Outreach & Training
Under the direction of Mikael Wagner, Director of Training and Outreach, Consumer Action’s multilingual and multicultural Community Outreach Managers counsel consumers, offer technical advice, conduct train-the-trainer workshops and presentations at community events and national conferences and provide expert analysis and commentary to English, Spanish and Chinese media on a variety of consumer issues. Aware that the best way to reach vulnerable consumer populations is to work with trusted community entities, Consumer Action’s outreach… Read More »
- Privacy training offers valuable tips, tools to CA groups (Oct 02, 2009)
On September 16th, Consumer Action and its Privacy Information Project hosted a Credit File Security Freeze Roundtable in Riverside, California.… - Privacy Rights Workshop A Big Hit In Seaside (Jun 17, 2009)
Participants came to the training with a thirst for knowledge and numerous questions about privacy and particularly identity (ID) theft,… - Consumer Action and Capital One Bank host financial literacy training in Austin (Mar 03, 2009)
More than fifty organizations from Texas gathered in Austin to… - Atlanta CBOs join fight against fraud (Dec 30, 2008)
Phishing, pharming, and triangulation. These were among the scams that Atlanta-area community groups learned about during Consumer Action’s anti-fraud train-the-trainer… - Sacramento non-profits learn about consumer privacy (Dec 29, 2008)
Consumer Action held a train-the-trainer session alongside the Sacramento River near the California State Capitol Building on Dec. 10. Community… - Fall 2008 MoneyWi$e trainings leave wide national footprint (Dec 09, 2008)
Consumer Action trainers Sol Carbonell and Nelson Santiago traveled up and down the coast during October, providing MoneyWi$e financial literacy… - Privacy training in San Diego (Aug 26, 2008)
On Wednesday, Aug. 20, San Diego community-based organizations welcomed the Consumer Action training team for a training… - When was your last financial check-up? (Aug 11, 2008)
When Consumer Action’s Community Outreach Manager Linda Williams asked participants in her Money Management workshop, “When was your last financial… - Outreach staff goes to Thai town (Aug 07, 2008)
Fair-goers at the Thai Community Development Center's Health and Consumer Resource Fair got physical and financial fitness check ups. A… - Financial Literacy and Consumer Protection Symposium - WI (May 30, 2008)
More than 70 case managers, social service providers and representatives from community organizations gathered in Madison, WI, on May 15th… - Louisiana agencies learn about MoneyWi$e (May 30, 2008)
On a mission to educate consumers about good money management, Consumer Action and Capital One headed to Louisiana to share… - MoneyWi$e Roundtable in El Paso (May 30, 2008)
Consumer Action’s Sol Carbonell and Audrey Perrott conducted a MoneyWi$e Roundtable in El Paso, TX on April 30th. 40 participants… - Training Los Angeles County social workers (Apr 16, 2008)
Linda Williams of Consumer Action conducted a training on April 16 for 175 Los Angeles County Social Workers on topics… - Credit card fraud and identity theft training (Apr 01, 2008)
Hosted at the Mission Inn Hotel in Riverside, California, on March 19th, the training offered attendees information and resources to… - Privacy roundtables (Mar 11, 2008)
During the month of February 2008, Consumer Action’s…
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