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School Counselors

Invest in your Future, CSLF's early awareness and college planning division is designed to support counselors, students, and families through the college planning process. Invest in your Future staff members are available to provide a variety of outreach services to area high schools. We can visit your school and provide parents and students with financial aid or college planning workshops and provide follow-up sessions for families needing more direct assistance. In addition, our toll-free hotline (1-866-PLAN-4IF), is available to help counselors, students, and families on topics such as completing financial aid applications, scholarship searches, as well as money management skills and budgeting. The Invest in your Future staff can also provide professional development workshops for school counselors on Early College Awareness and Financial Aid.

Tools and Information

College-Sponsored Campus Tours for Counselors
CSLF/Invest in your Future has produced this document for the professional development of school and college counselors. You may download, print, and distribute this to your colleagues in the counseling profession. We do ask that you print them exactly as shown and give credit to CSLF/Invest in your Future. You may also want to review some of our college planning tools as well as our financial aid information on this website. All of our "Tip Sheets" may be downloaded and printed for distribution to your students and their families.

Tip Sheets:
CSLF/Invest in your Future has created several helpful tools that you may download, print, and distribute to your students and their families. We do ask that you print them exactly as shown and give credit to CSLF/Invest in your Future. In addition, several of these tools may be completed online and printed.

Top 10 Financial Aid Mistakes…Buy the Book:
Straight from a successful stint at the Guidance Counselor Fair, you may now view and learn about the 10 most common financial aid mistakes families make. This humorous yet informative text incorporates the use of popular book titles (What to Expect When You're Expecting; Rich Dad, Poor Dad; Hooked on Phonics® Parent's Guide, etc.) to make it easy to remember the tips you won't want to forget. You can also download a printable version of the booklet.

On the Road to Success:
A student guide to college funding providing additional information on college costs, paying for college, managing student loan debt, and other ways to save for college.

Presentations from the 2007 Financial Aid Fair for Education Professionals