By Kim Becker Cooper | Director of Annual Giving
To celebrate the 107th Birthday of Girl Scouts on March 12th, A Mighty Girl, the foremost website dedicated to raising smart, confident, and courageous girls, featured the Beyond Bars Program on their blog.
The article shared the history and impact of the program, which started in 1992 as a partnership between Girl Scouts of Central Maryland and the Maryland Correctional Institute for Women and has grown to 17 Girl Scout councils throughout the U.S.
We are also happy to announce that Girl Scouts of Central Maryland has been awarded a grant by Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. to fund a pilot program for girls in nontraditional settings. GSCM’s project will take Girl Scout programming to girls in juvenile detention.
Currently, Girl Scouts Beyond Bars is serving 33 girls. Over the past 25 years, more than 400 girls have been given the support they need as they cope with the loss of a parent and the isolation that comes from the stigma of their mothers’ involvement in the criminal justice system.
Your commitment to Girl Scouts Beyond Bars helps us ensure that ALL girls in central Maryland have the opportunity to be a G.I.R.L. (Go-getter, Innovator, Risk-taker, Leader)™.
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