Financial Education
GreenPath Debt Solutions is committed to financial education. We provide it regularly to the individuals who come to us for debt counseling and to groups in the communities we serve. In addition to our debt counseling, housing counseling, credit report counseling and other one-on-one services, GreenPath also:
Provides tools and resources for self-study. Many people use GreenPath's tools and tips and library of articles to find helpful information on their own. Our proprietary budgeting software, BudgetSmart, is a tool that helps people create and track household budgets. Other resources include a self-study program called Credit When Credit is Due and the latest book from GreenPath titled Debt Free in Due Time.
Delivers group presentations and community workshops. Each year our counselors provide hundreds of financial education presentations and workshops to participants at local schools, churches, businesses, and community organizations. If you are interested in scheduling a presentation or purchasing materials to hold a workshop, please send an e-mail to education@greenpath.com.
Offers financial education programs and tools to organizations. For businesses or community groups interested in offering their own financial education workshops, GreenPath offers tested and proven financial education workshop booklets and tools including handouts, audio visuals and more. Workshops include:
- The American Dream
- Understanding Your Credit Report
- New Directions
- Surviving a Layoff or Job Change
- Steps to Financial Freedom
- Saving to Achieve Your Goals
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- Kids and Money
- College Bound
- Identity Theft
- Why We Buy – The Psychology of Spending
- Be Credit Wise
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Additionally, through its Web-based education application, CheckRight™ (www.checkright.org), GreenPath delivers practical financial education to a wide variety of audiences, from young adults who have not yet had banking and borrowing experience to others in the community who have — until very recently — preferred to be “unbanked.” The CheckRight audience seeks more knowledge on managing checking accounts in addition to other financial education topics. And GreenPath delivers. Send a message to education@greenpath.com for more information about these resources.
Promotes and teaches financial literacy to youth. Through its youth financial education program, Banking Is (www.learntobank.com), GreenPath delivers effective financial education to high-school students all over the country. Subjects range from managing a bank account to budgeting and borrowing money, to establishing credit and more. And the best news? This financial education program is offered at no-charge to educators! Please contact us at bankingis@greenpath.com for more information.
Through annual participation in the NFCC’s “Be Money Wise” poster contest, (www.greenpath.com/poster-contest.htm) GreenPath also engages students in promoting financial literacy to one another. Students who enter the contest can win prizes, recognition and the chance to compete in the national competition held in Washington, DC, in April, (Financial Literacy Month). The initiative promotes the importance of wise money management while providing K-12 instructors with an easy and exciting way to bring financial literacy into their classrooms.