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College affordability is much more than just FAFSA/CADAA completion during senior year. Given your success in senior year, try adding in college affordability planning content starting as early as 6th grade to help reduce confusion and stress for students and their families during senior year. This step by step guide will help you get started.

Financial literacy is broad and critically important Everfi offers financial literacy lessons to teach students how to make wise financial decisions to promote financial well-being over their lifetime.

College affordability is much more than just FAFSA/CADAA completion during senior year. Given your success in senior year, try adding in college affordability planning content starting as early as 6th grade. Taking a developmental approach and starting these conversations early eliminates confusion and stress for students and their families during senior year.

This guide helps parents navigate the FAFSA.

A video that gives an overview of the FAFSA and the role it plays in the financial aid process to inform students and families on what they need to collect for FAFSA/CADAA prior to sitting down to work on the forms.

A resource to help communicate the tasks and timeline for financial aid for Spanish-speaking families. This checklist also includes a helpful timeline of all the steps in the financial aid process, which also serves as a critical reminder that there are many more steps beyond FAFSA/CADAA completion.

A resource to help communicate the tasks and timeline for financial aid for English-speaking families. This checklist also includes a helpful timeline of all the steps in the financial aid process, which also serves as a critical reminder that there are many more steps beyond FAFSA/CADAA completion.

This 15-month calendar from NCAN will help K-12 districts, schools, and the partners who work with them plan ahead and find the best resources to support their college and career readiness work for high school juniors and seniors. This is a great starting point to plan your engagement with students and their families.

Begin communicating with students’ families as early in their high school career as possible about postsecondary plans and the associated costs. Some ways in which you can go about this include family newsletters, family financial aid nights (with translators if possible) and offering one on one meetings with parents to focus solely on the college financial aid process.