Girl Scouts

Girl Scouts is the world's largest organization dedicated to empowering girls to be leaders. In partnership with adult volunteers, girls develop leadership skills, strong values, social conscience, and conviction about their own potential and self-worth.

Transitions

This program contributes to the healthy transition of juvenile girls in Gardner Betts residential detention facility back to society. Transitions provides girls with mentors and the benefits of Girl Scouting through troop meetings to reduce their chance of recidivism.

This opportunity is for women only.

Enterprising Girl Scouts Beyond Bars

Enterprising Girl Scouts Beyond Bars (EGSBB) is a uniquely targeted Girl Scout Troop comprised of girls whose mothers are incarcerated. EGSBB seeks to break the cycle of incarceration by giving girls the opportunity to increase their self-confidence and build character through bi-monthly Girl Scout troop meetings, therapeutic interventions provided by partnering agencies, and monthly visits with their mothers.

EGSBB provides daughters of incarcerated mothers with the hope and skills they need to make better choices, lessens the trauma that comes with their separation, and enables the girls and moms to continue or build a necessary mother/daughter bond. Once mothers are released from prison, they receive additional services to help them become self-sufficient.

This opportunity is for women only.