Announcing a Series of AFI-Sponsored Financial Education Training Academies
The AFI Resource Center is pleased to announce a series of two-day Financial Education Academies for AFI grantees and other financial educators. These sessions, conducted as “train-the-trainer” sessions for staff that deliver or manage financial education will be presented in various locations throughout the country. These sessions are offered free of charge (no registration fee), but attendees will need to pay their own travel costs; however, travel stipends are available for AFI grantees. Two different academies will be offered: Level One and Level Two. Please read on for a description of these sessions. In addition to the training sessions, at some locations we will also offer a Technical Assistance clinic where participants can get small group or one-on-one assistance on financial education needs.
Training One:
Content and Skills for Making Financial Education Effective and Engaging: Financial Education Training for Trainers. This training provides the foundation for making financial education accessible, engaging relevant and actionable for AFI participants. This training is designed for new AFI staff or individuals with less than three years of direct financial education experience. Practitioners with more experience have found the training extremely beneficial, too.
Training Two:
Content and Skills for Making Financial Education Effective and Engaging: Financial Education Training for Trainers: The Next Level. This training picks up where Level One ends and is designed for those who attended Level One previously or who have three or more years of direct financial education experience. The training is designed to provide AFI grantees and others with opportunities to further develop their financial education delivery skills and content knowledge on advanced financial education topics. The training includes the following topics:
- Using and combining different approaches to deliver financial education and the level of outcome/impact to be expected using these approaches.
- Applying the core concepts of behavioral economics to financial education program design.
- Using new activity ideas in the context of financial education.
- Keeping participants motivated during the financial education learning process and using new skills, resources and financial management services/products as a result of financial education efforts.
- Facilitating sessions on:
- principles of saving and investing in the new economy
- asset protection
- consumer protections including consumer rights and responsibilities
- credit scores
Integrating concepts of media and economic literacy into financial education efforts. Facilitating sessions on budgeting for people at different stages of life. Training Three:
Effective Financial Education for Post-Secondary Education. The purpose of this training is to provide AFI Grantees with the opportunity to further develop their financial education facilitation skills and content knowledge on topics related to post-secondary education. Topics will include:
- How paying for post-secondary education (direct and indirect, i.e., living expenses) impacts budget and cash flow
- How financing options impact net worth
- Estimating tuition and cost of living costs
- Figuring out how to pay for post-secondary education and training financing options
- Understanding loans and how people get into trouble with loans
- How to most effectively use the IDA with other post-secondary education and training financing options
- Understanding accreditation and the different kinds of schooling options available
- Identifying the predatory side of post-secondary education and training provision and financing
- Helping participants get the best return on their investment in education and training; connecting training with careers
- And more.
The locations and dates of trainings to be offered are as follows:
- Tallahassee, FL on February 1 and 2 (Training One)
- Murfreesboro, TN on February 28 and 29 (Training Two)
- Philadelphia, PA on April 17 and 18 (Training Two)
- Santa Fe, NM on April 23 and 24 (Training Two)
- San Francisco, CA on June 25 and 26 (Training Two)
- San Francisco, CA on June 27 (Training Three)
Trainings One and Two will start at 9 a.m. on day one and end at 3:30 p.m. on day two. Training Three will start at 9 a.m. and end at 4 p.m.
Travel Reimbursements Available to AFI Grantees:
For AFI grantees only, a $600 travel stipend reimbursement is available to help offset travel costs to the Financial Education Academy. Please indicate your interest in receiving information about this reimbursement when registering for the training.
Technical Assistance Clinics Available:
At the Tennessee, New Mexico and Pennsylvania trainings, we will also offer a “Technical Assistance Clinic” during the evening of the first day of the training. At this clinic, you will be able to meet in small group or one-on-one with a financial educator to discuss issues or concerns and to get assistance on those topics.
To Register:
If you are interested in attending one of these sessions, please complete the registration form. Confirmation and additional information about the session will be emailed to you.
If you have any questions, please contact the AFI Resource Center at: info.