True success in life requires balance.

Work and play. Challenge and opportunity. Principle and practice.

TG developed Positive+Balance™ to assist higher education professionals with skills to develop financial literacy for current students and alumni.

Delivered only after detailed department analysis, Positive+Balance programs are customized to meet your individual training needs. We will work with you and your team to identify and design a plan which tackles current issues while moving to establish a financial literacy program focused around a set of specific community-based principles.

Watch this short video to learn more about TG's Positive+Balance financial literacy training programs.

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For financial aid professionals

Positive+Balance includes the following training programs for financial aid professionals:

Starting Balance Courses

• Default Aversion Overview — The tools and techniques for success
• Default Aversion 101 — New to the Industry — Default strategies for success
• Practical Strategies for Default Aversion — Strategies for success
• Student Loan Overview — The different types of loans available

Achieving Balance Courses

• Effective Credit and Debt Management — Empowering students
• Entrance/Exit Counseling Training — Learn new regulations and train to deliver these sessions
• The Brewing Storm: Consumerism and Financial Literacy — Avoiding the financial pitfalls of consumer culture
• The Context: Crisis Averted or Merely Postponed? — Examining long-term cohort default rates, resolving defaults, and curing delinquencies

Maintaining Balance Courses

• Breaking New Ground — A case study of success in default aversion
• Bridging the Gaps — Building better relationships with your lenders and servicers
• Default Aversion Strategies Using IDA™ — Successfully manage your school's cohort default rate
• Identity Theft for Professionals — Preventing one of the fastest growing crimes in the country
• The Big Picture — Understanding default from a broad perspective

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For students

Positive+Balance includes the following training programs for students:

Starting Balance Courses

• Money Management 101 — Managing your money
• Life After College — Launching life and career

Achieving Balance Courses

• Credit Basics — Understanding credit and how it affects your financial well-being
• Credit Card Basics — Avoiding the credit trap
• Expectations — Succeeding after college
• The Brewing Storm: Consumerism and Financial Literacy — Avoiding the financial pitfalls of consumer culture
• What's in Your Piggy Bank? — All about savings and investments

Maintaining Balance Courses

• Consequences of Default — Protecting your investment in you
• Financial Fitness — Spending and saving wisely
• Identity Theft — Preventing one of the fastest growing crimes in the country
• Is Student Loan Consolidation Good for You? — Understanding your options

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For more information,

call Joe Braxton,
(800) 252-9743,
ext. 4696, or
Rett Anderton,
(800) 252-9743,
ext. 4765,
or send an e-mail to positivebalance@tgslc.org.