1. How FSA Resources Can Help Your Family & Community
PRESENTED BY
Cindy Cameron
Sandra Vuong

2. Ordering Print Publications Social Media (Facebook and Twitter)
StudentAid.gov
Prepare for College
FAFSA
Repay Loans
My Student Aid login
Financial Aid Toolkit
Ordering Print Publications
Social Media (Facebook and Twitter)
YouTube Videos
Blogs

3. Help Your Family

4. StudentAid.gov

5. Prepare for College
College prep
Career search
Budgeting tips

6. Types of Aid
Grants, loans, work-study
Scholarships
Fraud alert

7. Who Gets Aid Basic criteria Eligibility of special groups
Staying eligible
Regaining eligibility

8. FAFSA: Apply for Aid Filling out FAFSA Dependency status Which parent
IRS DRT
What to expect after FAFSA

9. Repay Your Loans Repayment plans Repayment Estimator Consolidation
Loan forgiveness
Default prevention
Ombudsman

10. My Federal Student Aid NSLDS interface
STUDENTAID.GOV/LOGIN
NSLDS interface
Quick access to other sites as alternative

11. Alerts for default, converted TEACH Grant, aid overpayment
My Federal
Student Aid
home/overview
Overview of aid
Alerts for default, converted TEACH Grant, aid overpayment
Links to detailed info re individual loans & grants

12. StudentAid.gov/Resources
Fact sheets
Brochures
Booklets
Videos
Infographics
Info re Braille

13. Ordering Print Publications
FSA and “Big ED” publications
Orders limited to 1-3 copies
FREE

14. Help Your Community

15. FinancialAidToolkit.ed.gov AUDIENCE: School counselors & other mentors
SITE STRUCTURE:
Learn About Financial Aid
Conduct Outreach
Get Training
Search Tools and Resources

16. Learn About Financial Aid
Self-instruction
Talking points & tips for advising students
Featured resources

17. Conduct Outreach In-person or remote
IDEAS & RESOURCES FOR OUTREACH:
In-person or remote
How to answer FAQs from special audiences

18. Get Training
Accessing free formal training in financial aid
NT4CM

19. Search Tools And Resources
FILTER SEARCH BY:
Resource Type (e.g., videos, presentations, how-to guides)
Audience Type
Topic (e.g., FAFSA completion, loan repayment)
Time of Year

20. Bulk Publication Ordering
For you as FSA staff, to share in your community
Contact Veronica Redmond (3rd floor UCP)
For community organizations to order and share
Search “How-to Guides” on Toolkit for instructions on signing up for ID number for organization

21. How FSA Resources Can Help Your Family & Community
SOCIAL MEDIA
/FederalStudentAid
@FAFSA
YOUTUBE VIDEOS
/FederalStudentAid
BLOGS

22. College preparedness
Paying for college
Student loan repayment

23. Facebook.com/FederalStudentAid
Search “Federal Student Aid”

24. “Follow” us to see our posts on your newsfeed
Facebook.com/FederalStudentAid
“Like” our page
“Follow” us to see our posts on your newsfeed
Got a question? Send us a message or leave a comment on one of our posts.

25. Facebook Post Examples
Facebook.com/FederalStudentAid
Facebook Post Examples
FSA responds to many questions on Facebook

26. Facebook Post Examples
Facebook.com/FederalStudentAid
Facebook Post Examples
We also post “fun” content that is relevant to students and parents.

27. Sharing a Facebook Post
Facebook.com/FederalStudentAid
Sharing a Facebook Post
Clicking on the “Share” button will prompt this pop-up. You can add your own personal text.

28. Sharing a Facebook Post
Facebook.com/FederalStudentAid
Sharing a Facebook Post
The post will be shared via your personal timeline and appear on your friend’s newsfeed.
Also, “liking” or “commenting” on a Facebook post are other activities that can be shared to your friend’s newsfeed.

29. Twitter.com/FAFSA @FAFSA on Twitter “Follow” @FAFSA to see our tweets.
Currently, FSA has 63k followers.

30. Reply Retweet Favorite
Twitter.com/FAFSA
Twitter Post Example
Reply
Retweet
Favorite

31. Twitter.com/FAFSA
Twitter Post Reply
Reply to a tweet and say something about it. The tweet appears on your feed and begins a discussion thread.

32. The original tweet is duplicated.
Twitter.com/FAFSA
Twitter Post Retweet
Retweet is similar to “re-sending” someone else’s tweet to all of your followers.
The original tweet is duplicated.
This tweet has been retweeted 22 times.

33. Lets FSA know you liked our tweet and allows you to save it for later.
Twitter.com/FAFSA
Twitter Post Favorite
Favorites:
Lets FSA know you liked our tweet and allows you to save it for later.
This tweet has been favorited 31 times.

34. #AskFAFSA Office Hours
Twitter.com/FAFSA
#AskFAFSA Office Hours

35. Storify Page
#AskFAFSA Office Hours
Storify.com/FAFSA

36. Storify.com/FAFSA
#AskFAFSA Office Hours
Storify.com/FAFSA

37. YouTube.com/FederalStudentAid
YouTube Channel
YouTube.com/FederalStudentAid
Subscribe to our
YouTube Channel

38. Video: “FAFSA Overview”
YouTube.com/FederalStudentAid
YouTube Video
Video: “FAFSA Overview”

39. HomeRoom Blog View our blogs by visiting www.ed.gov/blog
In the sidebar, click on “Federal Student Aid.”