Kids Saves Workshops at Goodwill of Central Arizona's e-cademie High School

Arizona Kids Saves instructor, Judy Aguilar-Woertz, helps students to complete the "apartment activity".  The excerise provides a get realistic learning experience on finding the best way to budget for household expenses.

This series of Kids Saves workshop was the first to be held in a regular classroom setting during school hours.  Math students from e-cademie High School's summer program participated in the workshops. 

Kids Saves students have to opportunity to purchase prizes from the class store with money earned by participating in class. 

Kids Saves Train the Trainer Event

Paradise Valley Community College early education major, Sandra Matadamas engages volunteers in an icebreaker.  The excercise is useful as an introduction technique in Kids Saves classes.

Volunteers interested in teaching ages 6-9 create their own spending diaries.

Volunteers interested in teaching ages 10-12 and teens practice the bean game activity.  The game teaches youth the concept of budgeting and financial decision making. 

During the training event, volunteers were asked to draw from personal experiences in finance when teaching children financial education.

Arizona Saves Train the Trainer Event

 On February 28 2008, Arizona Saves presented the first training event of the year. Over 25 volunteers were trained on how to teach workshop participants about credit, homeownership, budgeting and banking basics. 

Volunteers were encouraged to share their own experiences with money management

Program Manager, Lauren Brandt, leads a section on savings goals

Assistant Director, Jennifer Quillin, discusses how to teach better budgeting skills to workshop clients