AMEDF Alliance

The mission of the AMEDF Alliance is to empower families for college success.  The AMEDF achieves this mission by providing a comprehensive menu of resources that families can utilize to better prepare for college. 

 

How does the Alliance work?

 

Unlike those whose efforts focus on increasing the government's role in combating college attrition, the AMEDF believes that resources necessary to help families achieve college success already exist.  What is lacking is a coordinated effort between the public and private sectors to meet this challenge.  The Alliance was formed to accomplish this needed coordination. 

 

The AMEDF Alliance first brings together resource providers in college guidance, admissions, and financing and then coordinates these offerings into an orderly methodology for delivery to families preparing for college.  This unique guidance methodology focuses on early family awareness and parental involvement in combating college attrition.  By combining this unique methodology with strategies that can make even the most expensive college affordable, all barriers to college success can be removed.

 

Who are the firms and what are their roles in the Alliance?

 

The current AMEDF alliance is administered and serviced by Steven Yeh & Associates, a consulting firm that trains professional advisors on college planning. 

 

The AMEDF, a tax-exempt non-profit trust, develops education programs to engage families.  Steven Yeh & Associates recruits, trains, and supervises college advisors in AMEDF programs. 

 

In addition to the official members of the AMEDF Alliance, other firms participate by providing discounted services or advisors to families engaged by the AMEDF.

 

How does the AMEDF Alliance engage families?

 

AMEDF community education programs provide families with college-bound students the knowledge needed to better prepare for college and combat college attrition.  AMEDF professional training programs prepare and certify college planning specialists to serve as advisors in AMEDF community education programs.

 

How much are AMEDF education programs?

 

AMEDF community programs for families are either fully-subsidized or partially subsidized.  Fully subsidized programs are free to the public. Partially subsidized programs carry a tuition that is significantly discounted to make them affordable to all families regardless of their financial circumstances. 

 

AMEDF professional training programs for advisors are developed in conjunction with participating firms, so costs for training vary based on the firm an advisor is associated with.

 

My firm woks in the college planning arena.  How do we get information about participating in the AMEDF Alliance?

 

Firms interested in finding out more about the AMEDF Alliance can send an email to information@amedfalliance.org.  Additional information for advisors is also available in the "Advisor Certification" section of this website.