Sierra House Entrepreneur Leadership Program (SHELP) is a community-based volunteer program that operates in partnership with urban schools to teach students business ownership and managerial skills. The classes will be arranged to portray a business-like environment, and all lessons will use real-life business scenarios. Students will gain social, leadership, decision-making, and business-ownership skills. They will learn how to work together as a team and to develop a solid work ethic. SHELP will inform its students of productive options that are available.

This six-month program will accommodate up to twenty eleventh-grade students. Classes will be held once a month after school or on Saturdays for 1 hour and 30 minutes by arrangement of school personnel at the student’s current school.

SHELP is scheduled to begin next year. The Sierra House’s staff has already coordinated with several schools who wish to offer this program.