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Integrated Services for Young People

Money Mastery

FREE one-day money coaching seminar for youth workers and other professionals who work with young people.

Money Mastery isn’t finance training for young people. It is training that equips young people’s workers to motivate young people to think about their income, wealth and their personal goals. It is a free, high energy, one day money coaching seminar, offered through the National Youth Agency’s Financial Literacy Programme.

More than a thousand young people’s workers have gone through the programme so far. It will continue to run at least until Spring 2011.

A second course, The Benefits Trap, addresses the need to go beyond an entitlement approach to benefits and provide young people’s workers with techniques to open up exploration of aspirations and improved motivation.

Benefits

  • Helps young people’s workers to create new options and choices, helping young people to overcome the negative beliefs, patterns and behaviours that keep them stuck.
  • Raises aspiration in youth workers both of themselves and of the young people they work with.
  • Assists youth work practitioners to meet the ‘achieving economic wellbeing’ Every Child Matters outcome.
  • Bespoke programmes for local authorities on request.

Money Mastery meets the Benefits Trap:

Over the past two years many youth workers attending Money Mastery courses have expressed their frustration at a phenomenon that is often dubbed ‘The Benefits Trap’. For the first time this year we are offering a new course to run alongside Money Mastery which will aim to start addressing these issues – or at least give more options and choices to youth workers who are faced with them. The course will be informed by new research and structured to give practical tools and techniques to practitioners aimed at helping (where appropriate) to move young people from unemployment and into work, training or education.

About Money Mastery

Money Mastery is designed to work in tandem with the FSA’s Young People and Money course (currently being delivered across the UK – see http://www.youngpeopleandmoney.co.uk/). The two courses complement each other and can either be attended as stand-alone workshops or alongside each other to provide a broader solution to the challenges of working with young people around their financial literacy.

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The National Youth Agency is grateful for the support of the Lloyds TSB.