Free Financial Literacy Classes

The Sumner/Bonney Lake Family Center is offering free financial literacy classes and hosting a free job and resource fair for families. Please register today as classes fill up quickly!

KEY TO CHANGE financial literacy classes start April 8
 

Learn money management

Key to Change is a free course in money management to help build financial stability and independence. This five week course covers banking basics, budgeting, debt management, investing, homeownership and the skills you need to make sound financial decisions for yourself and your family.

Small classes ensure a supportive learning environment with the goal of giving each student smart money management skills and a real “key to change” their financial future. Besides the knowledge of what to do with your money, those completing the course receive a free credit report and score.

Fridays - April 8, 15, 22, 29 and May 6, 2011

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Sumner/Bonney Lake Family Center (Portable #1) on the campus of Daffodil Valley Elementary School located at 1509 Valley Avenue in Sumner.

Cost is FREE!

About the Financial Literacy classes*

• Banking Basics – Learn about types of bank accounts, bank transactions, ATMs and how to overcome past banking problems. Information will include basic knowledge of where money comes from and how to keep it safe.
• Managing Your Money – Learn how to effectively use your check register to balance your account. Also learn how to build your consumer skills to avoid predatory lending and when to assert your consumer rights.
• Goal Setting – Developing financial goals by learning about your money personality and why you spend money the way you do. Also learn to recognize needs versus wants when making spending decisions.
• Creating a Spending Plan – Identify your expense-to-income ratio, create your spending plan, and answer the question: What’s in it for me?
• Borrowing Money – Increase your credit IQ, from start to finish. Plus, learn about car loans, home loans and the benefits of good credit.
• Investing in Yourself – Take the first step to investing in your future and find out how to get started. Discover the steps you can take to afford insurance, college or a home.
• Insurance Planning – Everything you need to know about buying car insurance, renters/homeowners insurance, medical insurance, and life insurance.
• Your Credit Report – Get a free copy of your credit report, review it and learn strategies for improving it. Find out how good credit simplifies your life.
• Negotiating with Creditors – Meet with a counselor from Consumer Counseling Northwest to learn how to negotiate with creditors.
• Home Ownership 101 – Learn some home-buying basics including questions to ask and terminology used when buying that first home. 

What Do You Get?

• Knowledge
• Free Credit Report & Score
• Certificate of Completion

Registration is Required

Contact LuAnn Ugas at the Sumner/Bonney Lake Family Center at 253.891.6535 or by e-mail to:  luann_ugas@sumnersd.org.