Financial Fitness

Financial Fitness
This is the image for the news article titled Financial Fitness

Financial Fitness



The FCCLA Financial Fitness national peer education program involves youth teaching one another how to make, save, and spend money wisely. Through FCCLA’s Financial Fitness program, youth plan and carry out projects that help them and their peers learn to become wise financial managers and smart consumers.

 

red horizontal bar

The goal of Financial Fitness is to inform and inspire teens to sharpen their skills in money management, consumerism, and financial planning. Although the income of your typical teen is limited, they tend to spend a tremendous amount of money. This program will help students learn to manage their money wisely. Teens who learn to handle their finances will become adults who know how to manage their money in order to build better lives for themselves and their families and to strengthen the economy. Financial Fitness Goals:
  • Inform and inspire teens to sharpen their skills in money management, consumerism, and financial planning.

  • Create a national network of young people who use teen-to-teen communications to share information.

  • Provide teenagers with an opportunity to develop communication and leadership skills by being peer educators.

Financial Fitness Units:

Each youth-created Financial Fitness project relates to one of the following five units:

  • Banking Basics - Conquer bank accounts, credit, and investments
  • Cash Control - Track and plan personal spending
  • Making Money - Sharpen on-the-job financial fitness
  • Consumer Clout - Become a savvy spender
  • Financing Your Future - Apply financial skills to real life.