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Youth Opportunity Route

  • Program Description

YORLOGOYouth Opportunity Route supports independent youth with a successful transition to adulthood through financial literacy, money management, and asset building. Youth access matched savings to obtain housing, pay for education and training costs, purchase tools and equipment for work, establish or expand a small business, purchase or lease a personal vehicle, or obtain prescription eyewear or dental care. Youth are eligible to participate in Youth Opportunity Route for a two-year period in order to build their savings and explore various employment and educational opportunities.

Targeting independent youth between the ages of 16 and 24 who are experiencing housing instability or homelessness and are interested in gaining assets to assist them with their goals.

The goal of the Youth Opportunity Route is that youth successfully transition to adulthood, meaning Youth are ready for post-secondary education, ready for work, ready to give and ready to live a balanced personal life.

  • Youth increase their knowledge of money management
  • Youth increase their personal assets (financial and social)
  • Youth gain and retain living wage employment
  • Youth acquire sufficient education to obtain adequate employment

Activities:

  • Participants complete financial literacy workshops, covering topics of Budgeting, Banking and Credit, Consumerism, and Assets.
  • Participants set an asset goal and establish a matched savings account. Participants have access to a 2 to 1 match of their savings (up to a maximum of $2400 in match funds over 2 years).
  • Participants have access to financial assistance through an incentive program to bolster their savings (up to $500 per year)
  • Participants have access to networking opportunities focused on various skill building activities and enhanced connections to employment, educational, and community resources.

YORBrochure

Click Here for the Youth Opportunity Route Brochure

Contact:

Nancy Lui, Youth Opportunity Route Navigator
Direct Line: 403.450.3409
Fax: 403.265.2458
nancy.lui@calgaryjohnhoward.org

 

 

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