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FINANCIAL EDUCATION FOR TEENS & YOUNG ADULTS
Help your teen make sense of money.
“Our neighbor offered me a weekend dog-walking job. I said yes, but we haven’t talked about pay.”
“What if I forget to pay my credit card bill?”
“I was offered paid work making memes for a social media group. But I have to pay $20 to join. Is that okay?”
Maybe you’ve heard questions like these at home. Sometimes teens ask before making a decision. Other times, they come to us when things haven’t gone the way they expected.
You want your child to be prepared. But finding time to talk about money — and knowing where to start — isn’t always easy.
Fincisely gives teens a practical foundation in personal finance through interactive learning. They build skills to handle everyday money decisions and protect their money and personal information.
Money management is a life skill.
Financial literacy is recognized worldwide as an essential life skill.
Learning how to manage money helps young people understand costs, plan for what they want, and avoid costly mistakes.
- Personal finance
- How you earn, spend, save, borrow, invest, and protect your money.
- Financial literacy
- Understanding money information well enough to make informed choices.
- Managing your money
- Putting that understanding into practice: making plans, keeping track, and following through.
Why Fincisely?
Money wisdom gained early goes a long way.
Interactive learning.
Built-in quizzes, calculators, and practical activities keep students involved throughout the learning process.
Credible content.
Our curriculum draws on California’s Personal Finance Curriculum Guide and the CFPB’s youth financial education review framework.
Relatable examples.
The course is full of everyday situations featuring teens facing the same questions, choices, and challenges as your child.
Practical skills.
Students learn to manage spending, build savings, understand their paychecks, compare borrowing costs, spot scams, and plan ahead.
Confident decisions.
Students practice weighing their options and recognizing risks, helping them avoid common—and often costly—money mistakes.
Support for parents.
When time is short or a money topic is hard to explain, the course helps. After each completed module, you receive an email with your child’s progress, quiz results, and suggested topics to discuss together.
WHAT WE OFFER
Choose the option that fits your goals.
PARENTS & FAMILIESExplore Online Course
LIVE LEARNINGWorkshops
Explore focused financial-literacy sessions in person or via Zoom, offered on their own or alongside the online course.
FREE MONEY & LIFE RESOURCES
Money questions come up every day.
What does APR mean? How do you read a first pay stub? What should you check before opening a bank account? Explore our free interactive terms library and articles on money choices teens and families face.
Explore our free resourcesOUR CURRICULUM FOUNDATIONPractical teaching.
Practical teaching.
A carefully built curriculum.
Fincisely draws on established financial-education guidance to shape course content and teaching. Official sources support the information students use as they practice real-life money decisions.
01CONTENT & SCOPE
California’s Personal Finance
Curriculum Guide
California Department of Education
The guide informs the financial topics we cover and their connection to the decisions young people face as they become more independent.
Explore the curriculum guidance02TEACHING & REVIEW
Youth Financial Education
Curriculum Review Tool
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
The framework helps us review content, learning activities and assessments, with attention to financial knowledge, skills and decision-making.
Explore the review frameworkOFFICIAL SOURCES
Reliable information behind the lessons.
We use these resources to check facts and review details that can change, including taxes, student aid and consumer protections.
- Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
- Consumer finance and curriculum review
- FDIC & NCUA
- Bank and credit-union deposit insurance
- BLS, U.S. Department of Labor & California DIR
- Careers, wages, benefits and worker rights
- Federal Trade Commission
- Scams, debt help and rental fraud
- Federal Student Aid & California Student Aid Commission
- Education funding
- SEC Investor.gov
- Investing education
- Internal Revenue Service
- Taxes and retirement accounts
- Federal Reserve
- Monetary and fiscal policy
These resources inform our work and its ongoing review. References to public agencies do not imply their approval or endorsement of Fincisely.