Youth Financial Literacy: Preparing Youth for Financial Responsibility

This important book offers suggestions for developing formal financial curricula in schools; building community awareness of the need for financial education; and getting parents, educators, administrators, and students involved in the process. Youth Financial Literacy includes ways to educate young members on the value of saving, strategies for managing personal finances, and healthy credit practices.

It also covers:

• Developing highly focused relationships with youth
• Strengthening relationships with parents
• Providing training seminars for youth and parents
• Building rapport with school systems
• Becoming involved in community programs for youth
• Preparing Internet pages to educate youth
• Developing a youth program as part of the credit union’s overall objectives and goals

Youth Financial Literacy illustrates how easy it is to develop savings, investment, lending, share draft, and other programs for youth. It provides case studies of specific credit unions’ youth programs, classroom presentations, community activities, seminars, and special promotions. It also features an annotated bibliography of resources to help prepare youth for financial literacy.