Contact:

Rebeca Potasnik, Executive Director 
Washington Asset Building Coalition 
rpotasnik@washingtonabc.org 
360.977.0476 

When:

June 22, 2011 from 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
June 23, 2011 from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.


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Where:

Yakima Convention Center 
10 North 8th Street
Yakima, WA 98901-2515
 

 
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Providing High Impact Financial Education

*This post-conference training is currently full, but we are maintaining a waitlist. When you register for the conference, please indicate your interest in the training, and you will be placed on the waitlist.

This post-conference training, Providing High Impact Financial Education, is presented by Inger Giuffrida, a nationally recognized financial education expert.

The intent of this training is to provide training attendees with information about effective and engaging training strategies and a framework for choosing or developing materials to support your financial education efforts.This training will provide financial educators, financial coaches, and others working in the asset building field with:

  • Skills and knowledge to effectively facilitate financial education sessions for low income clients, and
  • Specific information on credit, asset building, principles of saving and investing, asset protection, and other core financial education topics. 

At the end of the training attendees will:

  • Increase their ability to apply the principles of adult learning to financial education.
  • Increase the number of activity ideas to use while providing financial education.
  • Increase the number of strategies for keeping participants motivated during the financial education learning process and following the conclusion of the financial education classes.
  • Have additional skills and new information to use when facilitating sessions on credit, credit reports, asset building, asset protection, the principles of saving, and investing.

Inger Giuffrida is a training and technical assistance consultant focusing on financial literacy education and asset building strategies. Inger has been working primarily as a practitioner in the microenterprise and asset development fields internationally and domestically for 15 years. Her clients have included the Corporation for Enterprise Development (CFED), NeighborWorks America, Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Association for Enterprise Opportunities, Share Our Strength, and others. Click here to read more.

Sponsored by U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Assets for Independence Program. While there is no additional cost to attend, registration is limited to 40 conference attendees. The Red Lion is extending the conference hotel rate for attendees of this training. Meals are not included, but there are numerous restaurants nearby.

For more information on the Building Assets, Strengthening Communities Conference, click here.