AKRON, Ohio -- Akron Mayor Dan Horrigan’s Youth Leadership Council, in partnership with the Akron Financial Empowerment Center and Huntington Bank, is scheduled to host a pair of free financial education workshops for adults.

The workshops, set for Tuesday and Oct. 22 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., will be held at Akron’s Financial Empowerment Center at 1060 Kenmore Boulevard. Online registration is available here.

Workshop topics include bank services, loans, homeownership, how to build and manage credit and financial recovery.

The Financial Empowerment Center is a program of the city of Akron and the United Way that provides financial coaching to help people budget, save and improve their banking practices and credit scores.

“Providing an opportunity for adults to sharpen their financial literacy is important, and empowering parents with healthy financial habits will enable them to instill those lessons in their children,” said Myra Snipes, Akron’s diversity and training manager who oversees the Mayor’s Youth Leadership Council.

Young people who are interested in earning money for college while teaching their peers about financial responsibility can apply to be a Teen Financial Literacy Facilitator for Akron Public Schools students in grades 10, 11 and 12.

Teen facilitators will lead other students in financial literacy lessons and workshops provided by the Mayor’s Youth Leadership Council and the U.S. Conference of Mayor’s DollarWise financial literacy initiative. After the program, the city will place a $200 deposit into a savings account for the facilitator. Teens can also qualify for a $1,000 college scholarship.

This year, Ky’Asia Williams won the Teens and Money Workshop $1,000 Facilitator Scholarship drawing. A 2019 graduate of Akron Buchtel High School, Williams led 127 of her peers in lessons on budgeting, credit cards and student loans.

Robert Tranthem, a sophomore at Firestone High School, won the Teens and Money Workshop $500 Participant Scholarship drawing. He qualified for the drawing by completing all three financial literacy lessons offered last school year by Mayor’s Youth Leadership Council facilitators.

For more information, visit www.MYLCAkron.org.

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