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eMailCourse Description: This researched and evidence-based course is most often required for persons who have been charged with Issuance of a Bad Check and/or placed on probation for Theft by Check, Credit or Debit Card Abuse, or Criminal Mischief. It is also appropriate for those who just need to improve their financial management skills. This 6-hour course is designed to teach participants to understand the process of how to change behavior, to discover how attitudes or beliefs can affect behavior, to understand how to control attitudes and emotions and take more control of their lives, to decide to make positive steps to alter present behavior, and to make a commitment to understand how to create a budget and balance a checkbook. Skills taught are balancing a checking account, budgeting, responsibility, coping with stress, making healthy choices, determining Wants vs. Needs, self-improvement and goal-setting.
Course Information
Cost: The cost of this course is $50. There will be no checks accepted for this course. Students must pay by either cash or money order. Refunds or class transfers must be requested at least one day prior to the start of class. After this period, students will be required to register and pay for another class.
Registration: Full registration instructions are located on the schedule (available below). For classes in Hereford, students should follow the same registration instructions in order to reserve their space in class. Students are required to register and pay prior to the first class. It is recommended that students register as early as possible, because classes reach maximum enrollment quickly.
Download class schedule here.
Enrollment Eligibility Notice: Students with outstanding obligations to Amarillo College may not be allowed to enroll in or complete a continuing education course until the obligations are fulfilled. Students who have received a Criminal Trespass Warning from Amarillo College will not be allowed to enroll in courses held on any AC campus unless the warning has been lifted.
Attendance: Students must be on time and attend all sessions in consecutive order. There will be no exceptions or make-up classes allowed.
Questions: For questions regarding our programs, call (806) 356-3649 or (806)356-3682 or e-mail wallace-ec@actx.edu. Se habla español.
Any student, who because of a disabling condition may require some special arrangements in order to meet course requirements, should contact disAbility Services (SSC 119, Phone 371-5436) as soon as possible.