Get a tour of the new refreshed Money Management Essentials course! This new version of the course retains much of the great content from the original course, but supplements it with new activities and a transformed participant experience. It gives you the chance to be the counselor as you walk through counseling scenarios, and allows you to engage with the material with […]

Financial therapy is the integration of emotion, thoughts, behavior, relationships, and its effect on financial and overall well-being. Financial therapists tap into one or more of these areas to help clients make changes to improve individual, couple, and family financial and overall well-being. This presentation introduces basic concepts of financial therapy, including what it is, clients’ money beliefs, 2-3 tools […]

This annual professional development opportunity is designed for Extension professionals. The Cooperative Extension Service provides non-formal education and learning activities throughout the country. It is essential for states to work together to determine national needs and focus. This pre-symposium will include Ignite Sessions promoting our work, updates from key partners such as eXtension, NIFA, NEFE, and CFPB, and round table […]

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the preeminent civil rights legislation that specifically provides protection to people with disabilities. The proper goals of the ADA are to assure equality of opportunity, full participation, independent living, and economic self-sufficiency for people with disabilities. This session will highlight key components of the ADA such as an individual’s right in disclosing their […]

Financial literacy and well-being efforts are often born out of passion, developed quickly, and deployed with an optimistic view of what lies ahead. This activation method of programming is encouraging and reflects the passion and urgency of what we as practitioners are trying to accomplish. Regrettably, the data has shown that most financial literacy and well-being efforts fail to produce […]