Financial Wellness

Managing your finances can be challenging, especially on a student budget. Gaining control over your finances while in college can have huge benefits during and after you graduate. Financial wellness is defined as the ability to manage one's finances and having financial security and freedom of choice, in the present and future.

Financial stress may compromise your ability to focus in the classroom and negatively affects your mental and physical health.

Gain skills in managing your finances while going to college. Financial wellness is not a destination, but a journey that is ever changing as you progress through life.

Financial Wellness Reflection:

Have I set financial goals for this year? For the next 5 years?
Do I use my finances to support activities that give meaning to my life or the lives of others?
How can I better examine my priorities and goals when it comes to my spending & saving habits?
What have I spent money on recently? Were these purchases necessary?
Do the finances I have match my needs?

Student Life Emergency Fund

Emergency funds are available to you if you are unable to meet immediate, essential expenses due to a temporary hardship related to an emergency situation that may jeopardize your health, safety and/or academic performance. Funds may be granted to you to help alleviate financial hardships that are brought on by these circumstances. Please email deanofstudents@usfca.edu for more information.

Financial Wellness Discussion on Instagram

Check out our IGTV channel with Latinas Talk Dinero and Office of Dean of Students to learn more about Financial Literacy!

Upcoming Financial Workshops

Sharpen your financial management skills during a free virtual workshop series with certified financial counselors from the San Francisco Financial Empowerment Center.

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GOT CREDIT?

November 19 | 1:00 - 2:00pm | Zoom

It pays to keep track of your credit score and understand how your actions affect the numbers. Come learn how to build, defend, and take advantage of great credit. Register

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PSYCHOLOGY OF SPENDING

December 10 | 3:00 - 4:00pm | Zoom

We all have a “money personality”. It has an impact on our relationship with money and spending habits. This session will teach strategies to decode personality types to gain control over finances. Register

Resources

USF Financial Aid Office - Provides you with invaluable information to fund your education, call (415) 422-3387.
Cash Course - Helps you learn the financial skills that you need to create the future you want.
1:1 Wellness Checks - We offer wellness checks to help you set a plan of action to improve your finacnial wellness.
Mint App - A budget tracker that helps make money management simpler and more seamless.
Federal Trade Commission - Provides online forms to manage your money, and tips to prevent identity theft and scams.
First Gen Fund - An organization providing essential resources and meaningful support to first generation students.
SF Financial Counseling, one of the flagship programs of the San Francisco Office of Financial Empowerment, provides free one-on-one financial counseling to anyone who lives, works, or receives services in San Francisco, regardless of immigration status. To make an appointment for a no-cost financial counseling session with an SF Financial Counselor, visit https://www.sfgov.org/ofe/meet-financial-counselor.