The Community Education Program is a free, ready-to-run, one-hour class built from one practical, useful slice of the guide — not a summary of the whole book. It’s designed for libraries, adult-education centers, support organizations, and financial-literacy programs that want to offer a genuinely useful session to the public without requiring anyone to own or read the companion guide first.
Example: the Consumer Fraud program is called “Stop, Verify, Evaluate: A Practical System for Spotting Scams Before You
Lose Money” — built around one decision-making framework rather than a chapter-by-chapter recap. Every title’s program is framed the same way, around its own central framework.
The 60-Minute Format
Every program follows the same timed structure:
- Minutes 0–5 — a hook establishing why the issue matters
- Minutes 5–15 — core concepts and shared vocabulary
- Minutes 15–30 — the session’s primary decision framework or practical tool
- Minutes 30–45 — guided application using realistic, fictional scenarios
- Minutes 45–53 — a personal or household action exercise
- Minutes 53–57 — what to do next, and where to verify it
- Minutes 57–60 — questions and optional deeper resources
What’s Included
- Program Overview (1–2 pages) — a decision sheet for a host organization: what the session covers, who it’s for, and what the host needs to provide.
- Facilitator Guide (5–10 pages) — everything needed to run the session with no extra prep: timing, teaching notes for every segment, discussion prompts, and guidance on when to redirect a question to a licensed professional.
- Presentation (20–30 slides) — the complete 60-minute teaching deck.
- Participant Workbook (8–15 pages) — every exercise, checklist, and worksheet used during the session, standalone and reproducible for attendees.
- Promotional Flyer (1 page) — an editable flyer with space for the host’s date, time, registration, and contact details.
- Evaluation / Preview Packet (6–12 pages) — a packet for host organizations deciding whether to book the program — why it’s useful, what’s included, a sample activity, and a host readiness checklist.
What the Host Provides
- A room or virtual platform suitable for a one-hour program
- A display for the presentation
- One participant workbook per attendee, printed or digital
- A facilitator comfortable leading discussion and keeping the session educational rather than individualized
Built-In Guardrails
- Fictional scenarios only — participants are never asked to disclose personal legal, financial, medical, or safety details in the room
- Plain language, with unfamiliar terms defined at first use
- Teaches participants how to verify state-specific or time-sensitive rules rather than presenting them as fixed
- No sales pitch during instruction — the companion guide and series site appear only as an optional follow-up resource
- No promised outcomes, savings, recoveries, or results of any kind
Standard Consumer Education Notice
This program provides general consumer education. It does not provide individualized legal, financial, tax, investment, medical, insurance, or other professional advice. Rules, deadlines, benefits, prices, and protections can vary by jurisdiction and change over time. Participants should verify current information with official sources and consult a qualified professional when a decision has significant consequences.
Reproduction License
A host organization may print or photocopy the participant workbook and promotional flyer for attendees of a live or virtual presentation of this program. Materials may not be resold, posted as a standalone public download, republished, altered to imply a different author or publisher, or incorporated into a commercial course without written permission from Ask a Friend Publishing LLC.
Source Materials for 1 hour seminar
No book is required to complete the seminar — everything a participant needs is in the workbook and printables packet. The companion guide is offered only as an optional deeper resource, and each workshop also points participants to the relevant outside official resources for that topic, presented the same way at the end of every workshop:
No book is required for this seminar. Optional deeper reference: (for example)
Consumer Fraud: Protect Yourself from Scams and the Shadow System
Owen Walcher
Ask a Friend Publishing LLC
Paperback ISBN: 979-8-953171-04-5
Hardcopy ISBN: 979-8-953171-05-2
Who It’s For
Libraries, adult-education centers, financial-literacy and support organizations, and community groups looking for a single, free, no-strings-attached session to offer their members or patrons.
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