March 6, 2021
We continue to share our updated COVID-19 plans for the first months of our 2021-2022 Membership Year. These updated plans include guidelines and protocols encouraging troops to continue meeting virtually, while providing guidelines and restrictions for in-person meetings. These in-person meeting guidelines include required face masks, social distancing, and group size limitations, among other. In this communication we announced that our facilities will not be available for overnight rentals or camporees, that any reservations will be cancelled, and that further communication will be shared soon.
In an effort to better serve our membership and be inclusive of
troops that are interested in engaging their participating Girl
Scouts with in-person meetings but may be struggling to secure a
meeting location for their troop, GSEP has decided to open day-time
reservation time slots at four of our locations.
Limited buildings at Camp Laughing Waters, Camp Shelly
Ridge, Camp Mountain House and Camp Valley Forge will be available for
first-come first-serve reservation for troop meetings within the
established guidelines. The fee to reserve
a time slot at each location is $25. Upon reserving, troops must
acknowledge that they must stay within the established guidelines of
no more than 10 individuals within an indoor meeting (including girls
and adults to meet ratios). Troops will also acknowledge that they are
responsible to communicate to parents they must give the girls
temperature checks prior to every meeting and that girls showing fever
must be kept at home. If a girl is also exposed to a confirmed or
potential COVID-19 case, she must refrain from showing up at the meeting.
Upon check-in, the ranger assigned to each property will greet them and give them a walkthrough of what building they are assigned to, what bathroom facilities they are assigned to use and any other protocols that pertain to their reservation. GSEP will provide limited amount of hand sanitizing stations throughout the grounds, as well as hand soap and normal toiletries at the bathrooms but attendees are required to bring their own masks and wear them at all times while on campus and provide any other needed cleaning supplies.
To allow for cleaning procedures and other safety measures,
reservation will be staggered and timed accordingly so our GSEP staff
can prepare each location for the next reservation. At this time,
reservations will be allowed for troop meetings only.
We
are taking reservations for troop meetings only. Overnight camping,
large events (camporees), and any gathering that would violate our
previously established guidelines, will be prohibited until February
28th, 2021. At that time, GSEP will review the current environment and
government guidelines on allowing gatherings.
Troops
interested in reserving, will be able to book site reservations as
they normally would through the Rent a Campsite page
HERE.
We look forward to the day
when our facilities can be reopened for everyone’s enjoyment, but for
now we look forward to welcoming troops at our camps again! We surely
have missed you.
Yours in Girl Scouting,
Kim E. Fraites-Dow, CEO
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For current information* on COVID-19 in GSEP's nine-county footprint
visit the Pennsylvania Department of Health.
*This information is subject to change based on the ongoing
nature of the COVID-19 virus in your respective communities.
