Belknap County

Money Management Education focusing on reducing debt, increasing savings, managing credit wisely, and developing a spending/savings plan.

Available Programs and Workshops:

One Hour Workshops: These short, topic specific workshops are offered at no cost throughout the community and can be presented to community groups, organizations, or at worksites.
Credit Check Up: Learn how to get and interpret your credit report, correct wrong information and how to protect your identity
Don’t Get Crushed By Debt-Take Charge: Learn strategies to reduce debt, reduce the cost of borrowing, increase savings, work with creditors, and develop a debt reduction plan.
Managing Money in Tough Times: Discover strategies to manage money, reduce stress, and find dollars you didn’t know you had.
Take the Road to Financial Security in Later Life: This workshop will help you increase your knowledge regarding planning for later life, assess your readiness, and create a plan of action to meet you needs and goals.

Workshop Series:

Making Money Work For You: This five-part workshop series is designed for people concerned about their money, just starting out or struggling to make it paycheck to paycheck and looking to manage debt and begin savings. The workshop series covers goal setting, credit, insurance, stretching resources, spending choices and making a spending and savings plan. Cost of participants workbook is $12/person.
Taking Charge of Your Finances :-A four-part workshop series designed for people wanting to achieve financial goals (retirement, college education, etc) by gaining financial management skills that reduce debt and increase savings. The workshop series covers reducing debt, increasing savings, communicating about finances within your household, understanding your insurance coverage and setting up and following a spend/savings plan. Cost of participants workbook is $20/person.

Learn at Home-Self Study Options:

Getting A Grip On Your Money : GRIP is a seven-part newsletter series mailed to your house on a monthly basis. Newsletter topics cover setting goals, implementing a financial record keeping system, understanding credit and insurance, and developing and following a spending/savings plan. Subscription cost is $8.95.
Investing for Your Future: This eleven-unit Learn At Home course was developed by the Cooperative Extension System for beginning investors with small dollar amounts to invest at any one time. It assumes that participants are investing for the first time and/or selecting investment products that they have not purchased previously. Cost: $14.00

For more information on our available Programs and Workshops or to sign up, please call Belknap County Extension or Sue Cagle at 527-5475.

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