2025 Personal Finance Seminar for Professionals

EARN: 6 AFC® CEUs, including 1 ethics CEU.

This year's PFS focuses on ’building financial capacity.' Financial capacity empowers individuals to make a broader array of informed life choices. Capacity depends on accurate information, opportunities for building wealth, and strategies to protect resources.

University of Maryland Extension (UME) has a time-honored reputation for bringing together an impressive selection of presenters each year for the Personal Finance Seminar for Professionals (PFS). Be inspired by fresh ideas, new resources, and enhanced skills! We invite you to join us for UME's 2025 Personal Finance Seminar for Professionals.

Yes! We believe that providing the event recording adds tremendous value to this professional development opportunity! Everyone that registers for the event will receive a link to the recording.

PFS participants-- regardless of their backgrounds and roles-- learn about today's most critical financial issues and about how their clients or audiences may be impacted. UME's Personal Finance Seminar for Professionals is relevant to a multi-disciplinary field of professionals-- especially those who interact with individuals, groups, and/or communities regarding any aspect of financial wellness. Many PFS attendees are Accredited Financial Counselors (AFC®), certified through the , but our relevance and reach extend even further!

Through the years, University of Maryland Extension's PFS Planning Committee has been deliberate in responding to the expressed needs of a wide spectrum of service providers, including personal finance professionals from public, private, and not-for-profit organizations, including all branches of the military. Additionally, educators, social workers, volunteers, and a broad range of individual and community advocates have consistently shared with us that UME's PFS has served as a valuable piece of their development as professionals, and that the themes and resources have been highly relevant within the scope of their various roles.

At the time of registration, you will have the option to indicate if you require a Certificate of Attendance. Certificates will be sent after the conference to the email used on the registration form. A certificate is not needed for AFC® CEUs

6 AFC® CEUs, including 1 ethics CEU are offered through the ) for this event.

If you are unable to attend the live-stream event on the scheduled date for the PFS, you will still have access to the recording and all supplemental materials! Unfortunately, refunds cannot be issued for cancellation of registration for this event. There is an option to transfer your registration to someone else.

We're eager for you to learn more! Check out our University of Maryland Extension website for the Personal Finance Seminar for Professionals: www.extension.umd.edu/pfs

If you still have questions, we would love to hear from you! Contact our PFS Coordinator, Jesse Ketterman at: [email protected] OR co-coordinator, Dorothy Nuckols at: [email protected]

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