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Educational Program

Home Educational Program

Our current programs are designed to reach the broad and diverse Hispanic community and are tailored to meet the specific needs of each distinct group we serve in partnership with local service providers.

We currently offer courses, workshops, Key Advice Sessions (KAS), financial education fairs, and webinars.

Through our workshops, we enable our participants to use their available resources to improve their personal finances and provide more opportunities for their families. As they become economically secure, they can focus on attaining their personal goals and aspirations.

The overall objective of the program is to ensure that each participant is able to analyze their own financial situation, establish clear financial goals and gain the necessary knowledge and skills to plan towards their goals. What makes the program unique is the strategic way in which we integrate trust-building, empowering, and community-building elements into the curriculum – created specifically for the Hispanic population. Over time, participants begin to improve their financial security by opening bank accounts, eliminating their credit card debt, improving their credit score, keeping a budget and avoiding high tariffs by unregulated loan officers and check cashing establishments.

Upon completing the courses, many graduates have obtained credit, secured insurance, opened bank accounts, and learned the basic skills to better manage their household finances while communicating more openly about it with their families.

In our workshops you will learn:

  • The importance of good communication within the household
  • What a budget is and how to do one
  • How to make your money go farther
  • How to save money
  • What insurance is available in the United States
  • How to navigate the banking system in the US
  • What is credit and how can you access it
  • What are the most frequent cases of financial abuse and fraud
  • How to avoid being a victim of fraud

Types of Workshops

Qualitas provides financial workshops to the Hispanic community. All the workshops for adults are offered in Spanish. Workshops for young children and teens are offered in both English and Spanish.

Family Workshop

The Family workshop is a 3-hour long session with a capacity of up to 20-25 families that integrates financial information, dynamic games, visual audio content and guest speakers and are designed to be engaging, participatory and community-building.

Single Workshop

2-hour session with a capacity of up to 20-30 people designed around the specific financial needs of a given community.

8 Session Course

Comprehensive course with a capacity of up to 20-30 people that provides in depth discussions of 7 financial topics followed by an review of topics covered in the workshop and a graduation for participation.

POR FAVOR NO BORRES ESTE ELEMENTO NI LO MUEVAS DE ESTA FILA.

Curso de 8 sesiones

Topics

The topics in our workshops are directed towards adults, adolescents and children.

For adults:

  • Qualitas and my personal finances
  • My family finances
  • Savings and insurance
  • Budgeting
  • Banking system
  • Frauds and financial scams
  • Credit and debt reduction
  • My Finances and my business
  • Get Ready: Migratory processes and my money
  • Taxes
  • Remittances
  • Create micro-enterprises
  • Applying for financial aid
  • Applying for loans
  • Opening a bank account
  • Becoming financially secure
  • Retirement
  • Online Banking
  • How to avoid marketing schemes
  • Housing and tenant rights
  • Credit II

For Teenagers and kids:

  • Budgeting for teenagers
  • Understanding money for pre-teens
  • Productive family conversations about money
  • Applying for financial aide

Qualitas is a non-profit organization. Our priority is for participants obtain the maximum benefits from the programs they attend.

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Partnerships

Our workshops are provided in partnership with strategic alliances who serve the Hispanic community, are located in areas with a highly vulnerable, densely populated population and who are respected within their community. Our network of partners is comprised of more than 50 organizations located in New York’s five boroughs, New York state, New Jersey, Connecticut, Vermont and Massachusetts.

If you are part of an organization who might be interested in bringing financial education to your constituency, please contact us at academy@qualitasoflife.org

Testimonials

Qualitas has had an major impact in our lives. I came to this country to find a better way of life.
And in Qualitas I found the guidance I was looking for in order to plan ahead, know how to distinguish between a need and a desire, and prioritize.
MontseFormer student
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Qualitas was a great propeller for me. I’ve always tried to be organized with my money, yet I haven’t been too successful. It was very useful to learn to distinguish the things I need from the ones I want. This way I can tell my girls that if they are organized they can do whatever they want in their lives
LourdesFormer student
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Luis and Mariela Carbajal are students of the Basic workshop, currently taking place in the Bronx. They are from Peru and have not missed any sessions of the workshop. The interesting feature is that they attend the workshop as a couple that, they say, has helped them more than if only one of them would be attending. They shared with us that “the workshop has helped them attain detailed knowledge about their personal finances and how to best manage their household finances.”
Luis and Mariela CarbajalFormer student
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Qualitas of Life Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides financial education to Hispanic individuals and their families, in order to foster their financial security and improve their standard of living.

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1221 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
646-885-2295

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