This companion guide to Your Money, Your Goals offers financial tools and approaches tailored for Native communities. Created by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, it highlights strengths, values, and financial practices rooted in Indigenous cultures while offering practical worksheets on budgeting, planning, savings, and goal setting. For Tribal TANF or TANF programs working with Native participants and families, this guide can help make financial education more relevant used one on one in case management or shared in group workshops.

This website is a free financial empowerment toolkit from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau designed to help frontline staff talk about money with the people they serve and support their meaningful financial progress. It includes 40+ practical tools and handouts on budgeting, tracking income and benefits, managing debt, understanding credit, choosing financial products, and protecting money from scams. TANF programs can share these easy‑to‑use worksheets and guides with participants or integrate them into case management and coaching to help people set financial goals, make smart money decisions, and build stability on their path to long‑term economic security.

This free financial education resource from the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas offers straightforward, beginner‑level guidance on building personal financial stability and wealth. The guide walks through key topics like setting goals, creating a budget, saving and investing, managing debt, building credit, and protecting earnings — all framed in an approachable way for individuals and families. TANF programs can share this with participants as a practical tool for strengthening financial confidence and planning and building habits that support long‑term economic security.

This tipsheet provides examples of strategies that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs can use to support family economic security by helping TANF recipients make intentional and healthy decisions about their families. An unintended pregnancy can make it harder for TANF participants to improve their economic well-being and independence. Family-centered services, such as employment coaching, home visiting, mentoring, and access to family planning services, can support TANF participants in making intentional and healthy choices for their families.

This tipsheet provides examples of strategies that Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs can use to empower parents to make informed decisions about their family planning through financial capability services. An unintended pregnancy may make it harder for TANF participants to improve their economic well-being and independence. Financial capability services such as financial planning classes and integrating financial planning into relationship education for families can support TANF participants in making stronger financial choices for their families, including whether to have another child.

This Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation webpage provides games, a glossary, and resources to teach people of all ages about money and increase financial literacy. It contains additional resources and tools on how to build a financial future, build and maintain good credit, and manage debt.

The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration is hosting a webinar on January 21, 2025 at 2:00 p.m. ET, which will address the economic stability of service members, Veterans, and their families (SMVF). This webinar will explore critical areas such as employment opportunities, income supports, SSI/SSDI, Outreach, Access, and Recovery (SOAR) for Veterans, and housing solutions, providing valuable information and resources to support maintaining or achieving economic stability among the SMVF community.

A growing number of local governments and nonprofit organizations across the United States are experimenting with guaranteed income programs, often with the goal of supporting low-income families and individuals. The results of many of these newer efforts are still being measured and assessed, but there are earlier programs that can provide insights into long-term effects. The Institute for Research on Poverty hosted a webinar in December 2024 to share research on cash transfer programs begun or conducted in previous decades, including Native American tribal casino dividends, the Mincome project, and the Alaska Dividend.

The Resilient Families Hub is a new initiative of the Office of Family Assistance (OFA) and exists to understand the role of direct cash transfers in advancing economic stability and mobility in the United States. This initiative works with federal, state, and local governments and community-based organizations to provide subject matter expertise, research findings and evidence-based policies and practices around the targeted use of direct cash. Resilient Families’ publications and learning series will be published on this OFA webpage as they become available.

To better understand families’ circumstances, their resources, and the costs of fully participating in the society and economy, the Urban Institute developed a “true cost of economic security” measure. They designed the measure with accuracy and replicability in mind, using high-quality publicly accessible data collected regularly to capture variations across states and all areas to explore differences by age, family structure, and race and ethnicity. The Urban Institute is hosting a webinar on November 20, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. ET to discuss their new measure and how to leverage insights from this research to improve American families’ well-being.