WEBINAR

The Importance of Being Banked

Thursday, December 10, 2015

The Florida Literacy Coalition is excited to announce a financial education webinar presented by Dr. Michael Gutter from the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences, Extension Services. This webinar aims to expose teachers and tutors to new material for their financial literacy classes.
This webinar will cover:

• Barriers to opening and maintaining a bank account and how to overcome those barriers
• The decision making processes of learners without a bank account
• How to teach your students about second chance banking

Michael Gutter, Ph.D.
Associate Dean for Extension and State Program Leader for 4-H Youth Programs,
Families and Communities
 
Dr. Michael Gutter is the Associate Dean for Extension - State Program Leader for 4-H Youth Development, Families and Communities for the Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences at the University of Florida. His BS is in Family Financial Management and his PhD is in Family Resource Management from The Ohio State University with a specialization in Finance. Dr. Gutter’s research focuses on examining how socioeconomic status, financial education, personal psychology, and financial socialization are related to financial behaviors.

His outreach focuses on improving financial behaviors by increasing knowledge, skills, and access to services. Gutter’s outreach projects include Managing in Tough Times, Florida Saves, Get Checking, Military Family Learning Network, and the Florida Master Money Mentor program. His projects focus on enabling access to resources and services as well as improving people’s knowledge and understanding about family resource management. These projects have had funding from the Consumer Federation of America and Bank of America. He regularly tweets on personal finance topics
under @mikegutter on Twitter.

Webinar

The Importance of Being Banked
Date: Thursday, December 10, 2015
Time: 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.

Registration for this webinar is open to all Florida adult education/literacy tutors, teachers and administrators. Pre-registration required. Limited space available.

This webinar is brought to you by the Florida Adult and Family Literacy Resource Center, a program of the Florida Literacy Coalition. It is made possible through the generous support of the Wells Fargo.