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Cadette Girl Scouts, explore media and find out how to reshape negative media messages into more positive ones. Plan a Take Action project that encourages positive messages in media. Journeys not only build your leadership skills; they are the stepping stones to the Silver Award and the Summit Award. This program consists of five weekly posts of self-paced online programming and one optional live session, December 3, 5:30 pm EST, to connect and share experiences. Open to rising and current Cadette Girl Scouts. The Cadette Journey award may be purchased online or through your local council. Supplies list to be provided each week. This program requires a minimum of 10 Girl Scouts to run.
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The media journey is very accessible to today's youth.
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Sending the wrong message to our impressionable daughters, movies to spark discussions.
Useful Online Resources for The Media Journey
- Media in a Day Here is an outline on how to accomplish this Journey in one session.
- Girl Scouts of Easter Iowa and Western Illinois A great Pinterest board full of ideas for this Journey.
- Snapshot of Media Journey The Girl Scouts of Northern California have an outline of how to do this program in several meetings.
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Inappropriate Media Images
Just what are they trying to sell, another big issue girls have in relation to the media is overtly sexual advertisements. one look at online and print ads for teencentric brands like abercrombie and hollister and it can make a parent cringe. the images are inappropriate and have young adults in provocative poses to sell overpriced jeans and tee shirts. by advertising their products in this manner, it makes it appear acceptable to girls this age to act this way..
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A Girl Scouts troop offers hope and 'sisters for life' for migrant children
Jasmine Garsd
The world is very gray today: It's raining in New York City.
From the outside, the building looks like any other old hotel in midtown Manhattan, but it is one of the largest migrant centers for families with children in the city. About 3,500 people are housed here.
Inside the building, the light is dim and there's the constant murmur of people shuffling in and out. Somewhere in this labyrinth of hallways, there's a room that's in technicolor.
This is the meeting point for a Girl Scouts troop, in partnership with New York City Health and Hospitals.
One by one, the scouts start trickling in. Their ages are kindergarden through 12.
They all are recently-arrived migrant children from Latin America, whose families are seeking asylum.
The girls excitedly raise their hands during an activity at Girl Scout Troop 6000's weekly meeting at the Row Hotel on Wednesday evening. Lexi Parra for NPR hide caption
The girls excitedly raise their hands during an activity at Girl Scout Troop 6000's weekly meeting at the Row Hotel on Wednesday evening.
Alicia smiles while the troop plays bingo during a Girl Scout Troop 6000 meeting. Lexi Parra for NPR hide caption
Alicia smiles while the troop plays bingo during a Girl Scout Troop 6000 meeting.
Once they sit down, the first order of business is to share how's their mood this day.
"How do you feel today?," asks Juliana Alvarez, a volunteer troop leader, as she turns to a girl named Alicia, whose hand is raised. She tries to respond in English.
"Happy and... happy and... Valiente !" she smiles. Valiente : brave. Turns out, Alicia got a shot today and she didn't cry once.
Alvarez turns to another girl, Tahanne. "How do you feel today?"
"Kind of sad." She answers. "Tomorrow we have to leave this shelter."
The other girls groan sympathetically. They are all part of the approximately 180,000 migrants who have arrived in New York City in the last two years.
Overhelmed by the numbers, the city government has implemented a 60-day rule for shelter stays.
For Tahanne's family time is up. She says she doesn't know where they are going to live the next day.
"[If] it's difficult for adults, imagine how hard it is for a child to understand why they are here," says Alvarez, the volunteer mom leading the troop this day.
She knows exactly how these kids feel. She and her two daugthers lived in this shelter for about a year.
Alvarez had to leave her native Colombia when a local gang threatened her family. "I was scared," she says. "I heard that on the journey to the U.S. you get raped or killed."
Her journey was terrifying, she says. But once in the U.S., she knew she had to be strong for her children, who weren't fully grasping what was happening. "My kids would ask me, when are we going back home to Colombia? Or, mom, why have we been eating pizza every day for four months?"
Juliana, a single mother of two, gets ready to lead a Troop 6000 virtual meeting from her basement apartment in Manhattan. Both her daughters, pictured Any, attend virtually as Girl Scouts even after they left the shelter system. Originally from Bogota, Juliana emigrated with her younger sister and two daughters nearly two years ago. Lexi Parra for NPR hide caption
Juliana, a single mother of two, gets ready to lead a Troop 6000 virtual meeting from her basement apartment in Manhattan. Both her daughters, pictured Any, attend virtually as Girl Scouts even after they left the shelter system. Originally from Bogota, Juliana emigrated with her younger sister and two daughters nearly two years ago.
Any plays on her mom's phone Sunday afternoon after getting back from the park. Lexi Parra for NPR hide caption
Any plays on her mom's phone Sunday afternoon after getting back from the park.
Dreaming of becoming a doctor
During one of the breaks, I got a chance to talk with 10-year-old Tahanne, the girl scout who is sad today. She's from Ecuador.
I asked what she'd like to do when she grows up. She answers with a question: "Do you know what the sternocleidomastoid is?"
I have no idea. Tahanne points to her neck. It's a muscle, she explains. She wants to be a doctor.
Shereen Zaid, Senior director for logistics for New York City Health and Hospitals says that the 60-day rule has affected the program. "If you don't have consistent people every single day, how do you still make an impact? Consistency is key."
But Zaid says if girls attend at least some meetings, that would help.
"If we could have some of the girls meet twice or three times a week and just color together, or sing together or talk about community development together, that is such a win," Zaid said. "They come here with a suitcase or one backpack and so we are trying to help them live an actual fulfilling life."
Tahanne's family can reapply to stay here or to go to another shelter. According to the city comptroller, 45% of families whose time has ended, have been able to stay in the shelter, or transfer.
If Tahanne's family can't stay here, she has the option to still connect with the Troop 6000 via zoom. She frowns at that prospect.
Giselle poses for a portrait, Girl Scout Troop 6000 volunteer and founder, after a meeting with their members - all residents of the Row Hotel, as newly arrived migrants - on Wednesday evening. Lexi Parra for NPR hide caption
"We share everything here. We come here to be friends, these are my sisters now," she says.
"This is probably the only sense of stability they have right now," says Giselle Burgess, founder and Senior Director of Troop 6000 for families living in the NYC shelter system. She got the idea over a decade ago, when she and her daughters were living in a shelter in Queens.
She says in the last couple of years, as migrants started coming into New York, the troop was ready to create this chapter of Girl Scouts.
She first needed to adapt the curriculum.
Take an activity like the cookie sales, which Girl Scouts are famous for. Here, it turns into an exercise in math and learning American currency.
And all around the room there are drawings of the New York City Subway lines, and penciled maps of the city.
Also, they write handwritten letters. This was part of another recent project: write a letter to girls who want to come to America.
One of them, written by a 9-year-old scout:
My advice for girls who want to come to the US
Is that you have to be very strong
And you have to really want it
Because this country has a lot of opportunities
But the journey will not be all easy.
Girls and their leaders hold hands and sing songs as the closing activity to their weekly Troop 6000 meeting, held at the Row Hotel. Lexi Parra for NPR hide caption
Girls and their leaders hold hands and sing songs as the closing activity to their weekly Troop 6000 meeting, held at the Row Hotel.
Giselle shows the Girl Scout salute after a meeting with their members. Lexi Parra for NPR hide caption
Giselle shows the Girl Scout salute after a meeting with their members.
This letter is a stark reminder that many of these kids recently made a journey that is dangerous, even deadly.
In the next break of the group, I chat with a 12-year-old girl from Venezuela, named Astrid. "When I grow up, I want to save people. A lot of people die."
She says she wants to join the U.S. military. "I'm ready," she says. "I walked through the jungle to get here... I'm ready."
The Troop has two Master of Social Work candidate interns, who attend every meeting and monitor the children for signs of trauma, anxiety and depression.
Meridith Maskara CEO poses for a portrait before the Girl Scout Troop 6000 meeting with their members - all residents of the Row Hotel, as newly arrived migrants. Lexi Parra for NPR hide caption
"Outside of these doors, it is trauma," says Meredith Mascara, CEO of Girl Scouts of Greater New York.
When she looks at these girls, she thinks about when she heard her own grandparents talk about immigration, she says.
"They will be the ones running the city. I'm sure we have [future] elected officials that are passing through [the shelter system.] The story goes on. It's what our relatives did. They'll be telling those stories to their kids and to their grandkids," she says. "I'm proud that Girl Scouts are part of that. "
But for now, it's fun and games. Snacking and learning to pronounce Girl Scout cookies with names that, for non-English speakers, might as well be called sternocleidomastoid cookies.
By the end of the meeting, the girls stand in a circle, holding hands. The troop leaders sing the traditional Girl Scout goodbye, the scouts try to follow along.
Make new friends , But keep the old .
One is silver, And the other, gold.
A circle's round. It has no end.
That's how long. I'm gonna be your friend.
Outside, the world can feel like it's on fire. But in this tiny corner of the shelter, it's always a good day to make new friends.
Two Girl Scouts from Troop 6000 hug during their weeklymeeting at the Row Hotel. Lexi Parra for NPR hide caption
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Cadette Girl Scouts, explore media and find out how to reshape negative media messages into more positive ones. Plan a Take Action project that encourages positive messages in media. ... December 3, 5:30 pm EST, to connect and share experiences. Open to rising and current Cadette Girl Scouts. The Cadette Journey award may be purchased online or ...
The Girl Scout Cadette MEdia Journey helps girls learn about the media in their lives and how to deal with it in a positive way. (Note-MEdia is intentionally spelled in this manner to show the girls how they are a part of it.) ... Cadette Girl Scout Journeys may also participate in other affiliate programs, as well, including but not limited to ...
stereotypes, media saturation, music, and many more. (Options can be found on pages 11, 19, 27, 29, 34, 35, 46, and 60) Step 3: The Influence Award part 1: This is your Take Action project for this Journey. Go to page 74-75 for Media Remake ideas and suggestions, or come up with your own. Carry out the media remake project of your choice.
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MEdia On this Journey, Cadettes explore the media they love, including movies, TV shows, and music, and how to reshape negative media messages into more positive ones. They may invite a TV show producer to talk about what influences her work, organize a movie night and discuss the film's messages, or write a rap song or TV script.
It s Your Story Tell It! Media Cadette Journey page 71. Carol Jenkins remembers her first television vividly. It had a black-and-white screen built into a huge piece of furniture called a console, and it lurked in the corner of the living room. It was the early 1950s, and her family was the first on their block in Queens, New York, to have a TV.
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CADETTE MEDIA JOURNEY - MEETING 1. Award Purpose: When you've earned this award, you'll be able to recognize the influence of media on your everyday life, and make a commitment to cultivating positive change in how you use media. Activity Plan Length: 1.5 hours. Time.
Cadette Journey Overview Title Description *All Journeys require a Take Action Project related to the Topic* Community Resources It's Your Story—Tell It: MEdia Explore media for ways to reshape media messages to be positive. Talk to a TV show producer about what influences their work, organize a movie night and discuss the film's messages ...
Learn to examine and create media messages with a critical eye in this 4-day virtual workshop series for Girl Scout Cadettes. Explore issues, develop skills, and create a Take Action project that shares your vision with your community.
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In this 4-day virtual MEdia Journey workshop series, Girl Scout Cadettes will look for the ME in media and learn how they can shape media messages for themselves, their community, and the world. By the end of our MEdia workshop series, each Cadette will have a well-developed plan for a Take Action Project (to be carried out on their own time ...
Journey Connection: Session 2 - Unmasking Media Stereotypes Time Allotment: 15 minutes. Materials Needed: Magazines. Scissors. Steps: Advertising and its messages are often at the root of concerns people have about media. Use this activity to get the girls talking about the messages they receive from media and advertisements.
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States: Massachusetts Assessment Standards. aMAZE! The Twists and Turns of Getting Along. Summary: Life is a maze of relationships and this journey for sixth-, seventh- and eighth-graders has Girl Scout Cadettes maneuvering through all its twists and turns to find true friendships, plenty of confidence, and maybe even peace. (978--88441-715-6 ...
MEDIA JOURNEY WEEKEND 10:00 Opening = Pledge and Promise Intro to Journey: There are 3 parts to this journey This weekend you will earn each ... Watch the movie The Golden Eagle a 1918 Silent Girl Scout promotional film Explanation p. 22 girls book and p 81 in adult book. Juliette Low used media (the film) to get the word out and promote Girl ...
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Join Troop 4251 for a fun-filled time learning ways to recognize & overcome the negativity in today's media!Cadette MEdia Journey DayDate: April 30, 2023, 1:30 p.m. - 4 p.m.Location: Erie Community Center, 420 Powers St, Erie, COPrice: $32 per Girl Scout, badges & Take Action Project IncludedTo register, click on https://cadette-journey.cheddarup.comIf you have any questions, please ...
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A Girl Scouts troop offers hope and 'sisters for life' for migrant children. Best friends, Astrid, 12 from Venezuela, and Dayra, 12 from Ecuador, pose for a portrait during a Girl Scout Troop 6000 ...