Model Youth Program Guide

Want to create a youth program at your credit union? Want to make an existing youth program more effective? CUNA’s new Model Youth Program Guide draws upon credit union best practices and proven techniques to show in detail how to raise children and teenagers to full and productive membership.

With checklists, sample documents, and descriptions of productive methods, the Model Youth Program Guide lays a course for improving weak youth programs or creating new ones from scratch to meet the needs of individual credit unions and their members. The Guide covers the full range of essential ingredients for youth program success, from building support among colleagues to evaluating results, in the following chapters:

Why Financial Education?

• What Makes a Youth Program Effective
• Teaching to Spend, Save and Manage Money
• Teaching to Borrow
• Working With Schools
• Student-Run In-School Branches
• Communicating with Youth
• Youth Outside the Mainstream
• Planning Logistics and Budget
• Measuring Progress and Success

See the table of contents
See a sample page from Chapter 1
See a sample page from Chapter 2
See a sample page from Chapter 3

A single hard copy of the Model Youth Program Guide, with no duplication rights, costs $99.

Also available :

• as an Adobe PDF