Teaching youth about personal financial decisions.

1. College Dreams and Junior Achievement
Preparing IDA Youth for Success

2. 60% of pre-teens cannot explain
difference between cash-checks-credit
Only 13 states require a high school
course in personal finance

3. Last year alone national student loan debt soared by more
than 11 percent to $1.1 trillion.
In 2013 the average US college
graduate walked away with $26,000
in student loan debt

4. Only 40 percent of adults keep a budget and track their
spending.
More than one-fourth of American
families have no savings at all.
Three-fourths of American families say they live
paycheck to paycheck.

5. The IDA challenge

7. JA is the largest and fastest growing
organization in the world committed to
teaching young people about business,
entrepreneurship, careers and
personal financial literacy.

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1950: After-School Student Company Program
Mid 1980s: Transition to In-School Programs (K-12)
2006: JA BizTown
2013: JA Finance Park

9. 13 In-Depth Classroom lessons
Income, savings & investing, debit & credit, risk
management, taxes, and evaluating budgets

12. JA Finance Park Simulation Visit
Students apply classroom learning by
making important personal finance
decisions and maintaining a balanced
budget in a hi-tech, interactive simulation
experience

19. Post-Experience Activities
Back in the classroom additional
activities/lessons allow students to
reflect on their experience by exploring
future career goals, interests, values, and
more

20. Ripple Effects in the Community
It’s more than just teaching kids about
needs versus wants

21. Stacie Grier
College Dreams
sgrier@collegedreams.org
541-621-7291
Or your local Junior Achievement Office
Portland, Eugene, Medford, Klamath Falls, and Bend