Junior Achievement Presents: The NEFE High School Financial Planning Program
JA Worldwide is partnering with the National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) to develop a new, kit-based, personal financial literacy program for high school students. A volunteer guide and accompanying consumable materials will be developed by JA Worldwide for use with the award-wining NEFE High School Financial Planning Program curriculum. Through this collaboration, JA Worldwide will make a state-of-the-art, paper-based, financial literacy program available to high school students throughout the United States beginning in fall 2007.


JA Success Skills
Through funding from the U.S. Department of Justice, the revision of JA Success Skills currently is under way. The program provides seven volunteer-led lessons that will help students develop work-readiness skills. The revised JA Success Skills program, promoted as an ideal preparatory curriculum for JA Job Shadow, will be released for implementation in fall 2007. This program is used with the Work Ethic Seal Program.


JA Economics
Revisions of the JA Economics textbook accompanying program materials are production. The updated JA Economics textbook, JA Economics Guide for and Volunteers, JA Economics Study and JA Economics Test Bank will be for implementation in fall 2007.


JA Biz Kid$
Sign up on http://www.jabizkids.com today! The site, which supports the JA's Biz Kid$ television program, has many opportunities and activities for viewers. Encourage your staff, volunteers, teachers, and students to register to receive the JA's Biz Kid$ monthly newsletter, The Vault, for updates about the television program and financial planning.


Online Volunteer Training is Now Available
Simply click here or visit our "Volunteer for JA" page.