Patch: Families Make Girls Grow Strong

AGE LEVEL: Brownies - Seniors

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION: To encourage and motivate parents/adults to actively participate in and support the troop, to promote girl/adult partnership in troops and to encourage active participation of individually registered girls and their parents or special adults.

PATCH REQUIREMENTS:

1. The adult/parent and girl participated in a troop or Service Unit activity, which the girls have had an active part in planning, coordinating and carrying out. (Examples: an investiture, bridging or awards ceremony, an extra fund raiser, a picnic, play, project or event.)
    
2. Girl shares with family/adult friend or guardian what it's like for her to be a Girl Scout by talking about one of the seven following ways in which she has not shared before.
   • The meaning of the Girl Scout Promise.
      
   • Five ways to apply the Girl Scout law in her daily life.
      
   • Describe one important day in Girl Scouts and tell three reasons why it is important: Juliette Low's birthday, Thinking Day, Girl Scout Week, etc.
      
   • Highlights of troop meetings for a month.
      
   • What happens to troop cookie sale profits (and troop dues if any).
      
   • Tell about a service project that the troop is participating in and share how it has helped you look or feel differently about the world you live in.
      
   • Share a special knowledge, skill or experience gained in completeing a Try-It, Badge, or Interest Project.

3. Adult shares by performing service for the troop in any one of the following ways: 
   • Be either a leader, co-leader or assistant leader, troop committee member, cookie manager or troop first aider.

     -OR-

   • Hold a position in the Service Team for the Service Unit (Service Unit Manager, Consultant, Organizer, Service Unit Cookie Chair, Council Trainer, Registrar, Treasurer, Day Camp Director or Day Camp staff) for the entire length of the Day Camp.

   -OR-

   • Perform a service on at least four occasions during the membership year. Services may include any four of the following:
     
     • Provide transportation for troop outings/trips.
        
     • Assist in troop projects, activities, or troop meetings.
        
     • Assist in record keeping (funds, badges or other paperwork).
        
     • Share a skill, talent, hobby or career with the troop, several troops or with Service Unit volunteers.
        
     • Accompany the troop on an outdoor activity.
        
     • Assist at day camp during the summer.
        
     • Assist in a Service Unit or Council sponsored event.
        
     • Attend a parent meeting.
        
     • Do telephoning for the troop.
        
     • Locate resource people for the troop program.
        
     • Care for troop leader's children during a training or troop function.
        
     • Contribute/support the council giving program.
        
     • Attend leader's meeting in your Service Unit when troop leaders cannot attend.
        
     • Take a council sponsored training course to help troop with weekly program (i.e., outdoor education, first aid, program trainings).

For adults with more than one girl registered in Girl Scouting, any of the above four (4) services performed with any troop involved, will entitle all registered siblings (who are also working on the requirements) to receive a patch. Leaders and daughters can earn this patch too. Earn a year bar for every year you complete the patch requirements.

Girls who are registered individually may want to contact their Service Unit Manager or Individual Girl Member Coordinator to help process this patch.

PURCHASE PATCHES: Patches can be ordered through the GSWW store.

QUESTIONS: Contact your local regional office.