Girl Scouts - Rio Grande Chapter
Girl Scouting Builds Girls of Courage, Confidence & Character

Programs

Healthy Living Programming and Experiences

SwimmersEvery girl deserves to live a healthy life—both emotionally and physically. Whether they're working toward earning age-level awards such as the Eat Right, Stay Healthy Try-It or the Stress Less Badge, or talking with leaders or exploring issues of concern in their lives or in their communities, Girl Scouts builds the necessary skills to keep their bodies healthy, their minds engaged, and their spirits alive. Some of these programs include:

 

 

FITNESS & SPORTS

Girl Scouts Shape UP!

Created to encourage healthy nutrition and regular physical activity, the Girl Scouts Shape UP! participation patch encourages girls to live well and develop healthy habits. Girl Scouts of the Rio Grande has established partnerships with community parks and recreation departments, sports organizations, and schools and colleges for instruction and facilities.

GirlSports

The GirlSports program develops lifelong health and fitness habits, and has been successful in increasing girls' participation in sports nationally. A sports-readiness kit for Daisy and Brownie Girl Scouts teaches the basics of motor skills and agility, throwing, catching, volleying, batting, and more through a variety of activities.
Fit & Fun, a component of the Girl Scouts' GirlSports program, is for girls, ages 8 to 11. It has 10 different skill sets activity cards that focus on fair play, cooperation, and skill progression.

LIFE SKILLS AND SAFETY

In the Zone: Living Drug-Free

These Girl Scout booklets, funded in part by the Office of National Drug Control Policy, encourage girls to find their "zone" by living a positive, healthy, and drug-free life. The series also comes with an adult guide that provides advisors and parents with the tools they need to help keep their child drug-free.

Staying Safe for Girls Ages 4-17

Designed to help girls learn how to better ensure their personal safety, this series of books includes:

 

Upcoming events

Media Smart Youth
Does watching television make us fat? Not for a new generation of moms who are using their roles as Girl Scout leaders to teach young girls that being healthy is also about being media smart.

Media Smart Youth, a program funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, was designed to motivate young people to think about nutrition and physical activity and help them become aware of the connections between media and their health.
Find out how Girl Scout Troops 579, 95 and 866 became media savvy