Core Initiatives
JA has developed hands–on learning initiatives for students in grades K–12 and also out of schools. Through a blended model, our regional initiatives currently include digital components such us e–learning platforms and e-shops modules, combined with volunteers’ interventions.
Winning Women
Winning Women is a free, digital, self-instructional and accesible training program for women who wish to develop their digital knowledge and technical skills to work in a digital world.
Grow with Google for youth
Grow with Google for youth is a Google initiative with the support of Junior Achievement Americas that seeks to train young people between the ages of 18 and 30 in digital marketing skills and soft skills for their job placement.
JA Innovation Camps
The JA Innovation Camp can be either a half day or a one-day, intensive experience that engages students with entrepreneurial and collaborative learning opportunities. The goal is for students between 15 and 18 years old to find innovative solutions to a specific challenge faced in the world of business or their community as a team using innovative tools such as design thinking and the business model CANVAS.
EmpleaTECH
With the objective to empower youth with soft, business and ITC skills to become key players in the development of the Latin American economy and promote job creation by powering tech-driven enterprise growth, JA Americas and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) propose a combination of two programs JA has designed together with SAP: Latin Code Week and a training program to become certified in the SAP product “B1” to potentially be hired as B1 consultants. ManpowerGroup also joins this effort, by helping youth to enter the job market.
Latin Code Week
The objective of Latin Code Week is to empower future generations with the tools they need to thrive in the 21st century. The program is an 18-hour introductory course on soft skills, business skills, design thinking, prototyping and includes an innovation camp where students will prototype an app as a solution to a specific challenge faced in the world of business or social issue with the assistance of mentors and volunteers.
Road to Success
The JA - Scotiabank Road to Success initiative has been developed under the blended-learning model and focuses on financial education, leadership development, skills for success, career development, innovation and design thinking. It’s a combination of JA Economics for Success, a local Innovation Camp and a regional Innovation Camp contest.
Google IT Support Certificate
The initiative aims to train 2,000 young people, offering them a professional certificate in computer support from Google. The target audience is young people between 18 and 29 years of age in vulnerable situations (excluded groups, unemployed, with informal jobs or with incomes below the minimum wage, etc.). In addition to offering devices and internet access, the project also has partners who can enable these young people to enter the job market.
Young people receive training in the social-emotional skills most required by employers. This course provides the basic training necessary to start a career in the information technology field. No prior knowledge or experience required, just completion of high school.
