Volunteer Essentials & Safety Activity Checkpoints

Volunteer Essentials & Safety Activity Checkpoints

Volunteer Essentials and the Safety Activity Checkpoints replace Safety Wise.

As part of GSUSA's core business strategy Volunteer Essentials was created to make life easier for volunteers by creating fewer but more comprehensive resources that are user-friendly and easy to navigate. It contains the operational information that volunteers need to be effective. Volunteer Essentials is a resource written for volunteers serving in any pathway.

This resource:

• offers information about Girl Scouts as a movement and a tradition,
• asks volunteers to assess their own skills and competencies,
• discusses the GSLE and the journeys,
• highlights other program offerings,
• shares information about healthy development in girls,
• instructs volunteers in how to keep girls safe,
• gives information on taking trips and hosting events, and tells volunteers how to help girls manage group finances, including details on Girl Scout Cookie sales.

GSCSNJ has incorporated council specific information into Volunteer Essentials.

Volunteer Essentials

Safety Activity Checkpoints

Keeping girls safe is a priority in Girl Scouting. In the past, the way we have done so is by consulting Safety-Wise when planning outings and activities. We are pleased to introduce the new "Safety Activity Checkpoints". These 45 checkpoints replace the ones that have existed in Safety-Wise for the last several decades. You will no longer have to read introductory material, Universal Checkpoints, checkpoints for the category of the activity (land sports, water sports, and so on), and activity-specific checkpoints -- eight or nine pages of material spread out over several sections. Instead, you can read, search, and print completely self-contained checkpoints, each four pages or less.

Just click on the name of the activity you want information on, and off you go!

Safety Activity Checkpoints ALL Portfolio (You must have Adobe Reader 9 or above to use. This file may take a while to download.)
Archery
Arts & Crafts
Backpacking
Bicycling
Canoeing
Caving
Challenge Courses
Climbing & Replelling
Computer/Online Use
Cross Country Skiing
Downhill Skiing & Snowboarding
Fencing
Fishing
Geocaching
Girl Scout Cookies/Council Sponsored Product Sale
Group Camping
Hayrides
Hiking
Horseback Riding
Ice Fishing
Ice Skating
In-line Skating/Roller Skating
Kayaking
Orienteering
Other Land Sports
Outdoor Cooking
Parades & Other Large Group Gatherings
Playgrounds
Rowboating
Sailing
Scuba Diving
Segway
Skateboarding
Sledding. Tobogganing & Snow Tubing
Snorkeling
Snowshoeing
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math)
Surfing
Swimming
Theme Parks
Trip/Travel Camping
Tubing
Water Skiing & Wake Boarding
White-Water Rafting
Windsurfing