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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Money & Me

 

What would you like your teenager to know about money?

 

A free program that gives teens the basics they need is being piloted through the efforts of several credit unions throughout New York State. For just five mornings this summer (dates and times vary by location), Money & Me teaches the essentials on a range of must-know topics: 

  • Financial planning and budgeting
  • Savings and checking accounts and ID Theft
  • Credit: the good and the bad
  • Investing for the future
  • Saving and shopping for a big purchase and insurance

In economic times like these, financial literacy is more important than ever, and the lessons from Money & Me could last your teenager a lifetime.

To find out more about this program, please contact Diane LaVigna-Wixted, executive director of the New York Credit Union Foundation at diane.lavigna-wixted@cuany.org or (800) 342-9835, ext. 8186.

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