To help young Canadians prepare for the challenge of financing a post-secondary education, the Financial Planners Standards Council has launched an online financial planning tool kit. The Tool Kit is part of FPSC’s new online Learning Centre launched earlier this month.

The new resource for students and teachers was developed in collaboration with Certified Financial Planners.

To help secondary school educators introduce students to the Tool Kit and to elaborate on the financial planning concepts presented in it, FPSC arranges for CFP volunteers to visit secondary schools across Canada.

“The concepts of financial planning are relevant to everyone, regardless of their financial situation or age,” said Ingrid Rinaldi, CFP, who was volunteer presenter at Loretto Abbey Catholic Secondary school in North York earlier this year. “I used the Tool Kit to introduce basic financial planning concepts such as goal setting, budgeting and cash flow,” added Rinaldi, who works at Berkshire Securities Inc.

The free Tool Kit is available to the public online in FPSC’s new Learning Centre located in the resource section of the FPSC Web site.