My World

myworld@gscolorado.org

Girl Scouts learn about social issues and how to become advocates for causes about which they are passionate locally and globally.

This initiative includes Power Up, a nationally recognized model developed in Colorado that combats relational aggression or bullying among girls.  Most bullying prevention programs focus on the bully and the target, while Power Up teaches the 85% of girls who are bystanders to bullying behaviors how to safely intervene.  Girls learn about relational bullying – prevalent among girls – which is the systematic diminishment of a child’s self-worth through exclusion, shunning, and gossip.  They discover how bullying involves an imbalance of power, and how it occurs in a culture where there is a sense of entitlement and intolerance of difference.