This workshop teaches you how to manage money, set goals, select the best budgeting style and create a budget that works. Individuals will also learn the real cost of credit, common credit card practices, the proper use of credit and understanding credit scores.
ACCC offers Budget and Credit classes in English and Spanish in the Greater Boston area. Budget and Credit is also offered nationwide to consumers through our web seminar and national education program curriculum. Click here to view.
Credit Unmasked is designed for juniors and seniors in high school. The workshop explores the responsible use of credit. Topics include understanding credit and how credit affects the future. Students also participate in a real case study on the true cost of a prom and are engaged in discussions on choosing and using credit.
The Homeowner budgeting program teaches you about managing money and credit, affording a mortgage, saving at home, understanding predatory lending, and avoiding foreclosure. Participants will reduce their financial stress and reach financial goals through making better financial decisions and managing credit as homeowners. Tips are offered for energy conservation today and tomorrow, saving on homeowner's insurance, reducing home maintenance costs, managing property taxes, and other ways to save at home. Different types of loan options will be discussed along with tips to afford the mortgage and protection from predatory mortgages.
This workshop is designed to inform you on the importance of protecting your identity, with specific focus on understanding what identity theft is, how it occurs, minimizing the risks of being a victim, and what to do if you become a victim.
ACCC offers Identity Theft workshops in the Greater Boston area. It is also offered nationwide to consumers through our web seminar and national educational program curriculum. Click here to view.
American Consumer Credit Counseling presents the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Money Smart training program to help adults enhance their money skills and create positive banking relationships. The Money Smart curriculum helps build financial knowledge, develop financial confidence, and use banking services effectively.
Customized Money Smart seminars are available to community groups, non-profits, financial institutions, businesses, and schools in the Greater Boston Area. A certified credit counselor facilitates the right combination of financial education for the organization's or business' constituency. To use the Money Smart online tutorial click here.
ACCC offers the award winning National Endowment for Financial Education High School Financial Planning Program. ACCC provides this curriculum to teach money management basics, such as banking, credit, insurance, and taxes to young people while they are still developing habits and attitudes about finances.
ACCC works locally with Operation Hope in delivering a nationwide economic literacy program for youth. Classroom time is spent with 6-8th graders learning the basic concepts of budgeting, checking and savings accounts, credit, and investments through multiple one hour interactive classroom sessions.
ACCC's Spending, Saving, and Sharing program is just for children ages 4-6. This 30 minute program includes reading of a Bernstein Bears book plus piggy bank building activity.
Pre-schoolers enjoy, the Bernstein Bears and learn the value of responsible spending, saving, and sharing. In an activity-based learning lesson, children build their own piggy bank to take home with them.
ACCC provides to groups of 6 or more adults working to understand their credit report and manage credit. This 60 minute course, taught by a certified credit counselor, reviews the different sections of the credit report helping participants understand their individual reports. During the workshop, suggestions are offered for managing typical credit issues, such as mistakes on credit reports. In addition, the certified credit counselor answers participant questions regarding their credit report and credit issues throughout the program often guiding participants in managing past due accounts.
ACCC's Youth Program is designed to educate the younger consumers in our community about banking and money management. The program teaches the fundamentals of budgeting, credit and how credit works, how to establish banking relationships, and the unifying concept of spending, saving and sharing. The program targets the elementary school level through high school, and engages students with both a PowerPoint presentation and interactive games.
For more information on any of our workshops, contact:
1-800-769-3571 x 708
