SUMMER ENRICHMENT PROGRAMS

Career days give students an up-close-and-personal view of an array of occupations, especially ones they have never heard of. It can broaden their perspectives beyond classic, familiar jobs such as teacher or firefighter. We invite guest speakers from healthcare professionals, entrepreneurs, blue collar workers, military professionals, college students in sorority and fraternity from local colleges. These special guests can often show how the hobbies and goals of the elementary students are being used in the workforce, which energized the children and made them feel both validated and valuable.” 

At ICare Connect we promote youth entrepreneurship by teaching the students how to recognize opportunities, solve problems, inspire resilience within the students, financial literacy, goal setting and technology skills. We inspire the students of ICare Connect to be creative, daring people and recognize their personal strength and areas of development.

A Kid's Guide to Money ebook from the Cleveland Reserve Bank on how you can make your own best decisions about money? It's always the right time to learn more about financial decision-making. This interactive book along with the video introduces concepts like earning, spending, and saving in an exciting and fun way. Education Standards National Content Standards in Economics - Scarcity, Decision Making, Allocation, Money and Inflation, Income and Entrepreneurship. Learning  National Standards for Financial Literacy, Earning Income, Buying Goods and Services, Saving. Discussing National JumpStart Standards in Personal Financial Education, Spending and Saving, Employment and Income, Financial Decision Making, English Language Arts - Literacy Standards, History and Social Studies, Reading - Foundational Skills Reading - Informational Text, Speaking and Listening, Writing, Mathematics, Algebra, Counting and Cardinality, Number and Quantity. We also create an oversize check in the amount they choose to take home and hang it on the student wall. Although this is fun for them, it teaches them to write out the number they dream of in dollar amounts and cents. We also play the game of monopoly to end our day of kid's financial class for kids.