Junior Achievement

Program Location:

JA provides services during the school day at school.

Program Contact:

Diane Smith

Description:

Non-profit 501C3 that provides workforce readiness curriculum for teachers and volunteers, have volunteers that deliver junior achievement programs. Devleops k-12 grade level program, based in workforce readiness skills, entreprenuership, financhial literacy, basic economics, work during the school day, in the school.

Program Type:

through schools in person, but have online resources as well, blended model where volunteer and teacher still have paper lessons, and teacher can book time in computer lab to go online to do activities online

Certificate Type:

Certificate of Achievement, does not count for credit for anything, but more of a participation award

Time of Day:

Business hours

Schedule:

Elementary program is run in one school day (7:45-1:00)
3rd 4th 5th- run during one school day (cover 5 lessons in one school day)
some schools choose to do once per week

middle (1 day event)
high school- weekly (6 weeks for 1 hour per week)

Benefits:

Reaching out to children to find strengths

Meals Provided:

n/a

Common Age Group:

k-12th grade

Average Number of Participants:

6500

Scholarships:

No

Partners:

n/a

Affiliates:

Use volunteers from UF

Comments:

N/a

Cost:

no, volunteer

Program Website:

http://www.jaalachua.org