The new Junior Achievement Secondary School Financial Literacy Program is coming to Chatham-Kent, Windsor-Essex and Sarnia-Lambton.
Lessons include learning how to budget for different life scenarios, understand credit and how it works, planning a career path and learning to be a savvy consumer. In Chatham, the digital, blended learning program will be taught in a conference style format at the W.I.S.H. Centre on November 21 from 9:30am until 1:30pm.
The organization will test this program in all three areas thanks to a $25,600 grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation.
"This brand new program has us excited!” says Barb Smith, President of JA of South Western Ontario. “100 youth in each of our three regions will be receiving the necessary soft skills they need to be successful as they head towards their financial futures. So many people wish they were taught these skills earlier and thanks to this amazing program and the Ontario Trillium Foundation we are able to kick start the delivery of this much needed program.”
Junior Achievement is known for its well-respected programs that teach their 3 main pillars of Financial Literacy, Entrepreneurship and Work Readiness and this program just adds to that culture.
November is Financial Literacy Month.