Check Writer Educational Course
All check writers are required to complete an educational course that teaches
them how to get and keep control of finances. It is proven that these courses
lower the number of repeat offenders.
Fewer repeat offenders mean fewer bad checks.
The four-hour course goes far beyond how to
balance a check book. The class stresses that writing bad checks is a crime.
There is a section devoted to handling a checking account responsibly including
exercises on balancing and reconciling a checking account.
After that, the course examines how to budget and plan
for all kinds of expenses, how to stretch dollars, and how to save money in all
segments of a person’s finances.
The material is presented in a helpful manner that
treats the person’s bad check(s) as a financial injury and explains how to
recover from that injury in a way that encourages the person to improve the way
he or she handles money.
This is the same Check Writer Educational
Course that has been praised and used by District Attorneys across the country.
It is also praised by check writers who are required to complete the course as
part of their diversion.