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Education seminars.
We offer a number of Credit Education Seminars, either at our office, or at your location. To book a seminar, simply click on the appropriate link, and fill in the brief questionnaire that follows. We thank you for your interest in our services.
Please contact Mark Tsipilevich at 416-228-2540 to book a speaker for your organization or to recommend us to an association or colleague.
Click here to get details on our next Money Management and Budgeting Seminar.
Money 101
Money 101 is an in class seminar provided by Credit Canada to high school students.
- The Meaning of Money
- Terms and the importance of Credit
- Types of credit
- Warning signs of Credit problems
- Credit Bureaus, credit files and credit ratings
- Ten basic rules of Money Management
Money Management and Budgeting
- How Credit Canada can help
- Strategies and the importance of saving for needs, wants and emergencies
- Strategy for establishing and reaching your financial goals
- Money Personality Exercise
- Ten rules of money management and budgeting
- How to create a realistic budget
- Credit bureaus, credit files and credit ratings
- What to compare when shopping for a credit card, proper use of credit and warning signs of financial difficulty
Surviving Tough Times
- How Credit Canada can help
- Ten rules of money management and budgeting
- Strategies and the importance of saving for needs, wants and emergencies
- Strategy for establishing and reaching your financial goals
- How to create a realistic budget
- Credit bureaus, credit files and credit ratings (what happens when I cannnot pay?)
- How to deal with creditors and collectors
- Consumer rights
Surviving a Layoff
Covers topics in Surviving Tough Times plus:
- Employment scam alerts
- Tips to get back to work sooner
- Tips on how to raise money
It Pays To Manage Your Money
It pays To Manage Your Money is a seminar for newcomers, to help them
address their financial needs.
- How Credit Canada can help
- Strategies and the importance of saving for needs, wants and emergencies
- Strategy for establishing and reaching your financial goals
- Ten rules of money management
- How to create a realistic budget
- Credit bureaus, credit files, and credit rating/How to establish a credit rating
- Your rights and responsibility towards your credit card
- What to compare when shopping for a credit card
- Understanding your consumer rights
Establishing a Strategy for Reaching Financial Goals
- How Credit Canada can help
- Strategy for establishing and reaching your financial goals
- Helpful tips on creating and maintaining a successful budget
- Basic rules of money management
- How the credit rating system works and what happens when I'm late>
Kids & Money
This workshop is focused on parents with children ages 2-13. It all starts at home. Home is the main influence on a child's attitude towards money. If parents handle money responsibly, children will eventually learn to follow their lead.
- Ten Basic Steps to Teach Kids Responsibility with Money
- What To Teach Your Children about Money
- My Spending Plan, a very good way for a child to start monitoring his/her spending for the week
- At the end of the workshop, parents will take our Credit Costs Quiz.
Couples & Money
Men and Women deal with money differently. This workshop will teach couples to understand why they react the way they do with money. This is an important step in working towards mutual respect when dealing with issues related to money management. Doing so will allow for common ground and a strong foundation when dealing with financial issues.
- Ten Basic Rules of Money Management
- Attitudes about Money: Exercise thatinterprets couples' Financial Compatibility Score and focuses on an individual's view of money
- Couples Financial Communication Scale interprets couples' Financial Compatibility Score, and focuses on communication between couples
- At the end, the couples will take our Credit Costs Quiz.
Credit Canada, the operating name for Credit Counselling Service of Toronto, is a not-for-profit charitable service that has assisted thousands of people with credit counselling and debt management programs since 1966. Our agency is a Charter Member of the Canadian Association of Credit Counselling Services and affiliated with the National Foundation for Consumer Credit (NFCC).
