Move Your Money

 
As part of my work with Youth Worker: Collective, I have been working with Mission SF Community Financial Center to secure financial services and classes for youth workers. Mission SF Community Financial Center is a counterpart to the Mission SF Credit Union. Through this work, I am learning more and more about the investment cycle and how financial institutions work.

Huffington Post had the video below on their front page on Tuesday, December 29, 2009. I found its message very similar to that of the credit union: it is time for us to invest in our communities.

Take a view below and learn why community banking is a must for our financial wellness.

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Financial Literacy for Youth Workers

  
Mission SF Community Financial Center (Mission SF) is home to the Youth Credit Union Program (YCUP), a one of its kind opportunity for youth to learn how to manage and save money. Youth operate as tellers, educate other youth about financial literacy, and create marketing campaigns to encourage other youth to save their money and not divest it by cashing checks at check cashing chop shops.

Youth Worker: Collective has been partnering with Mission SF and YCUP to bring these vital financial services to youth workers, the professionals who work with and for youth. It started with a simple Financial Literacy class in February 2009 held in the Green Room of the Department of Children, Youth, and Their Families. This led to creating a six month program to help deepen financial skills and empower workers to interrupt the cycle of poverty by bringing these skills back to their job.

The follow-up to this program is developing a stand-alone three to four hour training that will be delivered through AFATAC Leadership Tracks' Learning Circles and Learning Academy, a unique training opportunity for San Francisco workers in after school programs. This will lead to even more workers empowered and emboldened to make critical changes to their personal habits as well as analyze how wages and stipends are paid to youth. 

To sign up for the upcoming Financial Literacy classes, visit the AFATAC Leadership Tracks homepage.

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