Focusing primarily on inner-city low-income neighborhoods in and surrounding Los Angeles, we conduct various workshops, seminars, and hold events for young people. We would educate these individuals on economic issues facing their communities, while helping them understand finances, business, and the value of money. While we currently only conduct workshops, if we receive enough positive feedback, we are hoping to hold weekly classes this spring to fully educate out youth.
During these weekly classes, we would teach our youth how to balance a budget, read and understand an income statement, create a successful business plan, and understand the basic principals of economics. Through this we also play numerous career games to broaden their prospectives on jobs and careers, while showing the benefits and setbacks of many popular choices. During these programs, students would engage in cooperative learning, while learning more about their communities. We would also assist young people with their educational decisions, and inform them of career opportunities, current events, internships, and college visits in their surrounding area.
If you are an educator, religious leader, sports instructor, interested student or parent, or any other individual directly correlated with the youth, please email me at opaldillard@gmail.com or respond to this blog for an appointment for a possible workshop or seminar to young people.
Also, if you are interested in an economic empowerment weekly class, for the spring semester, please email me at opaldillard@gmail.com, or respond to this blog. :-)