Adult Education & Literacy Resource Collection

This brief explains what financial literacy skills are and why they are important.

This guide presents research-based design principles for developing financial literacy instructional materials.

CashCourse is an interactive website devoted to helping students build money management skills, survive in a touch economy, and prepare for success. 

The ESOL Tutor Resource Pack includes resources for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) tutors to use with learners who are in prison or who have had recent experience with the criminal justice system. 

This online evaluation toolkit is designed to help financial educators understand evaluation concepts and efficiently apply them to document the impact their educational programs have on students.

A collection of in-depth personal finance, courses, articles, calculators, and tips for money managment.

This resource offers guidelines to help teachers choose a financial literacy curriculum for their classroom.

Money Smart for Older Adults is an instructor-led training developed to teach older adults and caregivers of older adults about elder financial exploitation and why they may be at risk.

This article focuses on providing practitioners with both information and tools on using cash flow to help participants manage their financial resources.

This webinar describes savings options available to individuals with disabilities that do not jeapordize public benefits.

Loot, Inc. is a resource for teaching financial literacy and a virtual community of practice for teachers. 

Your Money, Your Goals is a set of financial empowerment materials to help people meet their financial goals by increasing their knowledge, skills, and resources.

These learning plans, designed for teachers and tutors, facilitate the teaching of financial literacy to adult ESL learners.

This brief highlights the experiences of five organizations that participated in a six-month Learning Cluster as they worked to integrate services that strengthen the financial capability of their clients. through strategies developed to overcome early challenges to integrating financial services into their traditional programming.

Rutgers New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Station (NJAES) Cooperative Extension's major health finance initiative is Small Steps to Health and Wealth™ (SSHW). This program is designed to motivate consumers to implement behavior change strategies that simultaneously improve their health and personal finances. SSHW includes the following resources: book chapters, behavior change strategies, motivational messages, multimedia, posters, research, and journal articles. 

This resource is a step-by-step guide on what to do if your identity is stolen.

The resource is a financial literacy curriculum that contextualizes basic literacy skills necessary for GED attainment with personal finance skills.

The National Foundation for Financial Education (NEFE) provides Financial Workshop Kits on their website: http://www.financialworkshopkits.org/. The workshop kits, which include tools and resources, are intended to help instructors effectively teach money management skills. 

This booklet is aimed to help young people learn how to take control of their money.

The Office of Federal Student Aid at the U.S. Department of Education provides publications, fact sheets, online tools, and other resources to help students prepare for college or career school. Resources are grouped by the following topics: information on college preparation and the Federal Student Aid Programs; FAFSA; loan information and consumer protection.

Complete Parent Guides that contain activities parents and children can do together to enhance learning personal financial principles and skills.  K-5 and 6-12 guides are available in both English and Spanish.

This guide for college students includes multiple activities appropriate for the adult education population, including activities on the dangers of payday loans and rent-to-own stores, goal-setting, budgeting, and financial aid information.

This report examines the extent to which individuals with limited English proficiency are impeded in their financial literacy
and conduct of financial affairs as determined through a literature review and a series of focus groups with consumers and staff at community and financial organizations.

This is a financial planning guide for beginners that walks the individual through each step of their financial recovery/well being.

The FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) has developed Money Smart to help adults outside the financial mainstream enhance their money skills and create positive banking relationships.