English
The Embedded Financial Coaching Pilot
The resources below introduce the Embedded Financial Coaching model in the context of workforce programs. They are designed to generate the interest of financial empowerment service providers and workforce programs about the promising possibilities of this model. Future phases of the toolkit will assist with initial planning and implementation stages for embedding FE into workforce programs.
- The Embedded Financial Coaching Primer gives a quick overview of the “what” and “why” of embedding financial empowerment into workforce programs
- The Integrating Financial Coaching into Employment Services Landscape Scan summarizes the literature and promising practices from the USA.
- The Literature review summarizes the promising practices to improve participant retention for multi session interventions that lead to deeper financial wellbeing outcomes (for detailed summaries refer to additional resources section).
Learn more about embedding financial empowerment
Canadian Publications
Prosperity Gateways: Cities for financial empowerment – Building the case outlines evidence for embedding FE.
US Publications
The US Department of Health and Human Services through its Office of Planning. Research and Evaluation supported MEF Associates and the Urban Institute to conduct a large-scale research project of the over 15 years of integrating financial capability and workforce programming. As part of this research project two research reports are highly relevant for attempts to replicate integrated service delivery in the Canadian context. The first report is a literature synthesis on Integrating Financial Capability into Employment Services. The second report is a summary of the approaches, motivations and types of services and participant perspectives on integrated services Understanding Financial Capability Interventions within Employment-Related Contexts for Adults with Low Incomes.
The Local Initiatives Support Corporation runs over 100 Financial Opportunity Centres across the USA. These FOCs deliver integrated financial empowerment and employment programs. A 2016 study evaluated the impacts of integrated service delivery… more recently LISC developed an Implementation Academy.
In 2015 The Administration for Children and Families, a division of the US Department of Health and Human Services, in collaboration with the Prosperity Now developed Building Financial Capability: A Planning Guide for Integrated Services. This resource is technical guide for community-based organizations that serve low- and moderate-income individuals.
Additional resources: Literature summaries
Citi Financial Capability Demonstration Project
Matched Savings Account Program Study
Financial Coaching Impact Evaluation
Pathfinders Re-Entry Mentoring Program
CFPB Financial Coaching Strategy
GreenPath Virtual Financial Coaching Pilot
Understanding Family Engagement in Home Visiting: Literature Synthesis
Study on Efficacy of Health Coaching and an Electronic Health Management Program
French
Financier intégré dans le contexte des programmes pour la main-d’œuvre
Les ressources ci-dessous présentent le modèle d’accompagnement financier intégré dans le contexte des programmes pour la main-d’œuvre. Elles ont été créées dans le cadre du projet pilote d’accompagnement financier intégré et sont destinées à susciter l’intérêt des fournisseurs de services d’autonomisation financière et des programmes d’emploi quant aux possibilités prometteuses du modèle. Les prochaines étapes de la trousse à outils contribueront à la planification initiale et aux étapes de mise en œuvre de l’intégration de l’éducation financière dans les programmes de formation de la main-d’œuvre.
- Le guide d’introduction à l’accompagnement financier intégré donne un aperçu du « quoi » et du « pourquoi » de l’intégration de l’autonomisation financière dans les programmes destinés à la main-d’œuvre.
- L’analyse documentaire sur l’intégration de l’accompagnement financier dans les programmes destinés à la main-d’œuvre présente une synthèse de la littérature et des pratiques prometteuses des États-Unis, ainsi que des connaissances acquises par les partenaires du projet d’accompagnement financier intégré.
- La revue de la littérature résume les pratiques prometteuses pour améliorer la rétention des participants dans le cadre d’interventions en plusieurs séances qui mènent à des résultats plus profonds en matière de bien-être financier.
En savoir plus sur l’intégration de l’autonomisation financière
Publications canadiennes
Sur la voie de la prospérité : les villes pour l’autonomisation financière (en anglais seulement)— Le dossier présente des données relatives à l’intégration de l’éducation financière.
Publications américaines
Le ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux des États-Unis, par l’intermédiaire de son bureau de la planification, de la recherche et de l’évaluation a soutenu le cabinet MEF Associates et l’Urban Institute pour mener un projet de recherche de grande envergure (en anglais seulement) portant sur l’intégration des programmes de capacité financière et de main-d’œuvre sur une période de plus de 15 ans. Dans le cadre de ce projet de recherche, deux rapports de recherche sont très pertinents pour les tentatives de reproduction de la prestation de services intégrés dans le contexte canadien. Le premier rapport est une synthèse de la littérature sur l’intégration de la capacité financière dans les services d’emploi (en anglais seulement). Le deuxième rapport est un résumé des approches, des motivations et des types de services, ainsi que des points de vue des participants sur les services intégrés : Comprendre les interventions en matière de capacité financière dans les contextes liés à l’emploi pour les adultes ayant de faibles revenus (en anglais seulement).
La Local Initiatives Support Corporation (LISC) gère plus de 120 centres de ressources financières (Financial Opportunity CenterMD — FOC) à travers les États-Unis. Ces centres FOC proposent des programmes intégrés d’autonomisation financière et d’emploi depuis 2005. Une étude de 2016 a évalué les impacts de la prestation de services intégrés… La LISC a mis en œuvre un centre de ressources en ligne (en anglais seulement) pour les praticiens, qui comprend des ressources sur la prestation de services, l’accompagnement financier, leur système de gestion des clients Salesforce, ainsi que sur les opérations et l’administration. Récemment, la LISC a publié un résumé des résultats (en anglais seulement) à propos d’une académie de mise en œuvre visant à former les organismes de main-d’œuvre sur la façon d’intégrer l’accompagnement financier individuel dans leur modèle de prestation de services existant.
En 2015, l’Administration for Children and Families, une division du ministère de la Santé et des Services sociaux des États-Unis, en collaboration avec Prosperity Now, a élaboré le Guide de planification pour les services intégrés : Renforcer la capacité financière. Cette ressource est un guide technique destiné aux organismes communautaires qui s’occupent des personnes ayant de faibles revenus ou des revenus modestes.
Ressources Additionnelles : La synthèse de la littérature
Projet de démonstration de la capacité financière de Citi
L’étude portant sur le programme de compte d’épargne jumelée
L’évaluation portant sur les répercussions de l’accompagnement financier
Programme de mentorat pour la réintégration de l’organisme Pathfinders
Projet pilote d’accompagnement financier virtuel de GreenPath
L’efficacité de l’accompagnement en matière de sante et d’un programme de gestion en cyber santé
Resources
Webinar (May 19th): Self-care for practitioners - strategies and challenges
Connect and Share (May 27th): Self-care strategies
Webinar (June 9, 2021): Virtual one-on-one client support
Read the slides for the ‘Virtual one-on-one client support’ webinar.
Watch the video recording for ‘Virtual one-on-one client support’
Download the handouts:
Client tool: Information to remember
Tip sheet: Supporting client intake, triage, and referral in virtual financial help services
Financial coaching at a distance: Tips for practitioners
Connect and Share (June 17, 2021): Tax-time debrief
Read the slides for ‘Connect and Share: Tax time debrief’.
View additional resources in Prosper Canada’s Tax filing toolkit.
Workshop (June 21, 2001): Beyond bubble baths - self-care during a pandemic
Workshop slides: Beyond bubble baths – self-care during a pandemic
Handout: Beyond bubble baths – Self-care during a pandemic
Resources shared during session:
Native-land.ca
Indigenous languages list in British Columbia
Self-compassion.org
Tara Brach mindfulness resources
Headspace
Boho beautiful guided meditations
Webinar (June 23, 2021): Diversity and inclusion - A conversation with SEED Winnipeg
Workshop (June 24, 2021): Visualizing client experiences - Using journey maps
Resources
Handouts, slides, and time-stamps
Read the presentation slides for this webinar.
Click ‘Get it’ above for video link for this webinar.
Handout: Implementing a practice of self-care
Providing one-on-one financial coaching to newcomers: Insights for frontline service providers
One-on-one financial help is a key financial empowerment (FE) intervention that Prosper Canada is working to pilot, scale and integrate into other social services, in collaboration with FE partners across the country. FE is increasingly gaining traction as an effective poverty reduction measure. FE interventions include financial coaching and supports that assist people to build money management skills, access income benefits, tackle debt, learn about safe financial products and services and find ways to save for emergencies. This report shares insights on providing one-on-one financial coaching to newcomers captured through two financial coaching pilot projects that Prosper Canada conducted in collaboration with several frontline community partners.
Protecting vulnerable clients: A practical guide for the financial services industry
Firms and representatives in the financial services industry occasionally encounter situations where a client’s vulnerability causes the client to make decisions that are contrary to his or her financial interests, needs or objectives or that leave him or her exposed to potential financial mistreatment. Because of the relationships they develop with their clients and the knowledge they acquire about clients’ financial needs or objectives over time, firms and representatives in the financial sector can play a key role in helping people who are in a vulnerable situation protect their financial well-being. They are instrumental in preventing and detecting financial mistreatment among consumers of financial services. Firms and representatives can also help clients experiencing financial mistreatment get the assistance they need. This guide proposes possible courses of action to protect vulnerable clients. Its purpose is to provide financial sector participants with guidance on the steps they can take to help protect clients’ financial well-being, prevent and detect financial mistreatment, and assist clients who are experiencing this type of mistreatment.
Resources
Handouts, slides, and time-stamps
Read the presentation slides for this webinar
Handouts for this webinar:
Tax time insights research report – webinar handout (Prosper Canada)
Income tax checklist – webinar handout (The Working Centre)
Form for missing income information – webinar handout (The Working Centre)
Income tax return summary sheet – webinar handout (The Working Centre)
Host checklist for tax clinics – webinar handout (The Working Centre)
Forms for rental information – webinar handout (The Working Centre)
Referral to FEPS – webinar handout (The Working Centre)
Time-stamps for the video-recording:
3:10 – Introductions and Agenda
6:32 – Audience polls
10:52 – Tax time insights: Experiences of people living on low incomes (Speaker: Nirupa Varatharasan)
26:00 – The Working Centre tax clinic experiences (Speaker: Jen Smerdon)
Family-Centred Coaching Toolkit
This is a set of tools and resources developed by The Prosperity Agenda to implement a holistic vision of financial coaching for individuals and families. (Note: Accessing the toolkit requires submitting user information).
Managing your money: Tools and tips to help you meet your goals (English)
MYM Worksheet 1: Your money goals
MYM Worksheet 1: Your money goals – Fillable PDF
MYM Worksheet 2: Tracking your regular income
MYM Worksheet 2: Tracking your regular income – Fillable PDF
MYM Worksheet 3: Tracking your spending
MYM Worksheet 3: Tracking your spending – Fillable PDF
MYM Worksheet 4: Tracking your bills
MYM Worksheet 4: Tracking your bills – Fillable PDF
MYM Worksheet 5: Monthly budgeting
MYM Worksheet 5: Monthly budgeting – Fillable PDF
MYM Worksheet 6: Setting a savings goal
MYM Worksheet 6: Setting a savings goal – Fillable PDF
MYM Worksheet 7: Preparing for tax filing
MYM Worksheet 7: Preparing for tax filing
About the ‘Managing your money’ resource
All ‘Managing your money’ worksheets
Facilitator resources (English)
Gérer votre argent: Outils et conseils pour vous aider à atteindre vos objectifs (French)
Feuille de travail #1: Vos objectifs en lien à l’argent (MYM)
Feuille de travail #2: Suivi de votre revenu régulier (MYM)
Feuille de travail #3: Suivi de vos dépenses (MYM)
Feuille de travail #4: Suivi de vos factures (MYM)
Feuille de travail #5: Budget mensuel (MYM)
Feuille de travail #6: Fixer un objectif d’épargne (MYM)
Feuille de travail #7: Préparation pour la déclaration de revenus (MYM)
Note pour les communautés et les organismes (MYM)
Feuilles de travail complètes
Ka-paminit kisôniyâm (Plains Cree)
Financial Empowerment: Improving financial outcomes for low-income households
Financial Empowerment is a new approach to poverty reduction that focuses on improving the financial security of low-income people. It is an evidence-driven set of interventions that have proven successful at both eliminating systemic barriers to the full financial inclusion of low-income people and providing enabling supports that help them to acquire and practice the financial skills and behaviours that tangibly improve their financial outcomes and build their financial security. The Financial Empowerment approach focuses on community level strategies that encompass five main types of interventions that have been identified as both necessary for low-income households to improve their financial outcomes, and effective at helping them to do so.
Lead By Design: Deepen Understanding of Program Design & Models to Better Meet People Where They Are
