Community Group 181 serves the Harrisburg, PA area.  We support all Girl Scout troops located in the Harrisburg, Steelton-Highspire, and Susquehanna Township School Districts, along with private schools in their territories.

If you are a parent looking for more information about Scouting, please contact our GSHPA Membership Associate, Jordan DeVan.   Or, you can use "Contact our Community" link at the top of the page to contact Kim Fino, a Troop Leader in our Community.

If you are a Leader of a Troop in our Community, and you would like access to the private section of this site, please use the "Contact Our Community" link at the top of the page to place your request with Kim Fino, a Troop Leader in our Community.  We have our calendar of events, along with some leader resources available for you to use.  Once your status as a leader is confirmed, you will receive a welcome email that will give you access to the full site.

Girl Scouts earn badges, hike and camp, participate in the cookie program, and much more. They improve neighborhoods, protect the planet, design robots, and establish sports clinics.

Girl Scout program is fun with purpose! It is based on the Girl Scout Promise and Law that generations of girls have followed. In 2008, Girl Scouts launched the Girl Scout Leadership Experience, represented by three keys of leadership—Discover, Connect, and Take Action (PDF)—to promote the Girl Scout Mission: Girl Scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character, who make the world a better place.

We measure what girls gain as they move through the Girl Scout Leadership Experience, a set of activities and experiences designed to deliver specific benefits to girls at every age level.

Underneath the fun, the Girl Scout Leadership Experience is working to help girls:

• Develop a strong sense of self
• Develop positive values
• Gain practical life skills
• Seek challenges in the world
• Develop critical thinking skills
• Develop healthy relationships
• Promote cooperation and team building
• Resolve conflicts
• Advance diversity in a multicultural world
• Feel connected to their communities, locally and globally
• Identify community needs
• Become resourceful problem solvers
• Advocate for themselves and for others, locally and globally
• Educate and inspire others to act
• Feel empowered to make a difference in the world

And it doesn't stop there. In addition to the benefits that will help her in every area of her life, being a Girl Scout can help her excel in every subject at school.

Check out what caregivers and volunteers have to say:

• 95% of caregivers say she's made more friends through Girl Scout
• 89% of caregivers say their daughter is happier because of Girl Scouts
• 90% of caregivers say their girl has grown more confident through Girl Scout
• 95% of volunteers say they make girls lives better at Girl Scouts (and that makes them happy)
• 88% of Girl Scout volunteers say their volunteer experience with us makes their life better
• Two thirds of volunteers say Girl Scouts has helped them professionally

• Ten of seventeen women (59%) in the US Senate are former Girl Scouts
• Forty-five of seventy-five women (60%) in the US House of Representatives are former Girl Scouts
• Fifty-three percent of all women business owners are former Girl Scouts
• Seventy-six percent of all Girl Scout Alumnae report that Girl Scouts had a positive impact in their lives