Dollars with Sense
Dollars with Sense gives junior high school students personal money management skills, challenging them to apply these concepts in their own life, starting now! Encourage them to make sense of their dollars and cents.
This program demonstrates how students can financially manage changes in career and life directions. From the origins of trade to the ins and outs of investing, Dollars with Sense provides experience they need to make better economic decisions. Students play an investment strategies game to learn about effective spending and how to avoid credit and debt pitfalls. The best return on investment is smarter financial growth.
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"We know that sound financial knowledge leads to sound financial decisions and helping young people learn and practice key principles related to managing, saving, growing and protecting their money goes a long way in paving the way for future success. Our collaboration with Junior Achievement of British Columbia is a great fit because the Dollars with Sense program is an excellent vehicle for this type of education."
-Wendy Lachance, Director, Community Leadership for Coast Capital Savings
Like other Junior Achievement programs, Dollars with sense is curriculum-linked, student centered and skills focused. It is delivered by a qualified business volunteer in a one ½ day session, usually between 8:15am and 12:30pm, at no cost to schools or groups.
For more information please contact your local Program Manager:
Laura Addinall, Fraser Valley
Ivy Chan, Lower Mainland
Deborah Wakeham, Vancouver Island
Beth Veenkamp, Okanagan
Gemma Gowling, Kamloops
Jack Hooper, Northern BC