INVEST

Helping students acquire the necessary financing options to achieve career goals
While the cost of education and training continues to rise, the Schwab Foundation and its partners know that there are creative and innovative ways that students can access and afford the types of training actually necessary to achieve career goals.

Our partners have generated a series of resources that will help educators, parents and students, understand the cost of various training programs, where the best values are hidden, and what types of traditional or nontraditional financing options may be available. 

Understanding the options and the implications that come with education and training financing is important and necessary as students consider what credentials they are already on track to achieve and what additional credentials they want to GO for in the future. 
The ASK Curriculum activates Indiana Career Explorer to help students understand what it will take to INVEST in their post-high school training. 
Invest: Grade 6              Invest: Grade 10
Invest: Grade 7              Invest: Grade 11
Invest: Grade 8              Invest: Grade 12
​Invest: Grade 9
Junior Achievement of Northern Indiana has a number of rich materials to help students understand not only the cost of education and training but also the personal finance aspect of investing in their future. 
  • JA My Way and JA Career Discovery address the cost of training and education associated with specific careers. 
  • In support of eLearning, JA of Northern Indiana has created a series of videos for students
  • JA Personal Finance®  is a series of videos to help high school students understand financial responsibility as a critical element of investing in one's future.
  • JA Finance Park is an in-classroom experience for students to learn about lifelong financial issues such as incomes, budgets, personal and family expenses, savings, and retirement planning. Following the in-class experience, students visit the Lincoln Finance Park.
The Northeast Indiana Internship Professional Development virtual series has a session to help college or high school students think about financial responsibility during and after college or starting a career. Please share with any students you know that may be interested. 
Registration is required and seating is limited
Schwab Foundation funded I-Complete Scholarship is designed to support a student in the completion of an academic or industry-recognized credential.  The award eliminates any financial barriers including tuition, fees, consumables, textbooks, mandated supplies. Olive B. Cole Foundation funded Scholarship is designed to support students residing in DeKalb, LaGrange, Noble, and Steuben Counties in the completion of an academic or industry-recognized credential.  The award eliminates any financial barriers including tuition, fees, consumables, textbooks, mandated supplies.    
"It (JA Finance Park) really opened my eyes on how I need to plan for the future."

Mia, 8th Grade, Riverview Middle School