Are you planning a Career Day at your school? EdFed can attend and provide information to your students about various Credit Union career opportunities to help prepare your students for their futures.

EdFed's Financial Education team offers free educational seminars and workshops. Our workshops are designed to teach students the importance of responsible, credit management, budgeting and savings. Workshops include Money Management, Building and Maintaining Good Credit, Identity Theft, & Fraud Prevention, Budgeting and Financial Wellness.

The EdFed Reality Fair is a budgeting simulation for high-school students. Each participant receives an identity containing an occupation, salary, student loan and credit card debt, and medical insurance costs. Participants may have a spouse or life partner, some may be single, and some may have child expenses. Students visit merchants and create a budget.

Students will learn how to:

• Prepare a budget with realistic situations
• Identify the consequences of poor decisions
• Learn to record and track their transactions
• Understand that budgeting is necessary for good money management

Since 2007, EdFed has been a proud sponsor and supporter of the Summer Youth Internship Program and the City of Miami's Summer Jobs Connect Internship Program. These internships offer students the opportunity to work at one of EdFed's branches. Internship program information is posted early in the year and students are selected around May of the same year.

Both programs last five weeks, but the experience provides students with a skill set that they will use throughout their lives. Interns learn business etiquette, develop a healthy work ethic and learn that punctuality is integral to succeeding. Though it is not always easy, interns grow through this experience and become responsible individuals who know how to conduct themselves in a professional environment.