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Community Service
Community Service is one of the core values of Girl Scouting. Volunteers and Girl Scouts of all ages are encouraged to participate in service projects that will have a real impact on their communities. Girls can choose projects that reflect their own interests, large or small, and work as individuals or as a group. It is especially important for all adult volunteers to coach girls on identifying local needs they care about and guide girls in reflecting on what they're learning. To apply the Discover, Connect, and Take Action keys, volunteers ensure that girls develop leadership values and skills while reaching out to others. By continuing our long tradition of helping others, we can fulfill the Girl Scout mission in a visible way in our communities.
- Download a basic hour log for girls to track hours
- Go to the Forms page to download the Troop Finance Report, which includes a community service hour log for Troops
- Always check the Safety Activity Checkpoints to follow safety guidelines for your service activities.
Community Service Opportunities
Project Undercover
Participate in Girl Scouts of Greater South Texas's annual service project, the collection of new underwear, socks, and diapers for children in the care of the Texas Department of Family Protective Services. This service project takes place each year in the month of October. Visit the patch programs webpage to see the patch for this project.
Keep Texas Beautiful
Keep Texas Beautiful's Youth Patch program offers patches for youth who participate in Great American Clean-up, America Reycles Day, or other Keep Texas Beautiful programs. Patches available for sale directly from keep Texas Beautiful.
Patch Programs
|This is the official Girl Scouts of Greater South Texas council patch, designed by Alicia Garza of Troop 1011 in 2007 when Girl Scouts Tip of Texas and Girl Scouts Paisano Councils merged to form GSGST. This is a fun patch, and there are no requirements to earn it.
Scouting Around GSGST is a patch with a center piece and five separate rockers. This patch encourages girls to explore and experience the history and culture of the five regions where Girl Scouts of Greater South Texas has service centers.
Click on the names of regions below to see the requirements for each rocker:
Project Undercover is the council's annual community service project conducted in October of each year and culminating on Make a Difference Day. The project benefits children in the care of Texas Department of Family Protective Services by collecint donations of an often overlooked necessity - underclothing. Donations of underwear, diapers, socks, etc., are collected and donated to local DFPS locations.
Click here to see the most recent information, tally sheet, and DFPS location flier.
There are worlds of fun waiting in the Journey programs, and now there's a great way for girls and volunteers to jump into the leadership activities designed to boost girls' confidence, help them become resourceful problem solvers, develop healthy relationships, and much more!
Jump to Journey Check-out Kits are available in all service centers. Check-Out kits have supplies necessary to complete one requirement of the Jump to Journeys patch program—the Journey Taster activities. Leave a $25 deposit at the council to check out the box, and then return the box with all supplies inside to have your deposit returned to you.
Click here to see all of the patch requirements.
Making dreams a reality begins with knowing how to manage your money. Living where you want, driving the car you love, starting a family, and traveling around the world, are possible for every girl who learns to manage her finances. Wells Fargo has the tools and resources to teach all girls how to develop their financial literacy. From Daisies on up to Ambassadors, the Wells Fargo Financial Literacy program will get Girl Scouts excited about learning how to manage a budget and save for the future.
The GSGST Book Lovers' Club patch program goal is to inspire girls' passion for reading, so they can enjoy the benefits of being an active reader, including enhanced critical thinking, empathy, imagination, and focus.
Click to see the patch requirements.
The Green Mountain Energy Sun Club Patch Program is designed to allow girls to DISCOVER what solar energy is; CONNECT the importance of solar energy with their lives and the lives of other people and the planet; and to TAKE ACTION with what they've learned to use solar energy as a renewable and pollution-free resource. The first 8,750 patches have been provided free of cost to Girl Scouts by Green Mountain Energy.
Click here to see the patch requirements.
The PALS Animal Shelter (Corpus Christi) patch program was developed by Troop 9851 as part of their Girl Scout Silver Award project. Click below for the requirements for each program level to complete the patch program:
Not from the Corpus Christi area? These requirements can be used for your local shelter, and girls can receive a fun patch such as the ones found at http://www.girlscoutshop.com/Make-A-Difference.
Beach and Bay the Gulf Coast Way is a patch program developed by Mary Hediger for her Girl Scout Silver Award. Click below for the requirements for each program level:
This patch is earned by proud Dads of Girl Scouts.
Click here to see the requirements to earn the Do-Dad patch.
|Girl Scouts is a member organization of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts, which offers a number of patch programs, including the one on the left, the Global Action Theme badge. Click on the badge to learn about this and other patch programs, including World Thinking Day, Climate Change, Games go Global patches, and more!
Images of girls and women in the media are of great interest to girls today. Girl Scouts of the USA, in partnership with the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) and Dove, has launched Free Being Me,a leadership initiative focused on helping girls better understand global definitions of beauty, define beauty for themselves and boost their self-confidence in the process. This program helps girls understand from a global perspective that a greater diversity of beauty exists and give them opportunity to take action to promote this diversity to girls locally and globally. Importantly, Free Being Me can be used to introduce or enhance girls' experiences along the It's Your Story - Tell It! leadership Journey series.
Download the patch requirements here.
|Religious Awards are designed to help girls grow in their faith. These patch programs are developed and maintained by faith and religious organizations. Click on the poster at left to see Religious Awards resources available from the community at PRAY Publishing.
|Keep Texas Beautiful is an organization dedicated to beautifying and improving community environments. Click on the patch on the left to see the patches that are available to Girl Scouts for participating in Keep Texas Beautiful activities.
|Heart For the Homeless is a patch available through Bridge Communities, a non-profit striving to transition homeless families into affordable housing. This patch program teaches awareness of homelessness with activities in a free downloadable curriculum. Click on the patch on the left to follow a link to more information.
Summer Camp
An Experience to Remember: Camp
Registration is open for Summer Camp 2015!
Click here to download the Camper Registration Packet!
English-Spanish Campership Request Form
Join us at our Camp Open House on June 6, 2015!
Meet the camp staff, tour the camp facility, see the rooms, and try out some fun camp activities at this free event. Then get registered for the session of your choice!
Click here to open the Camp Open House flier for more details!
Interested in being summer camp volunteer staff? We need caring, enthusiastic, responsible volunteers!
Adult Volunteer Information(for adults 18 and over)
Camp Counselor Information(for girls who have completed grades 9-12)
What does camp do for girls?
Camp programs encourage girls to develop independence, self-reliance, outdoor living skills, problem solving, and community living skills. In an outdoor environment, under the supervision of supportive adults, girls take responsibility for their daily tasks, ranging from keeping a clean living area to preparing dinner in the outdoors. Camp programs build girls' self-confidence and teach them to overcome challenges.
Girl Scouts of Greater South Texas offers day-only, one-night, weekend, and resident camp programs so that girls use progression to build their comfort with camping.
Look for day, weekend, and week-long camp opportunities in the In Motion Program Guide by cilcking here.
Where do we camp?
Girl Scouts of Greater South Texas has two beautiful camps, Camp Bayview near Los Fresnos, and Camp Green Hill near Mathis. As girls develop their camping skills, they can explore other camp locations such as state parks, independent camp sites, national parks, and other approved locations.