Do you want to improve your personal finances or help others improve theirs? This training will provide you with tools to create a personal budget and identify ways to improve your financial health.  The training also provides information about health behavior theory as it relates to improving financial health and background information about financial health and stress.  We also present ideas for incorporating budgeting trainings into public health programs.

Learning Objectives

1.  Describe the negative effects of financial stress.

2.  Apply health behavior theory to personal financial health.

3.  Create a personal budget and identify ways to improve personal financial health.

4.  List public health programs that may incorporate personal budgeting concepts as part of health promotion.

Continuing Education:  0.5 Category 1 Credits for CHES, 0.5 Continuing Competency Credits

Duration: ~30 min

Created/Updated: March 2020

Author:  Allison Root, MS, RD