Financial education across the lifespan with Ohio State University Extension
This presentation shares some of the OSU Extension, FCS financial education resources from Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS) to Extension Public Health AmeriCorps (EPHAC)
EPHAC members: please share resources with local partners and please use whatever materials are most useful to you personally. For example, I wrote a blog about the six-lesson Manage Your Money program, titled Why I am Bringing Work Home related to a six-week financial education email program many years ago! The main point is: “The risk …..is that it looks like we’ve got it all together! We don’t have it all together, but as we work on areas where we need to improve, we will not forget to applaud the past choices and decisions where we got it right. Even for individuals and couples who have extensive experience and success with a household budget, it’s always a good idea to do a regular review, especially when there are changes in who is living in the house or with income or expenses.”
Contact Information: Patrice Powers-Barker, OSU Extension, Lucas County Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS), powers-barker.1@osu.edu
PowerPoint from webinar: EPHAC_financial_2025
“To personalize your financial plan, you need your own data. Invest the time now for a better payoff later” Manage Your Money, OSU Extension
Resources (links) shared in the presentation:
- Money as you Grow Bookshelf for Parents and Caregivers https://www.consumerfinance.gov/consumer-tools/money-as-you-grow/bookshelf/
- Real Money. Real World https://realmoneyrealworld.osu.edu/
- Manage Your Money lessons https://extensionpubs.osu.edu/manage-your-money-pdf/
- Counting Your Money Calendar https://extensionpubs.osu.edu/counting-your-money-calendar/
- CFPB Consumer Education https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/the-bureau/
- Eight Easy Exercises for Financial Fitness https://fcs.osu.edu/sites/fcs/files/imce/PDFs/8_Easy_Financial_Fitness.pdf
- AmericaSaves Week https://americasavesweek.org/
- PowerPay https://extension.usu.edu/powerpay/
- Rent Smart, Ohio register for class May 2025 https://fcs.osu.edu/programs/healthy-finances/housing-programs
- Homebuyer education https://fcs.osu.edu/programs/healthy-finances/housing-programs
- OHFA Homebuyer Program https://myohiohome.org/homebuyerprogram.aspx
National and State Partners:
- HUD, US Department of Housing and Urban Development www.hud.gov
- CFPB, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau www.consumerfinance.gov
- OHFA, Ohio Housing Finance Agency ohiohome.org
- Ohio State Treasurer tos.ohio.gov
- Ohio Department of Education and Workforce, Financial Literacy in High School
References:
Arah, O., A., (2009). On the relationship between individual and population health. Med Health and Care Philos. 12:235:244. doi: 10.1007/s11019-008-9173-8.
Bartholomae, S., Kiss, D. E., & Pippidis, M. (2024). Documenting Cooperative Extension’s family resource management impacts: Insights and outcomes from a national effort. Journal of Human Sciences and Extension, 12(2), 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.55533/2325-5226.1434
Housing Counseling through Cooperative Extension (2017). The Bridge: The Office of Housing Counseling Newsletter. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. VOLUME 5, ISSUE 9 MARCH 2017 https://www.hud.gov/sites/documents/OHC_BRIDGE033017.PDF
Loibl, C., Durhan, J., and Moulton, S. (2018). Rich Opportunities from Collaboration with a State Housing Finance Agency. Journal of Extension. v56-7 iw5. https://open.clemson.edu/joe/vol56/iss7/16/
Rupp, M., J., and Powers-Barker, P. (2024). Homebuyer Education: Individualized financial education during a major life purchase at AFCPE Symposium 2024. go.osu.edu/afcpehomebuyer
Vital Conditions for Health and Well-Being. (2025). The Ripple Foundation. https://rippel.org/vital-conditions/