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Click here if you are a returning volunteer.

Specific Ways to Volunteer

New Volunteer Online Orientation

New volunteers/mentors are required to complete the following courses while you are waiting for your application to be approved and prior to meeting with your group.

Girl Scouting 101 gives new Girl Scout volunteers an overview of the organization and the basics on working with girls of all ages. Hosted by Sophia (from the GSLE Overview, aka “Ask Sophia”), the vibrant, interactive orientation combines and streamlines the information currently contained in the online volunteer orientation, Leadership Essentials online, and the GSLE Overview/Ask Sophia.

What does Girl Scouting 101 cover?
Girl Scouting 101 is broken down into eight parts:
   - About Girl Scouts (the basics)
   - Ways to Participate (The flixible options - troop, camp, series, event, virtual and travel
        pathways, plus direct and indirect volunteering,)
   - What Girl Scouts Do (GSLE, journeys, Girl's Guides, Bronze/Silver/Gold Awards)
   - Misson, Promise, and Law
   - Girl Scout Cookies
   - Staying Safe (the Girl Scout's Safety Standards)
   - Ages and Stages: What Girl Scouts Are Like (girl development for each grade level)
   - What's Next (what will happen to the answers they submit via learning log; how to move
         forward with their local councils; how they are supported)

Girl Scouting 101:
1.Make sure to write down the password: aboutGS101
2.Click here to take the course. (English & Espanol)

Series and Event Pathway Volunteers
If you are a Series and/or Event Pathway volunteer, please take the following course.

Series and Event Pathway:
1. Make sure to write down the password: volunteer
2. Click here to take the course. (English & Espanol)

Different Areas To Volunteer

 Troops

Through the troop experience, girls grow together in Girl Scouts. Troop leaders and assistant leaders provide the leadership to help girls grow – by organizing trips, cookie sales, community service projects and a host of other troop opportunities.

Events

Events and Programs are planned year round throughout the council area. They can be local, regional, or council-wide events. Some of the events are planned by the council while others are planned by troops, service units or districts. Whether it is planning an event or just volunteering at one events are a great way for volunteers who want to only volunteer once in a while.

Camp

Summer camps and outdoor education is a big part of Girl Scouts today. Every spring and summer, GS-West hosts resident and day camps at various locations throughout our 39-county service area. Volunteers are often needed for these programs.

Series

The Series pathway gives girls the opportunity to do something that interests them for a short period of time. Girls participate in a series of programs with the same group of girls relating to a specific theme or purpose. Volunteers are always needed to help the High Adventure team and teach girls about Science just to name a few.

Travel

The travel pathway is a girls chance to explore new places and cultures, sample food and languages, and be the person they aspire to be. Girls can Discover their inner strength, values and new skills as they look at the world from a different point of view. Travel can be across the world or across the state. Volunteers are always needed to plan trips, go on trips or even offer advice on locations.

GO Rock! The School

GS-West offers volunteers a new way to serve girls through our program during school hours. We offer a planned curriculum at area public schools during the school day. Volunteers work with staff to present this curriculum on leadership and self-esteem – in some cases just two hours a month is all that is required.

GO Rock! The Community Programs

GS-West is leading the nation in offering unique community programs for girls – and we need volunteers for these individual programs.

• Central Oklahoma Juvenile Center (COJC) – This is a medium secure treatment center for JuvenileDelinquents and Youthful Offenders. 
• Fort Reno Adolescent Center (FRAC) – This is a minimum secure substance abuse treatment center for Juvenile Delinquents.
• Oklahoma County Juvenile Bureau (OCJB) – We are working with County Level Juvenile Probation Services to deliver Survival Skills to Young Women.
• Emerson Alternative High School – We work in both areas this school is divided into. We meet with pregnant teens and teen mothers once a week in the Outreach Program and teach a daily leadership class for the teen girls in the Metro Program.
• Metro Tech Alternative High School – We plan to deliver the Girl Scout Leadership Experience to students through a mentorship program.
• Oklahoma Housing Authority – We currently work in 5 government housing communities where we provide girls with activities in the early evenings on a weekly basis.
• YMCA After School Program – We work with the YMCA in 8 different locations to provide girls with activities on a weekly or bi-weekly schedule. 
• Oklahoma City Rescue Mission – We meet with girls whose families are staying in the shelter and provide the girls with activities on a bi-weekly schedule.

Cookies

Perhaps one of the best known Girl Scouts activities is the annual cookie sale. Each year, we need volunteers to help us deliver cookies, organize cookie booth sales, or even work in the administrative area. There are lots of ways to volunteer during this extremely busy time of year. We also sell candy, nuts and magazines in the fall and need volunteers for this program as well.

Administrative

Organizing all these events for more than 12,000 girls is a daunting task. If your skills include administrative responsibilities, we can always use more volunteers in our Council offices.

Do you have a Volunteer Need? Fill the form out below.