Reentry Financial Simulator
My Life My Choices™: Corrections Edition
My Life My Choices™: Corrections Edition is a free scenario-based budgeting activity for people preparing for reentry after incarceration.
The course helps learners practice everyday financial choices, review common tradeoffs, and see how decisions around income, housing, transportation, credit, savings, and goals can affect life after release.
Where to start
The current Corrections Edition is available now through Money Fit’s course site. A refreshed version is expected by late summer 2026. Until that update is ready, learners may use the current course through the link below.
The activity is a learning scenario. It does not assume that every person leaving incarceration has the same housing options, employment opportunities, supervision requirements, family support, transportation access, health needs, or financial obligations.
Corrections Edition course access
The current Corrections Edition is available now through Money Fit’s course site. A refreshed version is expected by late summer 2026.
Who this course is for
This edition is designed for people preparing to reenter the community after incarceration and for educators, counselors, correctional programs, and reentry organizations that support financial readiness.
People preparing for reentry
Learners can practice choices tied to housing, income, transportation, savings, bills, and daily expenses.
Correctional education settings
The activity may support financial education before release, especially when learners need practical and realistic money scenarios.
Reentry support programs
Case managers, educators, mentors, and community programs can use the course themes to guide conversations about money decisions after release.
The numbers are only part of the transition
Reentry is not just a budget exercise. Housing, employment, identification documents, transportation, supervision requirements, family relationships, fines, fees, restitution, health care, and access to banking can all affect the financial path after release.
This course cannot account for every local rule, personal history, or reentry requirement. It is meant to help learners practice decisions, recognize tradeoffs, and prepare better questions before money choices become urgent.
What learners explore
The course is built around practical decisions that can affect a person’s budget during the early stages of reentry.
First-month budgeting
Learners think through how income, expenses, timing, and basic needs can compete during the first weeks after release.
Housing and transportation
The activity helps learners consider how shelter, commuting, and transportation choices affect available cash.
Work and income
Learners review how employment, pay timing, income gaps, and job-search costs can shape financial decisions.
Credit, debt, and obligations
The course introduces decisions involving credit, old balances, financial obligations, and the pressure to borrow.
Savings and short-term goals
Learners consider how even small savings goals may help with emergencies, deposits, transportation, or other immediate needs.
Consequences and tradeoffs
The simulator shows how one choice can affect the next, especially when money, time, and options are limited.
How the course works
My Life My Choices™ courses are built around scenario-based decisions. Learners move through choices and see how those choices can affect the budget.
Start with a reentry scenario
The activity places the learner in a practical financial situation connected to life after incarceration.
Make budget choices
Learners work through decisions involving income, housing, transportation, credit, savings, goals, and expenses.
Review the consequences
The activity helps learners see how decisions can affect available money, future choices, and financial pressure.
Reentry planning needs dignity and practical detail
Financial education for reentry should not pretend the path is easy. People may be rebuilding work history, finding housing, restoring documents, reconnecting with family, managing supervision requirements, and trying to make careful money choices with limited options.
A useful course should give learners a safe place to test decisions before the stakes are real. It should also respect the person taking it. The goal is not judgment. The goal is preparation.
Frequently asked questions
Who is My Life My Choices Corrections Edition for?
This course is designed for people preparing for reentry after incarceration and for programs that support financial education before or after release.
Is the Corrections Edition free?
Yes. The Corrections Edition is described as a free scenario-based budgeting activity.
How long does the activity take?
The activity is designed to take about 25 to 45 minutes, depending on how quickly the learner moves through the decisions and reflection points.
Is the course available now?
Yes. The current Corrections Edition is available now through Money Fit’s course site. A refreshed version is expected by late summer 2026.
Does this course provide legal advice or reentry case management?
No. This course is for general financial education. It does not provide legal advice, case management, parole or probation guidance, benefits counseling, tax advice, or individualized financial planning.
Will this course guarantee housing, employment, or financial stability?
No. Housing, employment, income, expenses, supervision requirements, family needs, debt, savings, transportation, and local resources can all affect reentry outcomes. The course can help learners think through tradeoffs, but it cannot guarantee results.
