The Grace Center
of Southern Oklahoma
The Financial Literacy program equips clients with the money management skills they need for long-term financial wellbeing and stability. The curriculum focuses on the importance of saving and budgeting while emphasizing the risks of debt and credit.
The curriculum explores budgeting, savings, debt, interest, investing, and giving, as well as job readiness, over six to eight weeks. Students build strong money habits that they begin to apply immediately and reduce their risk of mistakes that lead to disastrous money struggles.
The Financial Literacy course teaches personal finance and life skills to Grace Center clients, as well as those who are working to reenter society and/or the labor force through local sober-living houses, recovery programs, and community groups. Current and past partners include Broadway House, Destiny Recovery Center, Naomi House, Outcasts Under Transformation, and the Chickasaw Nation Reentry Program.
The Grace Center's Financial Literacy program receives financial and technical support from national nonprofit Pro Literacy through the support of the Dollar General Literacy Foundation.
To enroll or learn more about the course, call the Grace Center at 580-223-2027. The class is limited to 8 students.
To learn more about the program, please contact:
Connie Applegate, Financial Literacy Coordinator
A group of Financial Literacy Program graduates pose for a celebratory photo on their final class.