"Give your students a deeper understanding of money management using a curriculum offered by Choices & Decisions: Taking charge of your financial life™. This program is designed to teach young people how to set long and short-term personal and financial goals; create and work with a personal budget; identify how and when to use credit; save and invest, understand the basics of banking services and develop character and confidence. The materials can easily be adapted for use in a wide variety of instructional settings including high schools, colleges and adult education programs.

Start making a difference with your students today. Select specific lessons or in-class activities or download everything as a PDF file."

Choices & Decisions Introduction

Decisions & Goals: Making Decisions; Making Money; The Art of Budgeting;

Loans & Expenses: Student Loans; Living on your Own; Buying a Home; Cars and Loans

Banking & Credit: Banking Services; Saving and Investing; About Credit; Credit Cards

Consumer Knowledge: Influence of Advertising; Consumer Awareness; In Trouble; About Consumer Privacy

Money Stories is a series of 8 lessons dealing with financial matters of everyday life. The Money Stories Program originated when Elders at the Aboriginal Seniors Resource Centre (in Winnipeg, MB) had the idea that money management training should be taught to Indigenous youth with a focus on Indigenous values, culture, and traditional teachings. The Money Stories Curriculum was then developed and tweaked by current and past SEED Winnipeg Inc. staff.Everyone is welcome to review the Money Stories Curriculum presented here. Note: the attached materials are read-only.  SEED Winnipeg Inc. kindly requests that organizations contact them directly via email or phone to request a printable version of the instructor’s manual and to order printed versions of the workbook (there will be a fee to recover costs for the workbook).  Interested organizations should have like-minded goals and values that support individuals in any of these areas: financial empowerment, education, job readiness, or life skills training.  Someone with facilitation experience is an asset.

Mental Wellness – Basics is a course that introduces adolescents to concepts related to mental health and wellness. Stigma associated with mental health can have serious and negative impacts on help-seeking behaviors, and many mental health conditions and symptoms can be significantly lessened through prevention. As such, this course will do the following:

Support students in identifying threats to mental health early, and taking measures to increase factors that protect mental health.
Attempt to reduce stigma by introducing students to the experiences of others in order to develop awareness and empathy, as well as by providing facts on the prevalence and symptoms of mental health conditions.
Foster a mental health mindset in students and help them develop feelings of self-efficacy by introducing knowledge and skills that promote and model advocacy for self and others.

This Course Covers
Self Awareness
Self Management
Relationship Skills
Social Awareness
Responsible Decision-Making

Free online courses Money Moccasins- momentum presented by Indigenous Financial Empowerment Facilitator Theodora WarriorHealy at https://courses.momentum.org/account/my-courses# You need to sign up to get an account and then work through the courses. The goal of the program is to give participants more confidence when they walk into a bank or talk to a financial advisor. Opening accounts, RRSPs for kids and tax-free savings accounts are just some of the topics discussed. The program uses a combination of storytelling and knowledge sharing that is a common way for indigenous people to learn from each other. In this case they sit together and talk about finances and gain financial empowerment that a lot of people have not had access to before. Participants who attend all five workshops (Assets, Budget, Banking, Credit, and Consumerism) receive a certificate of completion that can be applied to their credit report.

"The world of money is one area where many people often feel they lack control. Many, if not most, Canadians never had much in the way of financial education – at school or from parents. We hope to change that for the next generation. [Note to Parents and Teachers – Guides are with each Module.]"

Module 1 - Your Money Decisions: Who's in Control
Module 2 - Your Goals and Values
Module 3 - Your Goals: Some Things to Consider
Module 4 - Decision Making
Module 5 - Sources of Income
Module 6 - Career Under Construction: Investing in You
Module 7 - Are You an Entrepreneur?
Module 8 - Money Basics
Module 9 - Taking Control of your Money
Module 10 - Spending on Major Purchases
Module 11 - Borrowing Money
Module 12 - Getting and Managing Credit
Module 13 - Putting Your Money to Work: Saving and Investing
Module 14 - Protecting Assets - and Planning for Financial Independence

This section contains the full PDF version of Money and Youth and Teacher Guides for each Module and Money and Youth Connections to Financial Literacy 20 and 30 Curriculum Modules. Module 1: Your Money Decisions: Who's in Control, Module 2: Your Goals and Your Values, Module 3: Your Goals: Some Things To Consider, Module 4: Decision-making, Module 5: Sources Of Income, Module 6: Career Under Construction: Investing In You, Module 7: Are You an Entrepreneur?, Module 8: Money Basics, Module 9: Taking Control Of Your Money, Module 10: Spending On Major Purchases, Module 11: Borrowing Money, Module 12: Getting And Managing Credit, Module 13: Putting Your Money To Work – Saving And Investing, Module 14: Protecting Assets – And Planning For Financial Independence

Sheena Iyengar studies how we make choices -- and how we feel about the choices we make. At TEDGlobal, she talks about both trivial choices (Coke v. Pepsi) and profound ones, and shares her groundbreaking research that has uncovered some surprising attitudes about our decisions. Sheena Iyengar studies how people choose (and what makes us think we're good at it). A quiz, thought provoking question, and links for further study are provided to create a lesson around the 24-minute video. Educators may use the platform to easily "Flip" or create their own lesson for use with their students of any age or level.

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