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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Kid’s Cash Kit and Caboodle


Timeline for implementing Kid’s Cash Kit and Caboodle

kids cash kitContact schools with which the credit union has established relationships. If the credit union does not have established relationships with involved parents, teachers or administrators of local schools, contact NYCUF to assist in making contacts.

Set dates to go into the classrooms for a Kid’s Cash Kit presentation. In preparing the materials for your presentation, keep in mind the age level and attention span of each group.

Use the public relations tool kit provided by NYCUF to spread the word about the program in your community. Materials include a sample letter to parents, sample press release that can be customized for each credit union, sample Kid’s Cash project copy for member newsletters and sample copy for Web sites.

Visit classrooms for the initial presentation. Take Kid ’s Cash Kit and Caboodle materials and discuss the concepts of saving, spending and sharing. Click here for suggested classroom activities

Follow-up Activity

Please encourage teachers to utilize the following activity, if at all possible.

  • Schools/teachers conduct a Kid’s Cash Kit Report Day. Students will be asked to show their Picture Your Dreams Poster (contained in the kit) and talk about why they chose the items on their posters. Credit union presenters will revisit schools to hear the students’ reports and acknowledge student endeavors with certificates of achievement and/or by recognition in their credit union newsletter.

 

 

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