Prison Education Program

Build Your Financial Future: Stabilize And Grow

This guide is the second in Level’s financial literacy series and focuses on strengthening your financial foundation. This guide provides actionable strategies for building a safety net, managing debt, and using relational thinking to make informed choices. Learn how to navigate complex financial systems with confidence and long-term vision.

Enrollment fee is a one-time payment that includes this guide and Level's entire prison education program including all educational and job training guides and all certificates. No hidden monthly payments or recurring fees. The enrollment fee includes shipping.

What they'll learn:

  • Learn how to adjust financial goals based on lived experience and day-to-day reality
  • Use relational thinking and percentages to understand the scale and context of money decisions
  • Compare debt repayment strategies to find what works best for you
  • Understand your legal rights when managing debt collections
  • Identify reputable resources for financial counseling and help
  • Explore long-term planning options, including employer-sponsored retirement accounts

Guide includes:

Finances
Math
Reentry
Planning

Schedule

Self-guided - learners complete at their own pace

Guide length

52 pages

Time to complete

~10 hours

What is Level?

Level is a popular, independent, nonprofit prison education program that offers education, career training and personal development for people in prison and connects with family members and supporters on the outside. Our unique approach can reach nearly any person at any prison, even those in high security or solitary confinement. 7,049 people in prison have spent 100,400 hours using the Level program inside 1,067 prisons across the country.

Testimonials for this guide:

I cannot thank Level enough for these guides and the knowledge that they contain. All of you all there at Level have given me the opportunity to show the initiative that I am putting into my rehabilitative efforts with each one of these certificates. So, from the four corners of my heart... I say thank you.

- Christopher, in prison in Illinois

Thank you for giving me this opportunity and giving me a chance to learn more about my options and what I may do when I become a part of society once more. Level is life changing. This guide is written in a way that not only captured my attention but also made me excited to learn more. I tell everyone about Level.

- Preston, incarcerated in Pennsylvania

While other organizations tell us to hook up with them when we get out, Level is actually doing something for us while we're stuck here. Educational opportunities are in short supply. I've been in prison 21 years, since I was 17. I can't thank you enough. Level has done more for me than other so-called advocates.

- Dominic, in prison in Pennsylvania