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


Parents Play an Important Role

Parents play a vital role in helping their children develop the basic financial knowldege and skills they will need as they begin making more complex financial decisions during their high school, college, and adult years.

kids cash kitThe Kid’s Cash Kit and Caboodle materials provide parents with simple yet effective resources to teach their children, in a hands-on manner, respect for money’s three distinct purposes: spending, saving, and sharing.

The New York Credit Union Foundation (NYCUF) carries on this wise tradition by encouraging money exploration and individual creativity with the Kid’s Cash Moneyboxes. Parents can use the Moneyboxes and related materials to help their children learn to establish goals, how to use money (save, spend, share) received from allowances, gifts and odd jobs, develop foundational financial planning and budgeting skills, and learn about the importance of giving back to their community (e.g., volunteering).

Contact your local credit union and your child’s school to let them know about the Kid’s Cash Kit and Caboodle program.

Click here to learn more about What’s in the Kit and What is the Caboodle.

Using the Kid’s Cash Kit and Caboodle

Using the Kid’s Cash Kit and Caboodle program is simple—everything is included in the kit.  Several resource guides and booklets provide parents with interesting hands-on activities (by age level) they can do with their children, from ages 5 to 12, to help them learn basic money management skills

Additional Resources

New York State credit unions are outstanding financial education resources for teachers, and are willing to provide materials and visit classrooms to discuss various financial education topics. Click here to learn more about credit unions and locate a credit union in your area.

In addition to the Kid’s Cash Kit and Caboodle materials, some other resources for teachers include the Jump$tart Coalition Web site, the Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide Web site, and the U.S. Financial Literacy and Education Commission My Money for Kids Web site. 

The New York Credit Union Foundation (NYCUF) has also assembled a listing of various financial literacy Internet resources.

 

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