Twinspire: Financial Foundations for Empowering Futures
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3 milestones (3 hours, 5 minutes)
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Overview
Welcome to the Twinspire: Financial Foundations for Empowering Futures learning pathway. Every year, roughly 30,000 adolescents in the United States age out of the foster care system with no permanent family or safety net. The absence of a support system when aging out of the foster care system increases the likelihood of experiencing homelessness, incarceration, and/or unstable employment. This learning pathway aims to strengthen your own financial knowledge while preparing you to facilitate discussions with youth in the pursuit of financial empowerment.
Visit Twinspire’s website to find additional financial empowerment resources and specialized trainings on topics like social-emotional learning (SEL), career readiness, and social justice.
Learning objectives
- Demonstrate foundational financial literacy by explaining key concepts in budgeting, credit, savings, and investing
- Develop practical money management skills by creating a personal budget, identifying savings strategies, and analyzing credit use
- Apply financial concepts to real-life scenarios relevant to transition-age youth (TAY), including planning for expenses, avoiding debt traps, and preparing for future goals
- Facilitate engaging workshops for foster youth in short-term residential therapeutic program (STRTP) settings by adapting course content into interactive discussions, activities, and relatable examples
- Model financial empowerment and decision-making that encourages youth to build confidence and resilience in managing their personal finances
- Evaluate youth learning outcomes through reflective discussion, observation, and simple assessment tools that measure their understanding of the course content
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Added on 6/23/2026 ·
Last updated on 6/23/2026