Volunteer Mentor: Empower Youth in Finance & Careers

Overview

Junior Achievement empowers young people to own their economic success. Our programs educate young people to value free enterprise, business and economics through the support of teachers, parents, and volunteers in the classroom. Junior Achievement uses hands-on experiences to help young people understand how the real-world works. In partnership with business and educators, Junior Achievement brings the real-world to students, opening their minds to their potential and showing them that they can make a difference in the world.

Junior Achievement programs complement and support the great work that teachers accomplish by helping educate students in personal finance and practical workplace skills, preparing them to pursue their careers as well as their dreams.

A want versus a need. How to balance a checkbook. Don t you wish that someone had taught you as you were growing up? Now there is someone. YOU. All we need is your enthusiasm, life experience, and a willingness to teach children about how you took chances and shot for the stars. Junior Achievement of Oklahoma provides the training, curriculum, and a classroom ready to meet you!

By being a JA volunteer and sharing your personal and professional experiences and skills with students from your community, you help them make the connection between what they are learning in school and what they will need to succeed in work and life.

For a time investment of only five hours (an hour each day over the course of one to five weeks), you may be the difference between a young person in your community just making ends meet or getting a more fulfilling career and life.

JA gives you an opportunity through your employer s volunteer program (or on your own) to impact young people in your community in a positive way with simple to implement programs on financial literacy, work readiness, and entrepreneurship. This will empower young people to own their economic success.

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