Ohio FCCLA Financial Literacy

 Financial Literacy Resources:

 America Saves - All over America young people just like you are proving that you don’t have to be older or rich to build wealth. As members of FCCLA Saves, they are saving to reach their financial goals and prepare for their future.  FCCLA Saves can help, with tips and tools to help you set goals, develop strategies to reach those goals, and start saving.  Enroll in FCCLA Saves and start making your dreams a reality.

American Bankers Association Education Foundation (ABA) - Serving its members by enhancing the role of financial services institutions as the preeminent providers of financial services.

Family Economics and Financial Education (FEFE) - Providing educators with no-cost curriculum materials and the skills and confidence to effectively teach family economics and finance to their students.

Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy - A national coalition of organizations dedicated to improving the financial literacy of kindergarten through college-age youth by providing advocacy, research, standards and educational resources. Jump$tart strives to prepare youth for life-long successful financial decision-making.

National Endowment for Financial Education (NEFE) - Helping individual Americans acquire the knowledge and skills necessary to take control of their financial destiny.

USA Today Education - Providing custom-made teacher guides that correlate to any issue of USA TODAY, providing lessons, activities, and project ideas that cut across the disciplines. And, in having your students read, analyze, interpret, evaluate and research in USA TODAY, you will be preparing them for their standards of learning in a fresh, energizing way while simultaneously developing civic-minded, socially aware and globally conscious students.

Visa USA and Practical Money Skills for Life - Financial literacy is a growing problem in our over spending and under earning society. Practical Money Skills for Life is a teacher tested, teacher approved financial literacy curriculum developed by Visa Inc. that offers an abundance of financial information and learning tools for teachers, students, and parents.

-- All are partners with the National FCCLA Association --

 Wiley Publishing - For Dummies!

(Above) Members of the 2007-2008 FCCLA National Executive Council, FCCLA National Staff, and Wiley Publishing pose for a picture in the rain at the National Leadership Conference in Orlando, Florida!