Planning Tools & Training
Help your Girl Scouts complete badge activities, improve their communities, and explore the world around them. Utilize these tools and trainings to help you plan your Troop meetings.
Meeting Resources
Check out important documents and tip sheets, safety guidelines, conflict management tools, earning awards, and so much more.
Helpful Documents & More 
Meeting & Activity Safety
Nothing is more important than ensuring the health and safety of girls, whether they’re engaged in a real-world activity or exploring online.
At Girl Scouts, we work hard to build safety consciousness in adults, training staff, volunteers, and girls on all safety protocols so that we can ensure proper supervision, prevent accidents and incidents, and maintain program resources.
GSMW does not allow troop meetings to be held in private homes. If you need assistance finding a meeting location, please contact your regional Member Experience Manager or Customer Care.
When preparing for any activity with girls:
- Begin with reviewing the Safety section of Volunteer Essentials,
- Review the Safety Activity Checkpoints written for that particular activity
- When necessary, have girls and caregivers complete the Internet Safety Pledge Form
When necessary, obtain Additional Activity Insurance*
*Additional insurance is no longer required for domestic Girl Scout trips and activities. If your group wants optional sickness insurance, or you are traveling internationally, submit the Additional Insurance Form no later than 14 days before your trip.
Girl Scout Traditions
"No Prob-Llama" Conflict Management Guide
Conflict Management Tools
Conflicts and disagreements are part of life, but if handled constructively, they show girls that they can overcome their differences, exercise diplomacy, and improve their communication and relationships.
As a Girl Scout Troop Leader and role model, you are in a great position to help girls learn how to have healthy relationships. This is a good time for Girl Scouts to practice being respectful and kind. Girl Scouts finds its foundation and principles in the Girl Scout Promise and Law to help girls make decisions or relate to one another.
If you need additional support related to bullying and conflict in your troop, please contact your MEM (Membership Experience Manager).
Utilize the following program materials to set expectations within the troop environment.
A Girl Code of Conduct Agreement and No Bullies Troop Pledge are included in these resources. Have girls and caregivers sign and revisit them at the beginning of each Girl Scout membership year.
Highest Awards Resources
Highest Awards
Are the Girl Scouts in your troop looking to complete the Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards?
- Daisies and Brownies learn the basics of what it means to be a good neighbor and how they can help others. This gives them the foundation they'll need to earn the Bronze Award.
- Juniors earn the Bronze Award by teaming up with other Girl Scouts to make a difference in their communities.
- Cadettes earn the Silver Award by researching an issue, making a plan to address it, and then taking action to improve their communities.
- Seniors and Ambassadors earn the Gold Award, the highest award in Girl Scouting, by developing and carrying out lasting solutions to issues in their neighborhoods and beyond.
Highest Award Prerequisites
One award leads to the next, see how in the
Highest Awards Prerequisites overview.
The new Leadership Awards include flexible options that allow girls to explore and shape their own leadership style. The bonus—they’re part of an expanded set of options to fulfill the prerequisite toward earning Girl Scouting’s Highest Awards.
Earned Leadership Awards
Let us know if you have Girl Scouts that have earned Leadership Awards. This helps us keep track of accomplishments made by Girl Scout's. You can also request a certificate and purchase their earned pin!
Online Meeting Resources
Volunteer Resources in MyGS
Many of your must-have tools, like gsLearn and the Volunteer Toolkit, are accessible when you log in to MyGS —always accessible via the icon on the upper right corner of our website.
Volunteer Toolkit (VTK)
gsLearn
