Calling all Scout Leaders: Lead your scouts to an informed decision about organ and tissue donation.

Lifeline of Ohio, Girl Scouts of Ohio’s Heartland and the Boy Scouts of America have teamed up to help ensure that everyone can make an informed decision about donation by offering programs for your scouts.

Lifeline of Ohio provides training materials, buys patches for the scouts, and helps Scout leaders educate scouts about donation and the critical importance of having a family discussion about donation.

Girl Scouts’ Scout Out: The Gift of Life

Our workshop educates Girl Scouts about the importance of organ, tissue and eye donation and the necessity of having a family discussion.

Through the use of interactive lessons, testimonials from those touched by donation, games and other educational activities, the scouts will learn about the organs, their functions and how transplantation of them takes place. Various scenarios will illustrate the need for transplantation as the students work together to create a fair and equitable way to share organs that are in desperately short supply.  We then take a look at how organs are assigned to a particular individual and help them determine how their system is similar or different from the national one.

Additionally, we discuss how tissue donation can save limbs, restore sight and help over a million Americans heal every year.

We can schedule workshops at our Columbus office, and have a modified version of the program that can be presented at a scout meeting. Based on the age group of the scouts, we add or subtract content to match their level of understanding so that everyone can participate and contribute to the day.

At the completion of the program, each scout will receive a Donate Life patch and written materials to take home and share with family and friends.

Boy Scouts: Donor Awareness Patch

The Donor Awareness Patch requires that the scouts learn about donation and then go home and discuss donation with three family members.  The education of the scouts can be accomplished by having the scout leader present donation information to their Troop or having a representative of Lifeline of Ohio (staff or volunteer)  present at the scout meeting, answer questions and give the scouts all the information they need to understand donation, its impact on individuals and the community, and the necessity of talking to their family about donation.

Click here to download Tips for Troop Discussions and Questions for Group Discussions to help educate you about organ and tissue donation.

To request materials for your scouts fill out this easy form or call Ron Packard, community education manager, at 614-384-7332.