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Girl Scout programs were first established in Gulfcoast Florida in the mid-1920s. In 1962, the Caloosa Girl Scout Council, made up of Lee, Collier, and one-half of Hendry Counties, merged with the Gulfside Council (Manatee and Sarasota Counties) and incorporated independent troops in Charlotte County and DeSoto County, to form the Gulfcoast ...
The North Florida Council is a local council of the Boy Scouts of America that oversees Scouting in 17 counties of northeast Florida.Through almost 3,000 volunteers the council serves over 7,000 youth in over 327 units. [1]
Pace Center for Girls was created in 1985 by Vicki Burke. [2] In 2008, the Annie E. Casey Foundation called Pace "the most effective program in the United States for keeping adolescent girls out of the juvenile justice system." [2] As of 2016, PACE Center for Girls had 19 locations in Florida with a plan to open another location in Georgia. [3]
Girl Scouts of the United States of America (GSUSA), commonly referred to as Girl Scouts, is a youth organization for girls in the United States and American girls living abroad. [2] It was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in 1912, a year after she had met Robert Baden-Powell , the founder of Scouting [ 3 ] (formally Boy Scouts).
The program of the Girl Scouts of the USA is administered through local councils. Each council covers a geographic area of the United States , that may vary in size from a single U.S. county to multiple U.S. states .
In addition, Tanah Keeta is adjacent a Girl Scout camp, called Camp Welaka. Tanah Keeta Scout Reservation is divided roughly in half into two camps, Camp Loxahatchee and Camp Clear Lake. A summer camp program has been held at Tanah Keeta in June and July since the summer of 1957. [11] The property was deeded to the Gulf Stream Council in 1953 ...
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The South Florida Council is a 501(c)(3) organization chartered by the Boy Scouts of America to serve Broward, Miami-Dade, and Monroe Counties in South Florida.As of 2022, the South Florida Council had a membership of more than 20,000 youth and adults in traditional and in-school and after-school programs.