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Be the Voice For Girls
The Girl Scouts Advocacy Network provides a tool for you to become a voice for girls and to make a difference in your community and across the nation. Together, we can educate policymakers and community leaders on issues that directly affect girls and the Girl Scouts. By being an advocate, you will have an impact on girl policy issues moving through Congress and the state legislatures.
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Featured Alert
Support Healthy Media Images for Girls!
Urge Your Member of Congress to Cosponsor H.R. 4925
Did you know...
- Nearly 90% of girls say the media places a lot of pressure on teenage girls to be thin
- Only 46% of girls think that the fashion industry does a good job of representing people of all races and ethnicities
- 55% of teenage girls admit they diet to lose weight and 37% know a girl with an eating disorder
(Girls & Body Image, 2010)
Girl Scouts worked closely with Congresswomen Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) to introduce the Healthy Media for Youth Act (H.R. 4925). This bill supports media literacy programs and youth empowerment groups, facilitates research on how images of women and girls impact youth, and establishes a National Taskforce on Women and Girls in the Media to develop voluntary standards that promote healthy, balanced, and positive images of girls and women.
H.R. 5747 Introduced by Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL)
The Girl Scouts Public Policy and Advocacy Office is excited to announce that Congressman Bobby Rush (D-IL) recently introduced H.R. 5747, the Families Beyond Bars Act. This bill, which is modeled closely after the Girl Scouts Beyond Bars (GSBB) program, creates a program within the Department of Justice to serve the children of incarcerated parents. Check out this story about the one year anniversary of GSBB in Idaho for more information!...
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