Family Financial Academy
Family Financial Academy is a comprehensive money management-training program for the financially troubled to the financially secured. The academy is a tool that helps support its community members by empowering them to become financial healthy and accountable for their financial decisions.
The Academy offers a variety of services:
Workshops & Seminars
One-on-One Consultation
- Budgeting
- Credit Review
- Debt Analysis
Onsite Workshops for Group/Churches/ Organizations
Trainings and materials can be brought to your location for groups of 10 or more people.
Comprehensive Financial Management Training© (CFMT)
Family Financial Academy Fall 2005 "Comprehensive Financial Management
Training" will begin February 2006. Contact Alycia Welch for enrollment information.
Financial Freedom BootCamp© (BootCamp)
Family Financial Academy "Boot Camp-Training to Eliminate the Cycle of Debt
and the Bondage of Poverty" will begin in February 2006. Contact Alycia Welch for enrollment information.
| Comprehensive Financial Management Training |
| Course |
Objective |
| Beginning the Journey |
- Explores the importance of planning and developing specific, measurable and time-oriented goals based on family values.
- Helps participants begin to develop a personal short-term savings goal and set priorities.
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| Cash Attitudes |
- Identifies consumerism vs. wealth building attitudes and how our cash attitudes influence our financial habits.
- Explores finance and savings behaviors of American families.
- Introduces participants to basic money management tools
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| Closing Financial Leaks |
- Facilitates understanding between basic and discretionary expenses.
- Encourages participants to identify financial leaks in their household that would prevent them from living within their means.
- Creates awareness of current financial status.
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| Budgeting Applications |
- Participants are taught step-by-step how to prepare a spending plan that will work, analyze their total monthly expenses and determine the amount of money available to pay off debt.
- Offers participants various cost savings tips to reduce expenditures, live inexpensively and maintain their budgets.
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| Credit I |
- Explains the use and misuse of credit, how to check and clean participant credit reports.
- Helps participants understanding the benefits of repairing credit and improving credit scoring.
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| Credit II |
- Focuses on consumer rights, communication and negotiating with creditors and collection agencies and developing a plan to restore financial integrity.
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| Debt Elimination |
- Equips participants with techniques to get out of debt and stay out of debt.
- Identifies the effects of compound interest relating to debt and the benefits of compound interest in investment.
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| Investment |
- Explores different methods of investment, financial advisors and fund managers.
- Helps participants understand the risk and rate of return on different types of investments.
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| Insurance |
- Provides and overview of life, disability, auto and homeowners insurance.
- Emphasizes the importance of insuring your assets and shows participants how to purchase insurance appropriate for their needs.
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| Financial Freedom BootCamp© |
| Course |
Objective |
| Enlisting |
- Identifies consumerism vs. wealth building attitudes and how our cash attitudes influence our financial habits.
- Explores the importance of planning and developing specific, measurable and time-oriented goals based on individual values.
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| Basic Training |
- Explores savings and finance behaviors of American families.
- Focuses on narrowing participants' scope to identify personal financial leaks in their household that would prevent them from living within their means.
- Participants are taught step-by-step how to prepare a spending plan that will work.
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| Site Adjustment |
- Explains the use and misuse of credit, how to check and clean participant credit reports.
- Helps participants understanding the benefits of repairing credit and improving credit scoring.
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| Hand-to-Hand Combat |
- Focuses on consumer rights, communication and negotiating with creditors and collection agencies and developing a plan to restore financial integrity.
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| Tactical Maneuvers |
- Equips participants with techniques to get out of debt and stay out of debt.
- Identifies the effects of compound interest relating to debt and the benefits of compound interest in investment.
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| War Games |
- Uses activities to pull all the information learned together preparing participants to apply it to their personal lives.
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