McKee Assn. to offer personal money management workshops

The James A. Mckee Association is planning to embark on a new project to help community members to share their experiences to cope with both current and long term economic pressures by offering public information/education workshops in personal money management. We call these Financial Freedom Now and they are described more fully on our website at www.45387.org/ffn and in brochures and flyers which will soon be available.

Long-term economic factors have been aggravated by a current global economic crisis and people everywhere are being affected by reduced circumstances and growing financial pressure. It seems likely that things will get worse before they get better so the McKee Association members have resolved to try to offer assistance locally by providing one or a series of workshops to help local residents but especially young adults to develop their money management skills through dialogue with each other and with expert leaders.

The first workshop will be offered on consecutive Thursday evenings starting April 9. Sessions will be held in a very comfortable setting at the Antioch University McGregor building at East Enon Road and Dayton Street. There will be five sessions, each lasting from 6:30 to 8:30 and food, other refreshments and all materials will be provided. This workshop will deal with basic money management skills like cash management, credit card management, debt management, real costs, cost-conscious shopping, etc in a general overview with simple but effective tips and rules for guidance. Others to be offered later, will provide greater depth techniques for income maximization, expense control and effective budgeting.

Planning and execution of the project is being done entirely by community volunteer personnel including many from the McKee Association. Funding for the project is being provided by local contributions so there will be no cost to the participants. We have also arranged for the donation of appropriate materials and professional time by experts in various related professional fields to assist with the planning and implementation of the workshops. Altogether we expect a total of 20-25 people will be involved in the planning and delivery of the workshops.

Each workshop will be limited to 20 participants in order to provide the best atmosphere for interactive communication. Depending upon the success of the initial effort we will offer either another basic workshop or one or more advanced ones probably in June or, perhaps later this year. Limited attendance will require registration so interested villagers should register as soon as they can.

More information, including the registration form, is available from the website or by calling Rick Kristensen (767-9900), Kent Bristol (767-7773) or Sam Jackson (767-1112) or by sending an e-mail inquiry to ffn@45387.org.

James A. Mckee Association news release, March 5, 2009