National research has shown that many existing financial literacy programs are not accessible for many women living on low incomes, especially women who have experienced trauma. Utilizing trauma- and violence-informed approaches in financial literacy programming will increase women’s sense of safety, control and resilience—as well as decrease the risk of unintentionally re-traumatizing program participants.
With support from CIBC, we are building relationships between selected family support centres and financial literacy educators who have completed our SAFE Women course. We are also supporting the centres and educators to host financial wellness seminars for women, to help women improve their financial literacy knowledge, skills and confidence—all of which leads to achieving financial wellbeing.