Money IN/Money OUT SUPPLEMENTAL TRAINING MATERIALS

[Sample Agent Commitment]

AGENT COMMITMENT

Congratulations for scheduling the time to take part in this training! It will build your confidence in planning and delivering this much-needed information. To make Money IN/Money OUT succeed, you need to make these commitments to yourself--and to your clientele who need this training.

1. I will keep a log of my activities related to the new Money IN/Money OUT and PowerPay curricula, noting the dates, actions, other people involved, and estimated time used in offering MI/MO to employers and other organizations. (See Item #6 for details about your log.)

2. I will discuss the Money IN/Money OUT curriculum with my county director and my Advisory Committee, and ask for suggestions of employers and other groups who need this training. I will ask my Advisory Committee to consider the long-term possibility of training volunteers in Money IN/Money OUT, which would reach a far greater number of people with the Money IN/Money OUT focus on reporting specific levels of debt reduction and increased savings.

3. I will do my best to persuade at least one employer (with ANY type of organization) to offer Money IN/Money OUT to employees within the next six months. [A good sample requires at least 14 counties that reach at least 30 people each. If you can't reach that many people, can you cooperate with agents in one or two neighboring counties and report your combined efforts?]

4. I will encourage all employers (or other group leaders) who agree to let me deliver Money IN/Money OUT to promote MI/MO to their own employees (members) as something that the company/agency/organization thinks would be a useful thing for employees/members to take part in.

5. I will monitor my calendar and send the 6-month survey to participants on schedule, study the responses, and forward the surveys to the state specialist. I will also send the 12-month survey on schedule, study the responses, and forward those surveys to the state specialist.

6. I will send my log to the state specialist, along with the 12-month follow- up surveys, including any comments that might be of use in analyzing program impacts and making revisions in the curriculum itself or in procedures for delivering the curriculum--such things as:
-comments from CED and Advisory Leadership committee members
-list of employers approached and comments they made (plus your comments about what works and what doesn't work with different employers!)
-description of circumstances each time you offered the complete course (at least 4 weeks) - noting the employer or other group affiliation, dates, time of day (with length of sessions), location of training, number of participants who started and number who completed the course, and the evaluations from those participants
-candid comments by participants
-quotes reflecting the attitude of employers AFTER the course
-list of other ways you used MI/MO--in whole or in part, in NON-worksite settings
-description of how much you used PowerPay and what you think of it
-your overall asessment on the value of this program
-WHAT YOU STILL NEED

7. I will include MI/MO & PowerPay impacts in my ERS data, narratives, success stories

_{North Carolina State University
College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
North Carolina Cooperative Extension Service
Family & Consumer Sciences Department}