HO209: Delivering Effective Financial Education for Today's Consumer - Training May 2,3, and 4
Join us for an important training to provide financial education for clients. The training takes place on May 2-4, 2017. This three-day training is happening concurrently with the Maryland Community Action Partnership Annual Conference.
This three-day training is happening concurrently with the Maryland Community Action Partnership Annual Conference.
This is the third of a series for certification from NeighborWorks for financial education. However, if you are interested in just this course, you do not have to take the prior courses in order to take this course.
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About MCAP
The Maryland Community Action Partnership (MCAP) is a nonprofit, state/region association that advocates on behalf of low–income families in Maryland, the District of Columbia, and the state of Delaware, to ensure their voices are heard at the local, state and national levels. Also, MCAP supports the mission and activities of Community Action Agencies and other entities with similar missions throughout the three regions. Community Action Agencies provide direct human services working to lead families to self–sufficiency and independence of public programs. There are 17 Community Action Agencies in the state of Maryland, one agency in Delaware, and one agency in the District of Columbia.
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The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Maryland 2016
Maryland Community Action Partnership is publishing The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Maryland 2016 in an effort to ensure the best data and analyses are available to enable Maryland’s families and
individuals to make progress toward real economic security. The result is a comprehensive, credible, and user-friendly tool. This report presents and analyzes The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Maryland 2016.
This measure calculates how much income a family must earn to meet basic needs, with the amount
varying by family composition and where they live. The Standard presented here is a tool that can be used
in a variety of ways—by clients of workforce and training programs seeking paths to self-sufficiency, by
program managers to evaluate program effectiveness, and by policymakers and legislators seeking to
create programs and pathways that lead to self-sufficiency for working families.
As with all Self-Sufficiency Standard reports,
The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Maryland 2016
was
authored by Dr. Diana M. Pearce and produced by the Center for Women’s Welfare at the University of
Washington. This report, plus tables providing county-specific information for 472 family types, is available
online.
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