Youth Programs
Creating social justice and equity through digital readiness, entrepreneurship, and social-emotional leadership programs.
Research shows these skills lead to better academic performance, improved employability, and higher income levels throughout life.
Future Ready Students, Prepared to Lead.
Program Details
Below is a detailed description of our programs.
The Business of Youth
This career preparedness program utilizes entrepreneurship, digital and information literacy, and leadership skills, to help students create a business or career plan. This program prepares students for a meaningful career as a business owner or as an intrapreneur in any field they choose.
Key skills include:
- Digital and information readiness: Combines traditional digital literacy skills with information readiness and critical thinking Skills.
- Strategy: Teaches students how to define their business idea or career plan and conduct competitive or career research.
- Financial Basics and Business Operations: Provides students with skills to gain funding, diversify income Streams, and learn legal fundamentals.
- Personal or Professional Branding, Communications, and Marketing: Teaches students to use their voice and cultivate their digital visibility in a professional manner.
- Leadership and professional relationship development skills: These fundamental durable skills foster healthy boundaries and resilience on any career path.
So, You Want to Be a YouTube Star?
So, You Want To Be a YouTube Star introduces youth to entrepreneurship by focusing on a topic they all love- social media. This engaging program is aligned to standards including State Academic Standards in Entrepreneurship, Technology and Society; Markets and Economic Systems; Career Preparation; Writing; and Communication. The curriculum is also aligned to Career Readiness and CASEL Standards.
Available for middle school and high school levels.
- Introduction to Entrepreneurship and Profiles of Entrepreneurs
- Marketing Social Media Mastery: How to create a brand, build an audience, and create content.
- Introduction to Budgets
- Leadership and professional relationship development skills
- How to make money via social media and other digital opportunities
- Boundaries and building resilience
For a complete lesson list, please contact us, we’re happy to discuss your school or community organization’s needs!
Social Emotional Leadership: Your Secret Skill Set
Future-proof skills revolve around emotional agility. “Soft skills” are now being called “Durable skills” and are still the most important skills to attain employment, high income, and job satisfaction.
Students with strong social and emotional skills are more likely to graduate from high school and college and have stable, full time employment and are less likely to commit crimes, be on public assistance, and have drug, alcohol, and mental health problems.
Our program teaches youth:
- Emotional Intelligence
- Resilience
- Setting Healthy Boundaries
- Critical Thinking and Problem Solving
- Goal Setting and Action Plans
- Creating Your Support Plan
- Inclusivity and Collaboration
Digital You Protect and Prosper
Digital skills are key to creating financial security and equity. Workers that qualify for jobs that require even one digital skill can earn an average of 23 percent more than in a job requiring no digital skills. Moving from a job requiring no digital skills to one requiring at least three can increase pay by an average of 45%.
For the economy as a whole, these increased earnings could generate more state and federal tax revenue. Depending on the household size and composition, this could range from $1,363 to $2,879 in additional tax revenue per household per year.
Our Digital You: Protect and Prosper program helps youth to:
- Learn how to identify digital tools and resources.
- Evaluate information and validity of sources online.
- Cultivate their personal brand for professional success.
- Find resources from health care solutions to continued education.
- Use their voice in a way that is impactful.
- Be able to avoid scams, trolls, and discern fact from misinformation online.
These are skills which truly prepare youth for the modern economy, empowering them to create healthy, financially secure futures for themselves.
The Reviews Are In. . .
Impact: In Their Words
Students love us.
And partners and parents love us, too!
“I learned how not to give away my business and its profit to the person I borrowed money from.”
“I learned how to prepare a script and how to deliver what I’m saying. I also learned how you make money on YouTube.”
