Junior Achievement Collaborative

We believe those who collaborate win! Last year, we realized we were not utilizing our potential partners Junior Achievement.  Most people associate Junior Achievement with their program that provides students with programming around entrepreneurship. Junior Achievement has expanded their offering to include financial literacy and work readiness.  Junior Achievement also has strong ties to businesses in our community.  Realizing the potential they have, we met with them to see how we could collaborate.

Our local Junior Achievement representatives were Carolos Laboy and Anthony Eder.  After a series of meetings, and an opportunity to learn more about each other's goals, we were able to create a custom series of work readiness sessions for our schools in Lorain County.  We asked Junior Achievement to take their more intensive six session program and create an introductory session for our schools in Lorain County.  Junior Achievement utilized some of their partners in our county to provide the programming over two sessions.  We are pleased to announce we had participation in this late year pilot to General Johnnie Wilson Middle Schools on may 18th.  The students learned about career paths and clusters, career mapping, and soft skills.  

We are excited to work more with Junior Achievement as we move forward and seek to collaborate!