Junior Achievement of Central Texas is committed to ensuring the health and safety of our volunteers, students, teachers and staff during this public health crisis. We want to assure you that we are being vigilant of ongoing updates and are following best practices in conjunction with the recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Texas Department of State and Health Services. We have also been in communication with our school partners as the situation progresses.
At this time, we are suspending all JA student programs/experiences involving JA volunteer personal interactions with students until April 30th. At that time, we will re-assess the situation and make decisions about how to move forward.
JA Programs
JA's traditional in-class program delivery model is built around volunteers coming into the classroom so that students can learn from the expertise of professionals who work in their communities. With the outbreak of COVID-19, we are adjusting our model to meet the needs of our communities, including teacher-led programming and virtual program delivery. Over the next week while schools are on spring break, we will be working to implement alternative methods of delivery so that students do not miss out on JA Programs.
JA Volunteers
Junior Achievement will be in communication with our current classroom volunteers to outline next steps while programs are suspended. We will also be adjusting our delivery to allow more flexibility for virtual volunteers and teacher delivery. Moving forward we will continue to monitor the situation in regards to programming scheduled for later in the school semester. Please know that we will update you with these decisions via our website, social media, and email platforms.
JA Special Events
At this time, for the health of our community we have made the decision to postpone the JA F.E.M. Forum scheduled for April 2nd. We will contact attendees with our new date as more information becomes available. All sponsorships will be honored at the time of the rescheduled event.
We would like to thank all of our volunteers, corporate partners, and friends of Junior Achievement of Central Texas for their continued faith in our mission of empowering students to achieve their dreams.
We ask parents, families, employees, volunteers and companies to stay up-to-date on information, employ disease-prevention strategies, and trust only reliable sources including those found below:
