MEO offers Teen Financial Literacy workshop to state DLIR program youth

Twenty-nine state labor department summer program participants on Maui and Moloka‘i learned basic financial management in Maui Economic Opportunity Business Development Center’s (BDC’s) Teen Financial Literacy workshop on Monday, June 24.

The youths, ranging from 16 to 18 years old, were participants in the state Department of Labor and Industrial Relations Summer Youth Program.

BDC specialists Lianne Peros-Busch and Jaimie Dukelow on Maui and Lily Napoleon on Moloka‘i taught the class. There were 16 participants in the Maui workshop at MEO Wailuku and 13 in the Moloka‘i class at the MEO office in Kaunakakai.

Topics covered included budgeting and savings, basic banking, applying for jobs, credit and its importance.

Next week, BDC will be offering its annual summer Financial Literacy for Teens workshop at MEO in Wailuku. The two-day workshop will be held from 9 to 11:30 a.m., Monday, July 1, and 9 a.m. to noon, Tuesday, July 2.

To register, go to https://form.jotform.com/211266480815152. The online registration form also can be accessed by going to www.meoinc.org and clicking on ‘Programs & Services,’ ‘Business Development Center’ and ‘Financial Literacy.’

For more information, contact Jaimie Dukelow at 808-243-4309 or email jaimie.dukelow@meoinc.org.