Youth Financial Inter-Cooperative (YFIC)
The YFIC program is a program targeted toward high school students. This interactive program teaches students sound financial principles as students work toward building wealth. Once a week, for 16 weeks, YFIC facilitators (college students) return to high school and teach students from the NEFE workbook. This seven-unit, nationally recognized workbook covers goal-setting, budgeting, investing and many other age-appropriate subjects.
Mr. CoolMoney and the Gang
This program teaches young people through middle school the basics of financial literacy. Mr. Cool Money befriends Billy Dollar, Sammie Cents and Maxine Check to help him destroy the Debt Monster. Following the philosophy, “Each one, Teach One,” Mr Cool Money and the Gang solicit help from youth to join them in their quest to expose the debt traps of the Debt Monster by sharing financial literacy with their family and friends.
Family Achievement Chart Systems (FACS)
The Family Achievement Chart System (FACS) is a tool to be utilized by the family as a whole to develop strong money management skills. Families will develop a budget. As a family unit, each member will be held accountable for “doing his/her part”. The FACS chart includes personal, special, chores, and work/school goals for each week. Each member, upon completion of the designated task, is awarded a certain sum of money which, then, goes into the weekly “bank”. During the weekend, this money can be applied toward a family outing (short-term goal) or could be placed toward the family’s trip to Disney World (long-term goal), for example. Overall, the purpose of the FACS system is to instill important life values such as, hard work, the value of money and family togetherness all while modeling skills such as, accountability, delayed gratification, discipline, goal-setting, prioritizing, saving, and teamwork, as well as others, all while learning to maintain a budget.
TeenView Magazine
TEENVIEW Magazine is an empowerment program that motivates teens to go forward in life and enables teens to do positive things in the community; therefore setting an example for their peers as well. TEENVIEW’s plan is to use participating students representing all Wichita area high schools to impact the community by doing projects and activities. TEENVIEW plans to work with the community to host fun and educational events for the youth, allow the youth to go on fun and empowering trips, and to provide an avenue for the Wichita teen’s voice to be heard. Hear more from our teens @ www.teenviewmagazine.com. TEENVIEW Magazine…“a magazine for teens, by teens, from a teen’s point of view”.
Grow Your Own Boss
GYOB is a program designed as a method of exposing high school students to entrepreneurship. GYOB will include lectures from successful local entrepreneurs and a contest to create a business plan for a new entrepreneurial business judged at a “Business Expo” by the guest lecturers.
