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.

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As your teenage son or daughter gets older, financial skills become more and more important. By learning those skills now, they can avoid harmful decisions and shape a more secure, exciting future.


With the Money & Me program, your teen can learn about budgeting, saving, maintaining a checking account, managing credit, planning for the future and more. Money & Me uses award-winning curriculum and hands-on activities to make financial lessons fun and engaging, so teens leave feeling educated and confident about making responsible financial decisions.


Credit unions typically offer Money & Me in their communities during summer, winter and spring breaks. To learn more about the program, or to locate a Money & Me session near you, check out the Money & Me website designed just for teens and encourage your son or daughter to as well!

To learn more about financial education programs in your area, contact Diane LaVigna-Wixted, executive director of the New York Credit Union Foundation (NYCUF) at diane.lavigna-wixted@cuany.org or (800) 342-9835, ext. 8186.

This program has been sponsored, in part, by the National Credit Union Foundation.

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