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Meeting Day-to-Day Financial Needs

Meeting day-to-day needs is a challenge for many. Over the past few months, money (how we earn it, spend it, and plan to accumulate it for future use) has been in the news and on our minds more than ever before. See Managing Your Money in Tough Times.

Regardless of your income, managing money takes skills that are learned. Knowing where your money goes, being able to distinguish between needs and wants, and developing a spending-savings plan are skills that can help you confidently meet day-to-day money management challenges.

Activities

  • Money Smart Week
    This series of free classes and activities is designed to help consumers better manage their personal finances. Money Smart Week Indiana is held in October each year.

Programs

CFS Extension educators in your community might offer one or more of these programs — contact your county Extension office for details.

  • Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program
    Targeted to limited-resource households with pregnant women and pre-teen children. Through hands-on learning, participants learn the skills and motivation needed to choose and prepare healthy and safe meals for their families. It is delivered in 14 Indiana counties.
  • Family Nutrition Program
    Available to food stamp recipients in 53 Indiana counties. Through programs in homes and community settings, participants develop the knowledge and skills in nutrition, meal planning, food purchasing, and food preparation and safety.
  • Making Your Money Work
    Program increases the financial stability of low-literacy, low-income participants. A facilitator presents the seven-week program in a classroom-type setting. A Making Your Money Work video kit is available that offers a home-study alternative.
  • Small Steps to Health and Wealth
    Explore the similarities between health and personal finances by learning about small steps that everyone can take to improve both aspects of their lives.
  • Where Does Your Money Go?
    This curriculum on a CD is a presentation for facilitators who want to help their clients improve their money management practices and achieve financial stability. The CD contains a 27-slide PowerPoint show (for a one-time presentation) and a 49-slide PowerPoint show (for a two-session presentation). The CD also contains PDF files of eight worksheets or handouts for participants, detailed instructions about how to present the program and how to use the handouts, plus evaluations and marketing suggestions. Download order form.

Publications

Managing Your Credit

When Your Income Drops

Talking to Your Family

Other

Multimedia

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