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Program Overview

The objective of the program is to teach youth attending elementary schools in high-risk urban and economically disadvantaged communities, personal growth curriculums. Chapters may implement their own programs or Junior Achievement curriculums which focus on personal finance, community development, entrepreneurial skills, goal planning and personal achievement. Chapters may chose to participate in one or more of the following three modules:

Module I

A one day mentoring program where the Chapters sends volunteers to a school to teach personal economics to high risk students. Chapters may teach Junior Achievement or materials developed by UFSC members. The one day program may involve teaching all or parts of the five week Junior Achievement curriculum.

Module II

A five week mentoring program on personal economics targeted at high risk elementary school students. Volunteers spend an hour a week for five weeks teaching an elementary school class (K - 5th grades). Chapters may use their own program materials or the Junior Achievement curriculum.

Module III

Children will shadow volunteers at work. This module has two options:

• A member can volunteer to host a student at their job for part or all of a day.
• A chapter can arrange for a group of children to visit a bank or company for part or all of a day (i.e. Federal Reserve Bank, Stock Exchange, etc.)

Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement was founded in 1919 and is the oldest and largest business and economic not-for-profit education organization in the world. Junior Achievement is in 100 countries. Over 67,000 businesses and corporations in 100 countries support the organization's goals of economic literacy. In the US, the organization links the private sector with 2.7 million children and focuses on programs targeted at grades K-12.