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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2010 Financial Education Summer Training

For complete details on sessions, locations and to register, click here.

For printable registration form, click here.

On July 20, 2010 interactive distance learning train-the-trainer sessions for the National Endowment for Financial Education® (NEFE®) High School Financial Training Program® (HSFPP) will be broadcast from Cornell University to 20 satellite locations in the following New York counties. The majority of the sessions, unless noted below, are at Cornell Cooperative Extension offices. As an alternative, NEFE offers a video orientation.

Albany  

Broome

Cayuga (Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES)

Chautauqua

Clinton        

Erie                                                

Essex

Jefferson          

Monroe

Nassau (Nassau BOCES)

New York

Niagara

Oneida

Rensselaer

Rockland

Steuben                   
Suffolk  (2 locations: CCE and a Suffolk County office bldg.)     

Tompkins                           
Warren



2010 Participating Credit Unions

Listing as of 5/22/10

Alternatives FCU (Finger Lakes)

AmeriCU Credit Union (Utica-Rome)

Capital Communications FCU (Capital)

Corning Credit Union (Finger Lakes)

Empower FCU (Central)

Family First FCU (Rochester)

First New York FCU (Capital)

Greater Chautauqua FCU

Horizons FCU (Southern Tier)

Hudson River Community CU (Adirondack)

Lancaster-Depew FCU (Buffalo)

Melrose CU (New York)

Nassau Educators FCU (Long Island)

Niagara County's FCU (Niagara)

Northern FCU (Central)

Palisades Federal Credit Union (Westchester-Rockland)

Teachers FCU (Long Island)

Ticonderoga FCU (Adirondack)

UFirst FCU (Adirondack)

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