The Yount Seminar

The Yount Seminar covers four important topics related to educational advancement. When the term school or schooling is used it includes formal job training. The following topics are included in the Seminar as well as in the Yount Seminar Participant’s Workbook. The seminar takes about six hours plus outside homework (career assessments, self-assessments and plan preparation). Guidance is included in the seminar workbook. The workbook can be viewed and printed from this website. Registered participants are given a hard copy to work from. Registration takes place through a Yount Fireside or through priesthood leaders.
1. Getting ready for more schooling
            Determining your potential and how to reach it
            Improving your basic skills (language, reading, math, etc.)
            Preparing your heart
Overcoming 10 myths that keep people out of college
2. Getting into school
            Avoiding common mistakes
The low-cost vs. the high-cost road (Why money is not the biggest problem)
Navigating the maze of college entry
Preparing a personal school plan
3. Paying for school
            Money is the least of your worries . . . so is most current debt
            Scholarships are based upon selling yourself—you’ll learn how
            School loans, if needed, are the best investment around
            Funding sources everyone overlooks
4. Succeeding in school
            The ingredients for success that everyone overlooks
            Tapping your available support staff: how to use family and friends
            Adapting to school life
How to accelerate your learning (including learning by faith as well as by study)

Who may take the Yount Seminar?
            Any LDS Church member who falls under the umbrella of the Yount program may take the Yount Seminar. The benefits are many. For example, most who take the seminar find out that they can finance their education without a loan. Others find the tools and techniques learned to be helpful in other areas of their life.
Mini Grant connection to the Yount Seminar
            The first section of the seminar is required if it is available to applicants. Participants will find the entire seminar helpful and it is recommended.
Yount Loan connection to the Yount Seminar
            The entire seminar is required but after the first unit much of it can be finished individually. Some results from the seminar are required to complete the applicant’s school plan.
            Students with 1+ years of successful schooling need only complete part of the seminar.
How you can help us. The Yount Program is a pilot program to determine how to increase the educational advancement of LDS Church members. Please tell us what about the program or the seminar was helpful, was not so helpful and what should be added. Email or phone your comments to Richard Maxfield maxfieldmr@ldschurch.org (800) 453-3860 x 28389