The Bronze Award is the highest award for a Junior Girl Scout (4th/5th grade) to earn. Junior Girl Scouts identify an issue in the community, research the causes, identify solutions, and educate their fellow Girl Scouts and community members.
These Girl Scouts found that not enough was being done for new parents and decided to compile self-care kits to donate to new parents at risk for postpartum depression. These Girl Scouts went door to door to solicit donations from local businesses and created a video to solicit donations from individuals in the community. With the donations they received, they were able to make 25 self-care kits with journals, coloring books, pens, colored pencils, candles, skincare masks, nail polish, travel cups, bath bombs, stress balls, chapstick, lotion, and wrote/drew cards of inspiration/motivation.
The Girl Scouts then researched postpartum depression and made an educational brochure to distribute in the kits, with information on how to care for postpartum depression at home and when/where to get professional help.
Each Girl Scout translated the brochure into their language of study at GVA to include in the kits.
- Hayden - French
- Bailey - Spanish
- Emily - Mandarin
The self-care kits were donated to a maternal resource room at Parker Adventist Hospital.
