Dollars with Sense provides students with personal money management skills and challenges them to apply these concepts in their own lives. This interactive program, facilitated by volunteers in collaboration with the classroom teacher, gives students the knowledge they need to financially manage changes in their career and life.

Key Outcomes:

-Develop a money management self-profile

-Choose appropriate forms of exchange

-Determine factors that influence their spending

-Identify steps in being a SMART consumer

-Calculate the cost of credit

-Develop awareness about consumer rights

-Identify needs, wants and financial goals

-Prepare a budget

-Differentiate services offered by financial institutions

-Demonstrate how to write a cheque

-Identify types of fraud and the protection needed

-Identify different ways to invest

For more information: https://jabc.ca/programs/dws/

To register as a volunteer, please visit jabc.ca/connect

Programs run from Sept-June during the school year throughout BC.

**With the return to in-class education, most teachers are requesting volunteers to facilitate in-person, however we have a few virtual opportunities as well. Your JABC program manager can share more details.**