Adult Learning
Download the 2013 Leaders' Weekend
Registration Packet
To be held September 27-29, 2013 at Camp Kaufmann
If you become a Girl Scout of Greater New York volunteer, we thank you for your caring and generosity of girls. To help you be the best volunteer you can be, we offer training courses to help you partner with girls to implement programs that are girl-directed, creative, fun and safe.
It's easy to become a volunteer!
- Fill out this volunteer application.
- Once we have received your application, we will work to connect you to opportunities in your area.
- We’ll provide information about our background clearance process, training and start-up.
- Complete your background clearance and training as soon as possible to start participating in your assigned role.
Adult learning opportunities and resources can be found on this page. There are online courses as well as face to face classes; registration for classes is available online. Please click HERE for the Spring/Summer training calendar. If you have more questions, please read our Questions and Answers section.
- 001 Getting Started: a 3-hour orientation required of all new leaders, this course should be taken in the borough in which you will be a troop/group leader or co-leader. It focuses on Council procedures, troop start-up plans and troop programs.
- Leadership Essentials(LE): a 3-hour follow-up to Getting Started, this is for all new leaders and should be taken within one year of Getting Started. We have revamped LE to include both LE training and age level training. In the age level specific activities; leaders will learn how to facilitate activities to be “girl-led” with an emphasis is on “learning by doing.” In addition, leaders will learn about the characteristics of the grade level girls they will be working with as well as how to manage a troop. To register fill out this form.
- Overnight Adventures and Beyond: This course is mandatory for all leaders participating in any overnight trip or sleepover. It has been designed to prepare leaders for all overnight trips; long and short term. In addition, the course will cover troop trip progression, planning for various overnight facilities, girl planning, emergency procedures, safety tips etc. This course is a prerequisite for the Great Outdoors.
- The Great Outdoors (Prerequisite: Overnight Adventures and Beyond): The course prepared leaders for hands-on-tent camping and various outdoor cooking methods as well as answer an array of questions to help manage your camp weekend in the most efficient and effective way. Participants must attend the full weekend at Camp Kaufmann in order to complete Camp Certification. Note: The new curriculum allows participants to bring their registered daughters (3rd grade Brownies and up) with them during the Great Outdoor training at camp. Participants will arrive with their daughters on Friday night for a meet and greet with Camp Staff. Saturday and Sunday the girls will be supervised and participate in fun-filled activities with camp staff while the mom's engage in outdoor training. Mothers will be able to bunk with their daughters at night.
- First Aid Safety and Community CPR: In this comprehensive course participants will learn how to identify and care for a variety of medical emergencies. Participants will also learn how to reduce the risk of injury or death by properly identifying breathing and cardiac emergencies and administrating the appropriate CPR measures for adult, child victims. Instructors are volunteer Girl Scout Trainers certified by either the American Red Cross or American Heart Association to deliver the appropriate corresponding curriculum.
How to Register
Register for any of these courses by sending an email to training@girlscoutsnyc,org.
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We're so grateful to all of our 100th Anniversary Bridge Crossing exhibitors, but especially the ones there from the very beginning: Madame Tussauds New York, American Kennel Club, New-York Historical Society. Some are long-standing partners like Madame Tussauds and AKC which offer events for Girl Scouts from year to year and some are new like the New York Historical Society. Check them out before the event so you can be most ready to interact with them: http://www.madametussauds.com/newyork/default.aspx http://www.akc.org/ http://www.nyhistory.org/
Over 250 volunteers came together on April 27th to honor and celebrate our outstanding volunteers and community partners.
Tomorrow's the last opportunity to register in person for the Bridge Crossing on June 2! If you haven't registered yet, come by our 23rd St office. Have you gotten your shirt and badge yet?
One of our Bronx Girl Scouts, Tiffany, at this Saturday's celebration of GSGNY's 100th anniversary at Yankee Stadium.
LAST DAY FOR COOKIES! Visit a Cookie Cupboard location today to stock up before the fall. Thank you to everyone who supports the Girl Scout Cookie Program every year. Girl Scout Cookies Pop-Up Shops in each of the five boroughs are now open, and will continue through May 16, 2013, except for our Bronx location, which will close on Thursday May 9, 2013. www.girlscoutsnyc.org
Check out this wonderful piece about our 100th anniversary gala: http://causeceleb.newsvine.com/_news/2013/05/01/18001962-girl-scouts-of-greater-new-york-mean-more-than-just-cookies?lite Cause Celeb highlights a celebrity’s work on behalf of a specific cause. This week, Sandra Lee and Trish McEvoy talk about their work with Girl Scouts of Greater New York. 2012 marked Girl Scouts of America’s 100th anniversary, and this year The Girl Scouts of Gre … causeceleb.newsvine.com
One of our newest exhibitors for the Bridge Crossing that we're excited has decided to join us on June 2, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian has a free event this weekend that you should definitely consider checking out. The culture and traditions of Native Hawai’i reverberate during Aloha Days, Saturday May 18th & Sunday May 19th, 12 pm-5 pm at the National Museum of the American Indian in New York, located at 1 Bowling Green across from Battery Park. Performances and hula workshops will feature Hālau O ‘Aulani, a Hawaiian dance troupe. Kids will have the opportunity to stamp traditional kapa designs on a tote bag, make cloth leis, and kukui-nut bracelets. For more about the museum, visit http://nmai.si.edu/visit/newyork/ The National Museum of the American Indian–New York is located within the historic Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House. The museum’s permanent and temporary exhibitions—as well as a range of public programs, including music and dance performances, films, and symposia—explore the diversity of the Na... nmai.si.edu
Why does Caitlin from troop 6127 need Girl Scouts? *** To submit your own reason for "Why Girls Need Girl Scouting", simply copy the URL listed below into your browser, print out the document it contains and write in black marker - in no more than 6 words - why YOU need Girl Scouts! Then have your troop leader take a close-up of you holding the paper in front of your left shoulder and mail it to us at katrin@anatgerstein.com (include your name and troop #). Thanks for participating! http://www.girlscoutsnyc.org/uploaded/files/Girls/INeedGS.pdf
Catch-Up Cookie Campaign Form 2012-2013, 9 days ago
Did you have newly registered Girl Scouts that participated in the Catch-Up Cookie Campaign? Make sure you fill out the electronic form on our website - linked below - so they're eligible to receive rewards. Forms must be submitted by May 20th so complete it today. girlscoutsnyc.wufoo.com
LAST week for Girl Scout Cookies! Make your appointments now for our Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, or Staten Island Cookie Cupboard locations. Thursday, May 16th will be your last opportunity to get Girl Scout Cookies before the fall. Please note that troops must make appointments to pick up orders at the Cookie Cupboard. Troop Leaders must present bank deposit receipts - not cash - at time of order pick up to receive order. Specific Cupboard locations have specific guidelines that must be followed. www.girlscoutsnyc.org
This film featuring the honorees of our 100th Anniversary Gala, Renee Haugerud, Michelle Lee, Sandra Lee and Trish McEvoy and our New York City Girl Scouts includes five chapters: "100 Year Commitment," "Global Citizens," "The Sky is the Limit," "Making a Difference" and "Today's Girls, Tomorrow's Leaders."
To celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Girl Scouting in New York City, this film featuring Girl Scout Board President Rose Littlejohn, CEO Barbara Murphy-Warrington and our New York City Girl Scouts, includes highlights from our first 100 years and then focuses on the importance of "making the history of tomorrow" today.
Trish McEvoy, Founder and CEO, Trish McEvoy Beauty hosted Girl Scouts and Volunteers in her New York City Studio in April 2013.
Thank you for being a friend to New York City's 26, 658 Girl Scouts.
Michelle Y. Lee, Northeast Regional President, Wells Fargo Bank, hosts a group of Girl Scouts at the Wells Fargo Learning and Development Center for a "Hands-on-Banking" Financial Literacy Lesson and an inspirational Career Presentation.
Renee Haugerud, Founder and Chief Investment Officer, Galtere, hosts a troop of Brownie Girl Scouts in her offices and teaches them about global currency and the importance of being global citizens.
Sandra Lee, Childhood Hunger Advocate and Emmy and Gracie Award Winning TV Host with 300 Girl Scouts doing a park-clean up in Prospect Park, Brooklyn on April 6, 2013. Girl Scouts have made a 100 Year Commitment to keep this area of the park clean.
This webinar is designed for Alumnae, Parents, & Volunteers to get all of the info you need to lead girls in earning Girl Scouting's highest awards. Learn the requirements along with some interactive project planning activities to bring back to your girls.
As you may know, the Girl Scout Cookie Sale is the largest girl-led Business & Entrepreneurship program in the world. Through their cookie sales, Girl Scouts learn five essential skills that equip them to succeed in school, work and beyond: •Money Management •Decision Making •Goal Setting •People Skills •Business Ethics We have developed the Cookie University program as a way for girls to develop and build on these skills through engaging in fun, hands-on interactive activities centered around the Cookie Sale and learning from older girls, who have Cookie Sale experience, when possible. In Fall 2012, we launched our first-ever Cookie University and Cookie University Mentor Training. At Cookie University Mentor Training at ING Direct Café, Cadettes, Seniors and Ambassadors had the unique opportunity to learn from and engage with professionals from a range of fields such as Business, Finance, Marketing, Customer Service and Sales. They learned about these fields and what it takes to work in them successfully. They also gained invaluable firsthand knowledge and skills that they can apply to selling cookies and planning for their future careers. Girls also worked together to design a plan for sharing their newfound knowledge and skills with Brownies at our Cookie University. At Cookie University at The Cooper Union, Brownies learned from Cadettes, Seniors and Ambassadors about how to succeed in their cookie sales. The older girls taught and mentored the Brownies and shared the invaluable knowledge and skills they gained at their workshop and their own cookie sales experiences. Brownies developed and built on their knowledge and skill sets in the areas of Goal-Setting, Decision Making, Money Management, People Skills and Business Ethics. They "graduated" from Cookie University ready to tackle and excel in their entrepreneurial endeavors! In addition to offering these special initiatives, we have developed a Cookie University Mentor Training curriculum for Cadettes, Seniors and Ambassadors (go to www.girlscoutsnyc.org to download curricula) and this webinar to help teach you to use the curriculum. Webinars and curriculum are also available for Daisies and Brownies, to be used in conjunction with this training on www.girlscoutsnyc.org and our YouTube channel. These curricula are meant to serve as guides for Troop Leaders and Parents to offer the Cookie University program either to their troops at their troop meetings or for them, their Borough Program Committee and/or Service Unit to organize their own Multi-Troop, Borough-Wide or Service Unit events.
As you may know, the Girl Scout Cookie Sale is the largest girl-led Business & Entrepreneurship program in the world. Through their cookie sales, Girl Scouts learn five essential skills that equip them to succeed in school, work and beyond: •Money Management •Decision Making •Goal Setting •People Skills •Business Ethics We have developed the Cookie University program as a way for girls to develop and build on these skills through engaging in fun, hands-on interactive activities centered around the Cookie Sale and learning from older girls, who have Cookie Sale experience, when possible. In Fall 2012, we launched our first-ever Cookie University and Cookie University Mentor Training. At Cookie University Mentor Training at ING Direct Café, Cadettes, Seniors and Ambassadors had the unique opportunity to learn from and engage with professionals from a range of fields such as Business, Finance, Marketing, Customer Service and Sales. They learned about these fields and what it takes to work in them successfully. They also gained invaluable firsthand knowledge and skills that they can apply to selling cookies and planning for their future careers. Girls also worked together to design a plan for sharing their newfound knowledge and skills with Brownies at our Cookie University. At Cookie University at The Cooper Union, Brownies learned from Cadettes, Seniors and Ambassadors about how to succeed in their cookie sales. The older girls taught and mentored the Brownies and shared the invaluable knowledge and skills they gained at their workshop and their own cookie sales experiences. Brownies developed and built on their knowledge and skill sets in the areas of Goal-Setting, Decision Making, Money Management, People Skills and Business Ethics. They "graduated" from Cookie University ready to tackle and excel in their entrepreneurial endeavors! In addition to offering these special initiatives, we have developed a Cookie University curriculum for Brownies (go to www.girlscoutsnyc.org to download curricula) and this webinar to help teach you to use the curriculum. Webinars and curriculum are also available for Daisies and for the Cookie University Mentor Training for Cadettes, Seniors, and Ambassadors on www.girlscoutsnyc.org and our YouTube channel. These curricula are meant to serve as guides for Troop Leaders and Parents to offer the Cookie University program either to their troops at their troop meetings or for them, their Borough Program Committee and/or Service Unit to organize their own Multi-Troop, Borough-Wide or Service Unit events.