going. future. 6 Ways to participate

Camp Programs with a focus on the out-of-doors and/ or environmental education. Make camp a special part of your summer and choose from our camps; Starwoods, Double E, or Four Winds!

Events One-day activities where you can explore your current interests and discover new ones! Council-sponsored activities are designed to enhance the Girl Scout experience and are developed for specific grade levels. They include: STEM, financial literacy, healthy living, Product Sales environmental and outdoor, and arts and culture Teach girls about goal setting, decision making, type events. money management, people skills and business ethics. Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland offers two Each year, Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland annual product programs; Fall Opportunity Sale (GSKH) print two Activity Guides one for FALL/ and Girl Scout Cookie Sale. SPRING and one for SUMMER events. The events Community Service Projects- part of the Girl listed in these Activity Guides are also published Scout Law is to “make the world a better place.” on our website. They include a list of upcoming Juliettes can work on their own or with their Girl events, series, travel, and camp opportunities. Scout community to carry out this Girl Scout tradition. Travel From the field trips to global adventures, if you Awards love exploring different places and cultures, then Review available awards for your level and see Girl Scouts is the place for you! Plan, earn money, how you can earn them! prepare, and participate in regional, national, and international trips. Badges Complete the requirements for the badges available at your level and purchase them from the Council’s Girl Scout Shop.

7 My Juliette Journey

My Council and Service Unit are:

My ideas and interests, what I want to explore as a Juliette:

What I hope to discover as a Juliette:

How I hope to make the world a better place - community service project:

8 My Juliette Story

My Journeys

My badges

My awards Project name Date submitted Date awarded

Bronze Award

Silver Award

Gold Award

My events and camps

My community service projects

9 Council Structure

Service Unit (SU) Council Level

As a Girl Scout member you are part of a Girl There are 112 Girl Scout councils in the United Scout Service Unit. States. The staff at each local Girl Scout council coordinates and provides services for girls and A service unit is designed to serve the Girl Scouts volunteers. Each council staff person relies on a within one large community or several smaller network of volunteers to serve both girls and the communities together. A service unit consists adults who work with them. of a team of adult volunteers that provide direct support to the girls and adults within their • Your local council is: Girl Scouts of Kansas area. This team meets with local volunteers to Heartland exchange ideas, present program resources • The website is: kansasgirlscouts.org and trainings and share council programming opportunities. Currently we serve approximately 15,000 girl and adult members in 80 counties. The council relies heavily on our valuable volunteers to provide an exceptional Girl Scout experience.

serving 80 counties

Cheyenne Rawlins Decatur Norton Phillips Smith Jewell Republic 104 202 201 Cloud Sherman Thomas Sheridan Graham Rooks Osborne Mitchell 102 101 105 Ottawa Lincoln Wallace Logan Gove Trego Ellis Russell 203 Dickinson 109 Hays 112 Saline Ellsworth Morris Osage 207 Lyon Greeley Wichita Scott Lane Ness Rush Barton Salina 209 McPherson Marion 103 Rice Chase Emporia 111 204 Pawnee 205 208 Coffey Hamilton Kearny Finney Hodgeman Stafford Reno Harvey 106 Greenwood 418 Woodson Allen Garden City Butler Ford Edwards 416 Sedgwick 211 Pratt 412 Wilson Neosho Stanton Grant Haskell 110 Kiowa Kingman Wichita Gray Elk 107 113 212 Meade Clark Barber Sumner Cowley Morton Stevens Seward Comanche Harper Labette Chautauqua 115 405 213 214 108 Montgomery

Regional Offices Shaded Area = Service Unit

10 The Girl Scout Year at a Glance

The Girl Scout membership year begins on October 1, and runs through September 30. As you begin your planning, here are some of the important calendar items to keep in mind:

October 1 • First day of the new Girl Scout membership year

October 31 • Founder’s Day/ Juliette Gordon Low’s birthday

Early Fall • Annual Fall Opportunity Sale (nuts, candy, and magazines)

December 15 • Cookie Credits expire

January-March • Annual Girl Scout Cookie Sale

February 22 • World Thinking Day

March • Girl Scout week (begins the Sunday before March 12 through the following Saturday)

March 12 • Girl Scout Birthday

April 15 • Cookie Credits available

April-May • Early Bird registration available

April (third week) • Volunteer Appreciation Week

April 22 • Leader’s Day

May-June • Bridging or End of the Year Ceremony

June 30 • Early Bird registration deadline (for upcoming membership year)

For more information contact at 1-888-686-MINT (6468) or visit our website at kansasgirlscouts.org

Please keep us updated on your contact information.

11 Important Links

Badges • kansasgirlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/our-program/ badges.html • forgirls.girlscouts.org/badges Council Cares kansasgirlscouts.org/en/our-council/costs/council-cares.html

Destinations girlscouts.org Events kansasgirlscouts.org/en/events/event-list.html Forms and documents kansasgirlscouts.org/en/our-council/forms---documents.html

Girl Scouts of Kansas Heartland kansasgirlscouts.org Girl Scouts USA girlscouts.org High Awards kansasgirlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/our-program/highest- awards.html

Journeys kansasgirlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/our-program/ journeys.html Other Girls Awards kansasgirlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/our-program/other- girl-awards.html Product Sales kansasgirlscouts.org/en/cookies/about-girl-scout-cookies.html Program Levels kansasgirlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/our-program/grade- levels.html Registration kansasgirlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/join.html Scholarships kansasgirlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/our-program/ scholarships.html Shop girlscoutshop.com/KANSAS-HEARTLAND-COUNCIL Travel kansasgirlscouts.org/en/about-girl-scouts/our-program/gskh- travel.html Uniforms and insignias by levels girlscouts.org/program/basics/for_volunteers/where_to_place/ Update on local office hours kansasgirlscouts.org/en/our-council/about-us/locations.html