The Economic Mobility Shared Language Guide is a practical reference tool designed to help participants, coaches, and practitioners build a common language for navigating benefits, employment, education, financial services, taxes, and long-term economic mobility. Economic systems often involve unfamiliar terminology that can create confusion, uncertainty, or hesitation when making important decisions. This guide translates those terms into clear, everyday language by providing simple definitions, common names, and real-world relevance for each concept. By reducing jargon and increasing understanding, the guide helps participants engage more confidently in coaching conversations, benefit planning discussions, workforce development activities, and financial decision-making. It also supports practitioners by creating consistency in how key concepts are explained across programs and services.
How to Use This Tool: Use the Shared Language Guide whenever unfamiliar terms arise during coaching sessions, workshops, career planning conversations, benefit cliff discussions, financial education activities, or independent learning. Encourage participants to reference the guide when they encounter words or phrases they do not recognize, and use it as a conversation aid to clarify concepts before moving into planning or decision-making. Practitioners can incorporate the guide into group activities, one-on-one coaching, and resource navigation discussions to build understanding, reduce confusion, and strengthen participant confidence. This tool is designed to create a shared foundation of knowledge that supports informed decision-making, meaningful participation, and long-term economic mobility.
BCC-Shared-Language-GuideThe Prosperity Agenda provides these resources as the designated national administrator of Family-Centered Coaching.