New Online Tool: Building Blocks to Financial Success

Posted by on November 26, 2004

?Building Blocks to Financial Success? is a new, online financial empowerment training program where savers learn budgeting, debt management, banking, loan and grant resources, and basic financial planning via the Internet. It is cited as an approved curriculum in the American Express Financial Education Clearinghouse on the National Endowment for Financial Education website. Provider agencies anywhere in the country can now offer this program to their clients as an alternative or a supplement to their classroom based financial literacy program. This financial literacy course can benefit all individuals interested in improving their personal financial management skills whether they are in an IDA/FSA program, EITC program, transition to work program, housing program, or many others.

Building Blocks also has two unique features that create a meaningful, interactive environment for users and their provider agencies. Agency counselors have online access to their users? course work to review their exercises and provide them with ongoing feedback. In addition, the Community Board feature provides a mechanism for users to ?chat? with other users and their counselors whenever they want to communicate with each other. (Click on ?community? on the welcome page.)

Building Blocks to Financial Success, which was developed by Women?s Opportunity Resource Center (WORC), can be offered to an agency?s financial literacy clients for a nominal agency fee. There are over 300 users from 10 Partner agencies nationwide that are utilizing this online program during 2004.

You can visit http://www.WORCFinancialEd.com and enter username: ?building? and password: ?blocks? to access the demonstration program. To view the counselor feature visit: http://www.WORCFinancialEd.com/CounsleorNotes and enter username: ?counselor? and password: ?demo?. You can view the Community Board by clicking on ?Visit Community? on the welcome page of the user or counselor site.

Please contact Laurie Rosard at [email protected] for more information.