Financial Skills for Families

Since 2012, 228 Warm Springs community members have taken WSCAT’s financial empowerment courses, including 214 who have taken Building Native Communities: Financial Skills for Families. 140 have graduated from these courses. Our courses help participants develop good savings habits, manage money wisely, open a bank account, and gain a better understanding of credit, setting themselves up for financial success.

The Building Native Communities: Financial Skills for Families course, which occurs quarterly, was developed by the First Nations Development Institute and First Nations Oweesta Corporation. Financial Skills for Families is open to all Warm Springs community members, and is required for people participating in our individual development account program. The course is divided into the following six 2-hour long sessions, which usually occur on Thursday nights from 5:30 – 7:30 in the WSCAT Conference Room: