JA Service Learning and What A Difference A Day Makes

Issue: Financial Literacy

Grant Amount: $100,000.00
Houston, TX
Year Funded: 2011
Organization: JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS

Contact Information

Larry Washington
.(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address)
713.682.4500

JA’s What a Difference A Day Makes was designed as a service learning project to build relationships between high schools and elementary schools within a particular community while providing high school students with an opportunity to become service oriented - enhancing their skills as presenters, leaders and teachers by providing JA’s hands-on, experiential financial literacy programs to K-5 students within their own communities. To meet the increasing demand of this project and to enhance the learning experience for students, Junior Achievement of Southeast Texas intends to develop a full length JA program about service learning—JA Service Learning.  This program will be added to the JA high school program offering including programs like JA Success Skills and JA Personal Finance and is meant to show students the value of service learning as it relates to meeting the needs of their community and developing skills for a successful personal future.

JA provides students with a relevant financial educational experience.  Junior Achievement programs equip youth with the financial knowledge and skills necessary to make informed financial choices in an ever complex and changing global economy.  All of the JA programs being taught through the What A Difference A Makes project focus on teaching youth financial skills. On average, as demonstrated by multiple studies, JA students score significantly higher than their peers on assessments that measure financial literacy.
•Students participating in JA reported that they learned practical skills, such as how to open a bank account, write a check, and develop a business.
•Students who participated in JA were more likely than their peers to report that they understand what it means to save and invest.
•More than 8 out of 10 students (84%) who participated in agreed that the program taught them how to avoid going into debt.

Project Updates

Choose a different project.