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Heroes Among Us

Ordinary People, Extraordinary Choices
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p.217 Or how about another Austin hero named Julia Cuba, who in 1998 started Troop 1500 on a program called Girl Scouts Beyond Bars. GSBB organizes joint mother-daughter Girl Scout meetings in prisons where mothers are incarcerated. But Troop 1500 goes a few steps further, with Cuba paying close attention to the girls' home lives and school progress. Once a month the girls have group therapy. And the troop helps their mothers do well in prison. According to Cuba, 96 percent of the girls have stayed in school and 98 percent have avoided incarceration. That could be partly due to all the fun they have, with campouts, parties, and regular scout actvities like earning badges, wearing uniforms, and, of course, selling delicious cookies. That's heroism for sure.