Thank you for partnering with us to further our mission of delivering financial education that empowers teens to make sound financial decisions. Your knowledge and time is greatly appreciated.
This toolkit is designed to provide the information you need to make your volunteer experience a success. Below you will find many resources to prepare you for your classroom presentations for Money Sense and Money Path.
Money Sense Resources
• Online Training
Online training for Money Sense takes a little over an hour to complete and is accessible 24/7. Use it as a complete Money Sense training program or to supplement an in-person training experience.
Online training is available on the SecureFutures website in the Volunteer Resource Library (in the upper right corner). In the Resource Library, above the green boxes, click the Online Training link and then click on Take This Course.
To login, use the preferred email address and password you designed when you completed your volunteer application.
In-person volunteer training events and live webinars provide an opportunity for you to directly ask questions, see demonstrations of how lessons and activities should be diallylated, and network with other volunteers.
You will be notified when in-person opportunities are scheduled.
• Pre-Lesson Preparation
Use these resources to prepare for your lesson. Live trainings will also be scheduled throughout the year.
Watch this video to get an overview of the Money Path app.
• Create Your Account
Create and explore your own personalized Money Path Account. Build and save a couple of sample paths to familiarize yourself. Money Path is a mobile responsive website (not a downloadable app!) meaning it can be used with a computer or tablet with most browsers
To create an account, head to MoneyPathApp.org Click Have a class code? and enter: 567-9824
Questions? Reach out to patrick@securefutures.org.
• Review the Lesson Plan
The lesson is based on using a guided facilitation video and lesson plan in tandem! Use both of the tools below to prepare for your lesson as well as use in the classroom.
Volunteer Guide. Review this guide as it’ll walk you through the whole 60-90 minute lesson
Guided Facilitation Video This video walks through the technical parts of the app, you start and stop throughout the lesson and use the volunteer guide (linked above) to help spark discussion.
Money Coach volunteers mentor, engage, and encourage students in small groups and one-on-one as they develop action plans to achieve actions plans to achieve needs and goals.
If you are selected as a coach, in-person and virtual training is offered twice a year in September and January. You will be notified when recruitment for coaches opens.
• Program Materials
Please check out our Money Coach Materials for updated materials for each semester of Money Coach.
Resource Library
Our Resource Library is available 24/7 and is full of helpful videos, trainings, tips, and materials to help you become the most effective volunteer possible.
The following are good resources to start with; however, the library contains many additional information on all of our programming.
Our Program Guide provides a description of each of our three programs: MoneySense, Money Path, and Money Coach. The guide is primarily used for outreach to educators, but it also provides a great overview of our programming options.
• Volunteer Manual and Decision Tool
The SecureFutures Volunteer Manual provides background on our organization, volunteer information, and guidelines.
Our Volunteer Decision Tool is a visual guide to help you select the program that best fits your interest. This can help guide you on which of our three programs may be right for you at this time.
Our volunteer flier also is a great tool to give you an overview of each of our programs and how they differ.