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Horizon Credit Union is committed to preparing our youth for a life time of success through real world financial education. We offer a full range of free, engaging educational programs that are designed to teach personal financial literacy to all grade levels.

If you are a school teacher, youth director, or troop leader and are interested in promoting financial education, contact our relationship management officer at jallison@hzcu.org or 509-755-3068. Below you will find descriptions for some of the educational opportunities we offer! If you don't see the topic you are looking for, just ask us. We can customize a presentation to meet your specific need.

Financial Fieldtrips
Interested in learning about what check cashing means, or what a certificate of deposit is? How about how to find the rates on a credit card and how to compare them? Horizon's financial field trips take students to one of our 16 branch locations to learn first hand about basic financial information. Some topics covered include: saving and investing, checking account management, certificates of deposits and the loan application process.

Classroom presentations
Horizon offers an array of class room presentations for all age groups. Some of our more popular presentation topics include:

Budgeting Basics
Identity Theft Prevention
Credit Reports, Scores, and Interest Rates
Investing: Facts and Fallacies
Understanding the Financial Crisis: Origin and Impact
The Shoe Box Story

Classroom Curriculum

		Spend, Save, Share - Grades K-5 In this presentation, elementary school students learn the valuable principles of balancing spending, saving, and sharing money. Each student receives a MoonJar designed with three compartments to help them implement these important lessons at home.

		Junior Achievement - Grades K-12 Horizon is proud to be a large supporter of the Junior Achievement organization. Junior Achievement has a variety of different programs designed for every grade level, all of which promote work-readiness, entrepreneurship and financial literacy.

		Biz Kid$ - Grades 5-8 Bizkid$ is an interactive educational television show that promotes financial education and entrepreneurship to a young audience. The video program is accompanied by curriculum which promotes the many topics of the Bizkid$ program. This program is perfect for classrooms and youth organizations.

		High School Financial Planning Program - Grades 9-12 NEFE's high school financial planning program is a complete financial curriculum designed to be taught using the learning process: inquire, gather, process and apply. It has seven units, which build upon each other and can be taught as a complete curriculum or as stand alone topics. It is award winning and free.

CODE I Awards
Horizon believes in the following core values: compassion, ownership, diligence, enthusiasm, and integrity. Combined, they form an acronym that we live by-CODE I. At the end of each school year we recognize outstanding students who have demonstrated these values with a CODE I Award. Awards are handed out at a recognition assembly, school board meeting, or year-end ceremony.

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