Programs
JA is the world’s largest organization dedicated to educating students from ages 5 to 25 about entrepreneurship, work readiness and financial literacy through experiential, age-appropriate hands-on programs.
Our programs help prepare young people for the real world by showing them how to generate wealth and effectively manage it, how to create jobs which make their communities more robust, and how to apply entrepreneurial thinking to the workplace. Students put these lessons into action and learn the value of contributing to their communities.
JA Asia Pacific offer JA’s experiential curriculum as ready to use programs, as well as collaborate with partners to co-create or design bespoke curriculum to cater to specific needs. All JA curriculum stand on the three core areas of financial education:
JA’s learning experiences, more than 50 in all, motivate and inspire students to acquire the skills they need for future career success. Each experience is designed to be immersive and high-impact: For some experiences, like JA Job Shadow, students leave the classroom and head to local businesses. For others, like the iconic JA Company Program, JA brings the business world into schools. Still others, like JA Innovation Camp, require students to solve community challenges through entrepreneurial thinking, often during an intensive weekend.
In working with sponsors, JA Asia Pacific develops partnerships to collaborate on program design - based on the three core areas, and operations - intervention at schools and institutions, usually involving JA staff, the sponsor company’s staff, JA volunteers, teachers and parents as a form of community engagement. Programs can run in one or more locations simultaneously, as well as inter-location and at a regional level.
International Programs
Listed below are some of our most popular, high-impact international JA programs that we run across the JA Asia Pacific network.
Legend
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
WORK READINESS
FINANCIAL LITERACY
JA Our Community
JA Our Community uses posters and games to offer practical information about businesses and the many jobs those businesses offer in a community. Students explore production methods through a simulation game, and they learn about taxes, decision making, and how money flows in an economy.
Age 7
JA Our Families
JA Our Families explains how family members' jobs and businesses contribute to the well-being of the family and of the community. The program introduces the concept of needs and wants and explores the ways families plan for and acquire goods and services. Students analyze their own skills to determine ways they can support their families.
Age 7
JA More Than Money
JA More Than Money teaches students about earning, spending, sharing, and saving money. It also identifies businesses that students can start or jobs they can perform to earn money. Students play a game to learn money-management skills and to better understand the role and importance of money in their lives.
Ages 8-10
JA It's My Business
JA It's My Business encourages students to use critical thinking to learn entrepreneurial skills. Those skills include knowing customers' wants and needs, launching effective marketing, and creating detailed business plans. By examining the characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, students learn the power of self-belief to affect positive change.
Ages 11-13
JA Economics for Success
JA Economics for Success gives students the information needed to build strong personal finances, a cornerstone to a happy, secure life. Students learn the importance of exploring career options based on their skills, interests, and values. They also learn about spending money within a budget, saving and investing wisely, and using credit cautiously.
Ages 11-13
JA Job Shadow
JA Job Shadow prepares students to be entrepreneurial thinkers in their approach to work. In-class sessions prepare students for a visit to a professional work environment, where they will face a series of challenges administered by their workplace hosts. Students learn how to research career opportunities and the skills needed to land and keep their dream job.
Age 14-17
JA Career Success
JA Career Success equips students with the knowledge required to get and keep a job in high-growth industries. Students will explore the crucial workplace skills employers seek but often find lacking in young employees. Students also will learn about valuable tools to find that perfect job, including resumes, cover letters, and interviewing techniques.
Age 14-17
JA Be Entrepreneurial
JA Be Entrepreneurial challenges students, through interactive classroom activities, to start their own entrepreneurial venture while still in high school. The program provides useful, practical content to assist teens in the transition from being students to productive, contributing members of society.
Age 14-17
JA Building a Financially Capable Generation
JA Building a Financially Capable Generation is a financial education experience for young people to gain financial management skills, practice smart behaviors, and take actions that enable sustainable living. Learning activities include:
An educational foundational session, delivered by teachers and volunteers
A mobile app, FinQuest, designed for youth
A team-based project and innovation competition, the Global FinCap Challenge
Age 12-16
Regional Programs
Listed below are some of the regular JA Programs held at a regional level, involving inter-location activities that we run across the JA Asia Pacific network.
