BRINGING TOGETHER

 

Resources for Financial Advisors - Impacting your community

 

Help all parents assure that their sons and daughters:

• Thrive spiritually in college

• Reduce college costs and debt

• Find fitting and marketable careers and callings

A Christian advisor has a unique opportunity to speak into the life of a family and help them achieve clarity of purpose and life, as well as avoiding debilitating student debt.   Educational material on this website will help you to benefit families, pastors, and leaders in your communty.  The faith Transition & Career resources on this site will help parents and grandparents prepare their students for the transition to college and independence.  We will regularly provide you with rich content you can share with clients, prospects, friends and pastors.  See the below button.

4 Ways to Help your Clients

• Faith College Transition - Churches, families, and schools who have used these free resources have seen the typical 70% college faith drop-out rate nearly eliminated, and students prepared to impact college campuses for Christ.
• Financial - Reducing College Cost & Debt - This section helps families understand the weight of debt, and how to understand the college business model so they can be more informed.  We also offer services that cover from high school through grad school and their first job. In 2004 Paul Celuch, the founder of College Assistance Plus, a friend of Larry Burkett, was teaching Crown Financial Ministries courses in his Lima NY church, when he developed a process to negotiate lower college costs, regardless of family income.  CAPlus has since worked with over 7000 students with a team that provides a large suite of services.  Paul also has also joined Steve Moore on Moneywise a number of times.
• Career, Major, and College Selection.  – Finding a fitting and marketable career and calling is essential for success.   Our track record of helping our clients get their first solid position, has enabled our bank partner to provide a portion of loans to our clients WITHOUT a co-signer.
• Student Loans and Refinancing – We are constantly reviewing the market for the best loan terms and co-singer release provisions.  We help with original loans, and refinance and consolidation.  See above bullet about no-cosigner options.

Here’s how you can continue to receive college related tips and resources for you and your clients.

Ways we partner

Financial advisors, credit unions, and their clients have benefited greatly from College Assistance Plus and more recently from the Believers College Prep resource site.  CAPlus conducts regular training events for small and large firms including Northwestern Mutual, Massachusetts Mutual, and AXA.  More recently we are partnering with Christian High Schools across the US.

Approximately 20% of CAPlus clients are grandparents who are looking for a leveraged way to financially help their grandchildren and for someone to provide extended guidance on career, major, and college.  We are happy to be an educational resource for you for any questions you may have about the FAFSA, 529 plans, or any simple or complex situations regarding college.  Just contact us at 315-656-7973 or jdecker@CollegeAssistancePlus.com and we’ll share how we can assist your practice and accelerate the movement to help students survive, thrive, and make an impact at college.

The last image is a PDF and brochure that is suitable for general audiences.   The website www.BelieversCollegePrep.com is an excellent resource and education site for Christians.

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How to work with College Assistance Plus

1. Arrange a call  to learn more with John Decker, the CAPlus Believers College Prep division director at 315-656-7973 or jdecker@CollegeAssistancePlus.com.
2. We can help with your clients or prospects in a number of ways:
   • Simply share the www.BelieversCollegePrep.com website or the above the general PDF with your clients/prospects, church, school, or organization
   • Be a resource for your questions and collaborate with you and your clients on developing the best strategies.
   • Invite them to a Free Strategy Talk as shown below which they can do alone or with you on a 3-way call.  I will send them a Student Profile in advance to learn more about their situation, in order to provide specific actionable strategies.
3. Discuss with us ways we can help you expand your reach and help your community

We’d love to get to know you and your practice and discuss ways we can help you, and help your community.

Feel free to set up a call any time.

John Decker       315-480-1232       john@BelieversCollegePrep.com