The National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE®) offers the award-winning High School Financial Planning Program® (HSFPP), a free and flexible curriculum that has been proven to change students’ knowledge, actions and self-confidence about managing their money.
Money & Me is a hands-on experience that teaches teenagers the basics of money and how to make it work for them. The program covers budgeting, credit advantages and pitfalls, savings and checking accounts, how to save for a big purchase and investing for the future.
The brass|Student Program provides high schools with access to brass|Magazine, a personal finance publication written by young adults that delivers relevant content for classroom discussions and activities. The program also includes online resource centers for teachers and students, and the Credit Unions for College scholarship database.

LifeSmarts…the Ultimate Consumer Challenge is a game show style competition for teenagers designed to better prepare them as responsible consumers in today’s dynamic marketplace. Questions cover personal finance, consumer rights and responsibilities, health and safety, technology and the environment.

Biz Kid$ is a fun, 30-minute PBS television series for kids about making and managing money. It highlights young entrepreneurs who have turned hobbies into successful businesses, raised funds for good causes and much more.

The Kid’s Cash Kit & Caboodle includes practical, hands-on tools to teach children and their families the basics of money management using the concepts of saving, spending and sharing.

Who Are You? Identity Thieves Really Want to Know! is an educational program that utilizes marketing materials, train-the-trainer workshops and instructive sessions to help credit unions and community organizations inform their members about the dangers of identity theft.

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Consumer Video Materials for Credit Unions

The New York Credit Union Foundation is working with credit unions across the state to increase consumer awareness about identity theft. 

The campaign educates New Yorkers about how to be safe and protect themselves from becoming victims of fraudulent activity through public service announcements and educational videos.

A series of five, 15-second public service announcements, available in English and Spanish, feature Assembly Minority Leader James N. Tedisco (R-District 110) and Assemblyman Peter M. Rivera (D-District 76), respectively. The PSAs aired on NYS television stations in the fall of 2008.

PSA 1 How Personal Information is Obtained

PSA 2 Impact on Victims

PSA 3 How to Minimize Risk

PSA 4 Credit Reports

PSA 5 When You’re a Victim

The educational videos are available in two formats on a single DVD (DVDs are available in either English or Spanish language versions):

  1. A series of five 2-3 minute educational video segments with separate introduction and close, or
  2. One, 15-minute looping video that includes an introduction from either Assemblyman Tedisco (English language) or Assemblyman Rivera (Spanish language), all five 2-3 minute video segments and closing remarks by Mindy Bockstein, chairperson and executive director of the NYS Consumer Protection Board. 

Topics of the five 2-3 minute educational video segments are expanded versions of the PSA topics:

How Personal Information is Obtained

Impact on Victims

How to Minimize Risk

Credit Reports

When You’re a Victim

Closing remarks by Mindy Bockstein

For more information about the Identity Theft Awareness Campaign or to order DVDs, contact us.

 

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