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#FridayFollow – Goal: Financial Self-Sufficiency
Michele Godfrey is a personal financial counselor and educator who is passionate about supporting clients to make the best financial decisions for their future. Through education and resources, she helps them build skills and gain financial self-sufficiency. Along with being a Financial Readiness Program Manager (Fort Belvoir Army Garrison) and...
March 01, 2019
Read More >#FridayFollow – “A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats”
Starlett Henderson is a freelancer who has a created a work life that fits the needs of her family and those whom she serves. She provides life skills services to nonprofit organizations, government contractors, and individuals based on their particular needs and timing. Starlett began her journey with AFCPE as...
February 08, 2019
Read More >#Friday Follow: “Communicating Family Finances”
Ashley LeBaron is a family finance researcher at the University of Arizona. As a researcher, she runs statistical tests and writes papers focusing on how money influences couple relationships and how parents teach their kids about money. She and her colleagues were recently published in the latest issue of the...
January 25, 2019
Read More >Support those affected by the government shutdown
Let AFCPE raise awareness for the work you are doing to support furloughed workers! The federal government shutdown is now the longest in American history, leaving more than 800,000 government employees working without pay or placed on unpaid leave or furlough. The loss of a paycheck is leaving many individuals and...
January 16, 2019
Read More >#Friday Follow: Contribution Through Career Path
Dr. HanNa Lim, PhD is an assistant professor at Kansas State University researching and teaching personal finance. Her research focus includes college students’ financial wellness and the effects of family relationships on financial behavior. At the 2018 AFCPE Symposium, Dr. Lim and her colleague Frank Magwegwe won the Outstanding Symposium...
January 11, 2019
Read More >Resilience Starts with Financial Preparedness
Disasters and emergencies happen often with little or no warning – whether it is a fire in your house or a massive hurricane, the unexpected can take a toll on your financial planning. Being financially prepared helps disaster survivors to bounce back much more quickly from a disaster, yet research...
December 18, 2018
Read More >Coaching Your Clients: How a High Savings Rate Beats Juiced Market Returns
Many financial coaches and advisors report difficulty in working to improve their clients’ consumption patterns for the purpose of increasing their savings rates. One helpful approach in this endeavor is to provide concrete evidence of the future value that a client will receive by improving his or her consumption habits today. Compound growth...
December 10, 2018
Read More >#FridayFollow – Towards Financial Well-Being and Beyond
Edna Forero, AFC®, FFC® is the spouse of a Marine Corps veteran and the Military Family Advisory Network (MFAN) financial education manager. Over the past 22 years, Edna has worked in the financial industry to provide relevant and objective financial education and financial services to both the civilian and military communities....
November 30, 2018
Read More >Evaluate Impact: Introducing the Financial Education Evaluation Toolkit
When you teach personal finance, how do you know if the lessons are really sinking in? There is an added challenge when you teach adult and nontraditional learners in that you often don’t know participants’ level of financial literacy beforehand and, unless you follow up afterwards, there’s no way of...
November 27, 2018
Read More >#Friday Follow – AFCPE welcomes Summer Red to our team!
Earlier this month, we added a new staff member to the AFCPE team, Summer Red, AFC®. Since earning her AFC®designation in 2015, Summer has been an active member of the AFCPE community. She has taught several sessions of the AFC® Webinar Review Course to AFC candidates and served as a member...
November 23, 2018
Read More >#FridayFollow – Invest in Human Capital
Meet Yoon Lee, PhD – a professor at Utah State University in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. Since 2000, she has taught various courses on consumer and family economic issues, including bankruptcy, protection laws and surviving debt. Dr. Lee is also an active member in the AFCPE...
October 05, 2018
Read More >#FridayFollow – Financial Capacity: From Inspirations to Goals, from Goals to Efficacy
Margaret Sherraden is a social work educator focusing on the multiple dimensions of “social”. She strives to help others understand the relationship between the economic and social dimensions of people’s lives. Connecting that goal to efficacy, she has authored four books helping professionals and students worldwide grasps the concept of...
September 21, 2018
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