Understanding Your Credit

Understanding Your Credit

The first step to financial empowerment is ensuring you, yourself are financially stable. Over the next 8 months, Every Woman's Center in conjunction with the Center for Women and Enterprise will be hosting financial classes to help women financially empower themselves.

The first class in the series is Understanding Your Credit, This workshop will help you understand the importance of managing your credit and how it can affect your personal financial health. You will learn the costs of having poor credit and the advantages of investing time into improving and managing it. In this session, you will learn:

• About credit reports and what they contain
• How credit scores are calculated
• What predatory lending practices are and how to watch out for them
• Debt reduction strategies
• How to avoid identity theft

This workshop is recommended for those who are interested in improving their credit or building a credit history. Those clients who are unsure what their credit report contains will also benefit by attending the workshop.