Financial Literacy

Financial literacy is the ability to understand and effectively use various financial skills, including personal financial management, budgeting, and investing. Developing financial literacy to improve your personal finances involves learning and practicing a variety of skills related to budgeting, managing and paying off debts, and understanding credit and investment products.
Some potential strategies include:

• Creating a budget
• Build savings
• Manage bill paying
• Get your credit score
• Manage debt
• Invest in your future

HELP Week

Healthy Energy Live Positively (HELP) week is an event dedicated to kicking off wellness in the Case Greek community IN STYLE. This is a week composed of wellness-related challenges and events that you can attend and participate in to learn more about Wellness and also practice Wellness for yourself! In addition to this, all IFC/PHC umbrella business meetings will be suspended and we will be pushing for chapters to suspend business meetings during this week too! You will be able to earn Greek Games Points by Participating in Wellness Week events and challenges! The following are the events and challenges for Wellness Week:

1. Sunday, 4/4/21: What did you do instead of Chapter today? (submit a pic and/or a blurb)
2. Monday, 4/5/21: Let’s Talk about Sexual Wellness, Baby (Hosted by SMARRT). The chapter will receive Greek Games Points for attendance and further for every 25% of the Chapter present
3. Tuesday, 4/6/21: Relaaaaax (submit a relaxation pic and/or a blurb)
4. Wednesday, 4/7/21: Come and talk to Greek housing directors and learn about mental wellness and resources available
5. Thursday, 4/8/21: Physical Wellness Day!!! Feat. a free Zoom Yoga session through One-to-One fitness!
6. Friday, 4/9/21: What’s Cookin’? Cook something for yourself and submit a picture, winners will get Greek Games points for their chapter
7. Saturday, 4/10/21: Take a Walk! Take a walk anywhere anytime throughout the week and submit a pic under these 3 categories:
   1. Just Natural: Nature pics
   2. In the city: Urban pics
   3. Goofy Goobers: Goofy pics

Steps to Financial Wellness

April is financial literacy month. Here are some steps to begin to improve your financial wellness. Click here to see the full article and more steps to Financial Wellness.

1. Commit to change
2. Assess your finances
3. Get copies of your credit report
4. Review your debt situation
5. Set your priorities
6. Pay down your debt
7. Safe for your goals
8. Identify and document fixed monthly expenses
9. Reduce Spending
10. Keep moving forward

Events

Its on us CWRU Campaign

The Greek Life Office is encouraging the Greek community to participate in the It’s On CWRU campaign. The Flora Stone Mather Center for Women provides violence prevention education programs to the CWRU community through this campaign. It’s On CWRU’s mission is to disrupt the culture of violence through evidence-informed education, mutual aid, and survivor
support. We achieve our mission by shifting dominant community attitudes about sexual violence and establishing personal responsibility to support a culture of healing. The Center for Women prevention education work is focused on three key areas: bystander intervention, consent education, and survivor support.
Participants in education programs will be able to:

• define key terms and identify the root causes of power- and gender-based violence;

• debunk myths and de-stigmatize facts about sexual violence; 

• identify resources for continued education and services that may assist survivors;

• understand the role that all members of our community play in ending violence; and

• implement strategies to intervene as a prosocial bystander.

To find out more about the It’s On CWRU initiative and how you can get involved, you can attend the next information session on Monday, April 12, 2021 from 4 to 4:30 p.m. You can sign up for this session at this link: http://cglink.me/2cS/r991179.

Prevention Advocacy

The Prevention Advocacy Compliance Clery Team is committed to providing ongoing updates, resources, and support to all CWRU community members impacted by sexual violence. The Center for Women has created a guidebook that acts as a non-exhaustive overview of survivor support resources, violence prevention education, and CWRU sexual harassment policy guidelines. It continues to be updated and expanded as we respond to the needs of our community. While this provides basic information regarding sexual violence prevention and response, readers are encouraged to seek out more in-depth explanations from the information sources provided throughout the guidebook. You can access the guidebook here: https://case.edu/centerforwomen/sites/case.edu.centerforwomen/files/2021-02/PACCT%20Guidebook%2002-18-2021.pdf.

How to Get Involved:There are many options for the Greek community to get involved in violence prevention and creating a safer Greek community:

1. Community members can pre-order a It's On CWRU Toolkit for your student organization, residence hall, office, community space, or classroom. To get more information on how to request a toolkit, you can email the Center for Women at centerforwomen@case.edu.
2. The Center for Women is providing Prosocial Bystander campus-wide training. Dates for deliveries fall on the third Tuesday of each month, 6 to 7:30 p.m. You can sign up for the March 16 training at this link: http://cglink.me/2cS/r991282 or the training on April 20 at this link: http://cglink.me/2cS/r991300.
3. Coming up in April there will be Sexual Assault Awareness Month events, so please stay tuned for event announcements!
4. You can host a Mather Center workshop for your residence hall, student organization, campus department, or community group. To request one of these workshops, you can fill out this form: https://cwru.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9vQohlvqDqe9KtM.
5. You can sign up for the Mather Center’s Newsletters. Email newsletters are sent once a week and highlight upcoming events and programs. You can sign up for these newsletters at this link: https://us13.list- manage.com/subscribe?u=9344b335f464dde66035dfcc2&id=8b986e05e4.
6. Follow the Mather Center for Women on Facebook @FloraStoneMather.CenterForWomen and on Instagram @florastonemathercenter.
7. For more information about the Center for Women or about programming, you can visit their website at https://case.edu/centerforwomen/.