Description

Learn how to determine if you have too much debt. Hear about different options to pay off debt, including local, confidential, one-on-one financial counseling, as well as free, online debt repayment tools to help debtors become savers. Learn how to improve your credit scores by contacting creditors, negotiating debt obligations, and eliminating errors in your credit reports.

Financial Fitness is a series of free, in-person, interactive workshops to help people improve their financial wellbeing. The workshops will address topics related to saving & spending, credit & debt, and more. Topics have been chosen based on input from the local community; the emphasis and focus will be modified to meet the specific needs of attendees.

Children are welcome at these sessions; snacks will be provided.

This series of workshops is supported financially by the Alfred Bersted Foundation, Bank of America, N.A., Trustee, sponsored by Habitat for Humanity of DeKalb County and the DeKalb Public Library, and presented by experts from Old National Bank.

No registration is required. These workshops are intended for adults.

For additional information, please contact Samantha at samanthah@dkpl.org or at (815) 756-9568 ext. 1701.