Get Smart About Credit
 As a banker, you know how a positive payment history can help your customers achieve their dreams -- to own a home or send your child to college. While a poor credit report can close doors -- to mortgages, financing your own business, and even to getting a job.
Young people need to know how to use credit wisely. So, to raise awareness among teens and young adults about the importance of credit smarts, the ABA Education Foundation sponsors Get Smart About Credit Day. On this date, bankers like you go to classrooms, connect with youth groups, and visit college campuses to help young people in the community get smart about credit now, so they can make smart financial choices later in life.
You can bring personal experience and much needed expertise to this important life lesson. So, please contact your local high school, community college, university, youth group, and vocational training facility about teaching their students how to budget, use credit cards responsibly and build a positive payment history.
 If you need help with structured lessons and activities, the Get Smart About Credit Resource Kit can help.
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You may also be interested in:
 Get Smart About Credit eLearning Program
Teach credit education 24/7 with this dynamic, interactive online course for young adults. Also available in  !
 The Personal Finance Basics booklet series presents money management concepts for beginners of all ages in easy-to-understand language. All available in  !
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Join bankers across the nation on teaching teens and young adults the responsible use of credit.
See which banks participated in Get Smart About Credit Day - view the Participation Honor Roll.
View the coverage page to see what happened on the 5th annual Get Smart About Credit Day!
"My students will think differently about how they use credit in the future ... Armstrong Bank is helping them be better consumers and that will make a real difference in these young people's lives."
Bev Taylor, Marketing Director, Armstrong Bank, OK | | |
For more information, please contact Erin Scheithe.
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