College, Careers, & Cash
The College, Careers, & Cash program is a financial empowerment curriculum designed to help Delaware students envision and plan for their future. This program is being implemented at selected schools; contact your local high school to determine their level of engagement.
Stand By Me: NexGen’s College, Careers, & Cash program offers financial literacy education for high school students that will successfully put them on the pathway to post-secondary education and careers. Our constantly-evolving programming consists of interactive and engaging classroom workshops that help students understand the connection between making good decisions and being successful adults.
Program goals:
- Connect the dots between career pathways, post-secondary education, and lifestyle
- Integrate financial literacy into existing school curriculum to build an understanding of how much money is needed to support lifestyle goals
- Demonstrate the connections between higher education and career opportunities
- Allow students to identify post-secondary options that best fit their career plans
- Engage school faculty, staff, and administration to work in partnership with this project
Envision
At the conclusion of CCC: Envision, students will be able to:
- Describe their desired lifestyle in 10 years’ time
- Associate educational attainment, employability, and earning potential
- Determine which post-secondary options best fit their career plans
- Identify an occupation of interest and its base details, including:
- Educational requirements
- Median and entry-level pay
- Job growth
- Tasks performed
- Give examples of qualities required for an occupation of interest
- Develop a budget for tracking earnings and expenses
- Classify various banking and financial products and services
- Explain the concept of credit and its impact on their finances
What Students Are Saying About CCC
“The most important thing I learned was how much it really costs to live on your own. If you want to have a nice lifestyle, then you have to have a great education to achieve that goal.”
“I learned a lot about finance, education, and professions that I could go into after participating in College, Careers, & Cash.”
“I learned how to budget both actively and predicatively and how to manage the breakdown of a monthly income.”
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