Community Engagement

Continuing our efforts to address diversity, equity, and inclusion, we established a Community Engagement department with a core focus on serving girls in under-resourced and emerging communities within our jurisdiction. This department’s initiatives included providing staff-led Girl Scouting opportunities throughout the school year during lunch hours and after school, as well as program activities during summer months with our Celebrate Girls Summer Program and other collaborations with city recreation departments.

• 1,002 girls were introduced to Girl Scouting

• 649 girls participated in school programs

• 353 girls participated in summer programs

We also introduced Girl Scouts Lead, a 12-week Community Engagement program that helps girls engage in the Girl Scout Leadership Experience with a special focus on learning how businesses can help others, exploring STEM careers, discovering how to stand against racism and pledge to work for a just society, practicing mental wellness, creating positive change in the community, and more.

Celebrate Girls Summer Program

At our Celebrate Girls Summer Program in Paterson, we served 127 girls during seven one-week sessions held in July and August. Activities included outdoor games, nature walks, sports, swimming, arts and crafts, drama, dance, hands-on science activities, book club, and earning Girl Scout Badges. Weekly field trips on Wednesdays were to Urban Air, NY Aquarium, a Broadway Show, Jenkinson’s Aquarium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the American Dream, Museum of Natural History, and Liberty Science Center. Weekly field trips to Lake Rickabear Camp in Kinnelon were held every Friday.