Your Money, Your Goals
These CFPB toolkits help social service organizations, legal aid providers, and similar groups assist their clients in addressing financial challenges like budgeting, debt, and credit.
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Measuring financial well-being: A guide to using the CFPB Financial Well-Being Scale
Following a rigorous research effort to develop a consumer-driven definition of financial well-being, the CFPB developed and tested a set of questions–a “scale”–to measure financial well-being. The scale is designed to allow practitioners and researchers to accurately and consistently quantify, and therefore observe, something that is not directly observable–the extent to which someone’s financial situation and the financial capability that they have developed provide them with security and freedom of choice.
Teacher Online Resource Center
The Teacher Online Resource Center offers teachers resources from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)and Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) to help teach children from pre-K through age 20 about money or other financial topics. Also available on the site are videos that illustrate practical ways teachers can integrate core financial education lessons into the classroom. Access to curriculum, videos, and more can be found at www.fdic.gov/teachers.
Money Smart for Young People Grades K-12
Money Smart for Young People has lessons that provide a developmentally appropriate program for young students to build an understanding of key financial concepts. This standards-aligned curriculum can be incorporated into subjects such as English language arts, mathematics and social studies.
In addition to the educator materials, the curriculum includes a Parent/Caregiver Guide that corresponds to the classroom materials.
Planning for Retirement
Planning for Retirement is a new interactive tool of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to help you make an informed decision about when to claim your Social Security benefits. The tool gives you a rough estimate of your monthly benefit and shows how your monthly benefit changes depending on the age at which you claim.
World of Cents
“World of Cents” provides a fun and engaging opportunity for children to learn the concepts of earning, saving and spending money while building their very own magical world full of whimsical playhouses. The gameplay experience touches on the important building blocks for making smart financial decisions, such as math skills, good savings habits and financial literacy. “World of Cents” utilizes coin value recognition to demonstrate how to save and manage money. Users even have the option of viewing their world in 4D.
The game is available in the App Store and Google Play.
Hit the Road
The game provides a fun and interactive platform for teaching young people about the importance of saving and spending wisely. “Hit the Road” takes students on a virtual road trip across the country, and they must learn how to save and spend their money wisely to complete challenges along the way. The “Hit the Road” learning experience includes topics such as the value of saving and creating a budget, spending responsibly and debt management.
A Financial Empowerment Toolkit for Youth and Young Adults in Foster Care
This Toolkit is designed to provide caseworkers, independent living skills providers, congregate care providers, foster parents, and other supportive adults with strategies and resources to critically evaluate and improve their current approaches to financial capability. It is designed for those working with youth under the age of 18 and young adults over the age of 18 who are preparing to transition out of the foster care system.
Help Your Children Grow Their Money Skills
Kids learn important money lessons from watching you earn, spend, save, and borrow. The CFPB and the FDIC are working together to help better prepare America’s young people to make financial decisions to achieve their own goals, throughout the stages of their lives. Start with the links below to explore age-appropriate information and activities for your kids.