To earn a Volunteer-in-Training award, follow these steps:
- Find a mentor volunteer who is currently the adult volunteer for a group of girls at the level you’d like to work with. This volunteer will help you through your training and internship, and you’ll help the volunteer with her group of girls for the three-to-six month period.
- Complete a council-designed leadership course.
- Create and implement a thoughtful program based on a Journey or badge that lasts over four or more sessions. Be responsible for designing, planning, and evaluating the activities. If you’re passionate about a topic like art or technology, you could design the activities around the area you love or in which you have expertise.
Volunteer-in-Training hours need to be separate from those used toward other awards.
Use the Activities Log and Evaluation to keep track of hours and completing the final evaluation before submitting everything to council.
