Orange county and GSOC resources
Going Gold In GSOC Orange County, CA. ?
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How will you TAKE ACTION ?
Choose your Issue
Use your values and skills to identify a community issue you care about as well as the root cause.
Need inspiration ? Ask yourself:
After each question I have a link to a real Gold Award project relating to it.
If you had 100 volunteers – where would you send them ? Sharleen-Issue - decline in STEM as kids age
What makes you cry or feel choked up when you hear about it ? What tugs at your heart?
Liza - lack of access to school for kids in the Philippines
What makes you indignant or outraged and you want to see it changed ? Mikayla_Issue - Environmental Pollution
Cassie - Child marriage laws Isabella Missing Indigenous Women
What do you see in your community that you wish someone would fix? Colette _Issue - college binge drinking
Where is your heart ? Lauren -Issue - Gap between special needs kids and the rest of the students
What is the thing you value most ? Evelyn - Issue cultural identity
What are your strengths ? What are your talents? How could they be used to make the world a better place?
Malia - Issue - lack of awareness of school dance program Aleece - lack of historical tours in Spanish
Is there something you have more knowledge or experience with than most people ? How could you expand on
that to educate people & advocate for change ? Madeline - Issue - lack of exposure to careers for low income youth
Alexandra - Issue - lack of understanding of foster care experience
What has happened to you that changed your life and you would like to pass it on? Sabrina - celiac disease
Fiona - Issue - dating violence
What would you tell your younger self ? Kayla - Issue - injuries at band camp
What do you wish you knew in elementary or middle school ? Renu - Issue -value of education
Who do you want to help? Kaitlyn - Issue - Sensory overload for students with autism Jordan - Issue - job seeking skills for adults
with autism Who do you know?
What are your resources?
Still stuck ?
Volunteer in your community or for an agency that supports something you care about. Start to observe ongoing issues that need to be resolved.
A good way to start is to ask what kind of things they need more people power to solve - not supplies they need, funds, things they need replaced, built or refurbished. They may need these things, but those would fall under the category of community service projects, short term solutions.
Click on the images below to see what other Girl Scouts have done
After each question I have a link to a real Gold Award project relating to it.
If you had 100 volunteers – where would you send them ? Sharleen-Issue - decline in STEM as kids age
What makes you cry or feel choked up when you hear about it ? What tugs at your heart?
Liza - lack of access to school for kids in the Philippines
What makes you indignant or outraged and you want to see it changed ? Mikayla_Issue - Environmental Pollution
Cassie - Child marriage laws Isabella Missing Indigenous Women
What do you see in your community that you wish someone would fix? Colette _Issue - college binge drinking
Where is your heart ? Lauren -Issue - Gap between special needs kids and the rest of the students
What is the thing you value most ? Evelyn - Issue cultural identity
What are your strengths ? What are your talents? How could they be used to make the world a better place?
Malia - Issue - lack of awareness of school dance program Aleece - lack of historical tours in Spanish
Is there something you have more knowledge or experience with than most people ? How could you expand on
that to educate people & advocate for change ? Madeline - Issue - lack of exposure to careers for low income youth
Alexandra - Issue - lack of understanding of foster care experience
What has happened to you that changed your life and you would like to pass it on? Sabrina - celiac disease
Fiona - Issue - dating violence
What would you tell your younger self ? Kayla - Issue - injuries at band camp
What do you wish you knew in elementary or middle school ? Renu - Issue -value of education
Who do you want to help? Kaitlyn - Issue - Sensory overload for students with autism Jordan - Issue - job seeking skills for adults
with autism Who do you know?
What are your resources?
Still stuck ?
Volunteer in your community or for an agency that supports something you care about. Start to observe ongoing issues that need to be resolved.
A good way to start is to ask what kind of things they need more people power to solve - not supplies they need, funds, things they need replaced, built or refurbished. They may need these things, but those would fall under the category of community service projects, short term solutions.
Click on the images below to see what other Girl Scouts have done
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