Financial Literacy Program

ISED Solutions’ financial literacy program works towards achieving three main goals;

1. To provide organizations with the most up-to-date and worthwhile financial literacy curricula.
2. To build the capacity of staff and volunteers across the United States to become capable and skilled financial literacy trainers.
3. To assist more than 6,000 refugees and immigrants improve their understanding of and ability to use the U.S. financial system.

ISED Solutions uses multiple approaches to provide ongoing training and support for the trainers including; agency site visits, training workshops, consultation with agency leadership, and managed communication via LISTSERVS, phone, and e-mail.

PICTURE THIS is now available

A financial curriculum for refugees and immigrants who are unfamiliar with the U.S. Financial System.

Now available in Spanish and English

The curriculum emphasizes experiential learning through visual aids, pictorial stories, life skills, games and concrete examples. It includes practical tools that immigrants and refugees can use to successfully manage their money in the U.S. and to improve their financial self-sufficiency through budgeting, banking, savings and using credit wisely.

The course is organized into four classes:

• U.S. Money - focuses on money and how we spend it. Students learn how to use a calculator, how to read and write numbers, and how to recognize the prices of common household items.
• Plan to Budget - provides tools to develop a household budget and a short-term budget so individuals can better manage their money and expenses.
• Bank On it! - teaches students about paychecks, U.S. financial institutions and different banking services. Students learn how to read their paychecks, cash their paychecks and open a bank account.
• Paying the Bills - offers hands-on activities to help individuals pay their bills and manage their credit and debt. Trainees learn how to write checks, deposit checks, and balance their check registers.

Picture This includes a curriculum (training guide, learning tools, training tools) Individual student workbooks are also available for purchase.

• The Training Guide details how to prepare and implement each lesson.
• The Learning Tools include a number of handouts and worksheets to be completed by the students either in or outside the classroom.
• The Training Tools are props such as posters, accessories for games, instructional notes and calculations.

Hire Us To Train Your Trainers!

ISED Solutions is pleased to announce that interested organizations may now SIGN UP for the Financial Literacy Trainer Workshop. ISED Solutions’ financial literacy experts will come to your organization to deliver this workshop. Your participants will learn how to better deliver this financial literacy program to refugees and immigrants with limited literacy within the communities you serve. Several agencies may sign up together for this workshop or one agency can hold the workshop by itself. Up to five participants per organization/agency may participate. Please call (202) 223-3288 or email Joanna.vanasselt@isedsolutions.org for more information.

Picture This is now available for purchase online!

There are different ways to purchase Picture This!

The financial literacy curriculum, the flash drive, and the student handbooks are all available to be purchased individually. Or, SIGN UP for the Trainers Workshop which includes a Workshop for up to five participants per organization and a Training Kit for each participant.

Item	Price	Purchase Now
Financial Curriculum (English)	$185.00
Financial Curriculum (Spanish)	$185.00
Student Handbook (English)	$25.00
Student Handbook (Spanish)	$25.00
Trainers Workshop per agency (Includes a workshop for up to five participants* from each organization and a Training Kit for each participant)	$4800

*If your organization does not have up to 5 participants to take part in this workshop please contact ISED Solutions for more options.