To all parents, grandparents, and/or guardians of teenage girls:

WISE®, Women Investing in Security and Education invites you to encourage your High School Sophomore, Junior, or Senior to attend the annual WISE Choices Teen Conference for teenage girls.

Do you recall when you graduated from high school whether you were financially literate and ready to “move out”?  We are encouraging young women to plan early to become financially literate. 

This program, designed especially for young women, focuses on financial topics such as bills; budgets and impulse buying; credit; cost of college; apartment-living; financial priorities; cars; phones; etc.

Attendees of previous Conferences have indicated that the conference meets a need.  That need is to discuss their personal experiences with money and to ask specific questions in an open forum. The WISE Choices committee is planning a special WISE Choices Focus Group with previous attendees.  The results will guide us in expanding the October program to include additional financial topics and  to present two new financial workshops “What are my Choices?” and “Pin the Bill on the Budget.” The conference also includes real life experiences of how other women have approached their financial situations.
 

As one of the teen attendees wrote recently, “I really liked learning what “moving out” is really about and how to budget my money.”  Another wrote “I thought it was incredible to see what my parents go through monthly.” 

 Please encourage your daughter, niece, cousin, friend to attend to start down the road to financial independence.

 Visit www.Wise-investors.org.

To a prosperous future,

 Helen Olson