Trust.  It’s a complicated thing.  And it’s an issue for our organization – at least since I’ve been around.

I’m relatively new to the adult world of Girl Scouting as I’ve just started my 11th year as a volunteer.   I started with my first year of Daisies right after the mergers and as the Journeys were launched.  The previous badges and Try-Its were retired right around that time too.  So I basically stepped right into the middle of a battlefield.  I had no knowledge of what things were like pre-merger as I had really very little contact with the Girl Scouting world between the time I completed my Gold Award in 1989 until the fall of 2010.  I am also from a different legacy council growing up, so it’s not like I even had any ties to the council I am in.

But, it became very obvious that there was a disconnect the more I worked on the service unit team and attended council town halls.  I became a council delegate about the same time as I started this blog in the spring of 2014.   I really started to delve into the national scene in 2015 when Suellen Nelles, CEO of the Farthest North council, published a white paper because I felt like it keyed in on things I had picked up on previously but didn’t know where they came from. Continue reading