baby Camp Baby Camp is a weekend experience for pregnant and/or parenting teen moms and their children. The program is an opportunity to give pregnant and parenting teens tools in caring for their children, while giving them skills to create better lives for themselves. In April, 40 registered moms and 30 children under the age of five participated in this program. Baby Camp provides resources to help girls gain access to medical care (physical/ mental) for themselves and their babies, finish high school, find a job, and adequate daycare. Good health is both mental and physical, and Baby Camp strives to accomplish both.
FBI Director Robert Mueller presents GSACPC’s Barb Strachan with the Community Leadership Award.
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Girl Scouts–Arizona Cactus-Pine Council’s Adelante Jovencitas program receives the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. On March 25, 2011, representatives of the Girl Scouts–Arizona Cactus-Pine Council (GSACPC) were in Washington, D.C. to receive the FBI Director’s Community Leadership Award. The award recognizes the continuing work of the Adelante Jovencitas program, which brings the leadership experience of Girl Scouting to girls between the ages of 13 - 17 who are in the juvenile justice system or are at risk of delinquency. Specifically, the program helps girls struggling with education, health issues, homelessness, violence and crime, substance abuse, sexual exploitation (prostitution), and gang affiliation, providing them with the tools necessary to break these dangerous cycles.
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To learn more about Adelante Jovencitas and the other JustUs Social Justice Programs at the Girl Scouts, follow this link: www.girlscoutsaz.org/just-us-social-justice-program
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Adelante Jovencitas (Spanish for “young women moving forward”) is part of GSACPC’s Just Us - Social Justice Programs. Barb Strachan, the Program Manager for Adelante Jovencitas accepted the award on the council’s behalf.