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Member Program Profiles:
ASPECT, Your Money Matters
Organizational Information:
The Association of Service Providers for Employability and Career Training (ASPECT) is an association of community-based trainers that represents and promotes the interests and activities of members to strengthen their capacity to provide services to people with barriers to employment.
Program Description:
Your Money Matters is an online learning program designed to empower clients of all ages with practical money management skills. Through this fun, interactive online learning tool, participants will learn all the basics of managing money, from opening a bank account and reading their pay slip, to developing a budget and saving their money. This program includes five training modules featuring animated sequences that bring financial issues to life such as coping with credit and debt problems.
The program works very well as a supplement or stand alone resource. An online facilitators' guide provides learning objectives and a program overview. A glossary of terms and other resource references are components of each online module.
Target Participants
Your Money Matters is an accessible program for a wide variety of audiences of all ages. The language level is at approximately grade 8 or 9 level of difficulty. The flexibility and accessibility of the design requires little facilitation and engages clients.
Your Money Matters is also an ideal tool for working with newcomers to Canada to orient them to Canadian financial literacy information. A CLB assessment determined that clients who have achieved CLB Level 6 can use the Your Money Matters with minimal intervention and recommended that ESL instructors incorporate this tool into teaching curriculum for levels 3, 4, and 5 with greater facilitation.
Program Contact Information:
Barbara West
Phone: 250.382.9675 ext. 230
Email: bwest@aspect.ca
Website: www.aspect.bc.ca
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