Your Support Team

In your role as a Girl Scout volunteer, you may team up with co-volunteer(s), parents/guardians, identified Troop Committee members, members of the community, council staff members, and others who have expressed interest in working alongside you.

Your support team may help by:

• Filling in for you
• Arranging meeting places
• Being responsible for communicating with girls and parents/guardians
• Locating adults with special skills to facilitate a specialized meeting
• Assisting with trips and chaperoning
• Managing group records

If you have a large support team, the first thing you’ll want to do is meet with this group and discuss what brought you to Girl Scouts, review your strengths and skills, and talk about how you would like to work together as a team.

Also discuss:

• When important milestones will happen (when Girl Scout Cookie sales will happen, when a troop will take field trips, when a travel group will make its trip, when an event will happen, what the starting and ending dates for a series or for camp will be) and how long the planning process will take
• When and where to meet as a group, if necessary
• Whether, when, where, and how often to hold parent/guardian meetings
• Whether an advance trip to a destination, event site, or camp needs to happen

Remember to call on your volunteer support team, which can help you observe a meeting, assign you a buddy, help with registration forms, assist you with opening a bank account plan your first meeting, and so on.  Click here for forms needed to open your Girl Scout Troop Account.  Also plan to attend support meetings or Service Unit Meetings—usually held several times throughout the year—that provide excellent opportunities to learn from other volunteers.

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