This 90-minute webinar provides frontline practitioners with foundational knowledge and skills to support Canadians living on a low income in accessing benefits. Participants will learn the importance of access to benefits for individuals and families, review key skills and opportunities for...

This 90-minute webinar provided frontline practitioners with foundational knowledge and skills to support Canadians living on a low income in accessing benefits. Participants learned the importance of access to benefits for individuals and families, reviewed key skills and opportunities for...

Developed under the academic leadership of Dr. Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald and Senior Researcher He Chen, the COA Calculator is a free online tool that explores how typical retirement costs — including food, housing, transportation, health and care, and other expenses — vary based on real-life...

This toolkit of digital literacy resources helps Canadians better protect themselves from online scams, fraud and unsafe digital practices. These bilingual tools are specifically created for adults with lower literacy levels and support adult learners in navigating today's rapidly changing digital...

If you’re getting texts from seemingly legitimate sources asking you for personal information, it could be a phishing attempt. Phishing scams are increasingly common. Protect yourself by learning how to spot phishing attempts and other variations of this...

  Safe and Secure is an online book that helps you imagine, plan, and take action toward building a good and purposeful life, and a secure future, for your family member with a disability.  First published in 1996, Safe and Secure was created to help families imagine and plan...

There are many different actions that can be taken to improve financial wellbeing. The Financial Wellbeing Framework offers 17 entry points to action to inform government, organizations, policymakers, decision-makers, practitioners, and researchers in their efforts to address financial...

The first course from the Money Matters for Self-Employment series is Thinking About Self-Employment. In this free course, you'll learn what it means to be self-employed, different ways of being self-employed and if self-employment is right for...

This report summarizes the first results from the Canadian Survey on Working Conditions. Explore how different kinds of workers experience core dimensions of quality of employment, including exposure to physical risks, emotional demands, work schedules and hours, time pressures, co-worker support,...

In this podcast episode, Simon Brascoupé introduces “Braiding Mind, Body, and Spirit,” a culturally relevant financial wellness resource developed with Prosper Canada and the Aboriginal Financial Officers Association of Canada. Using the braiding metaphor, the resource addresses Mind...

This 90-minute webinar provided frontline practitioners with foundational knowledge and skills to support Canadians living on a low income in accessing benefits. Participants learned the importance of access to benefits for individuals and families, reviewed key skills and opportunities for...

Every year, thousands of people in Canada miss out on tax benefits that can significantly increase their income or reduce the amount they owe. For people living on a low income, filing a tax return can mean thousands of dollars more. Check out these resources -- infographics, posters, and social...

If any of these statements sound like something you would say about money, this toolkit is for you: • I don’t have enough money to live on each month. • I find it frustrating to have to share my situation over and over again. • I wish I could find help easily but don’t know where to...

This toolkit provides women, youth, gender-diverse people, and frontline workers with information on preventing and addressing digital financial abuse. Digital financial abuse involves the misuse of technologies like online banking, finance apps, or other digital tools to exert power and control...

The Legal Remedies for Technology-Facilitated Gender-Based Violence (TFGBV) Toolkit is a guide to help women  and frontline anti-violence workers better understand the legal causes of action available in response to various forms of TFGBV, which can include economic abuse. It may be read on its...

The Autorité des marchés financiers (the “AMF”)  provides a directory of all the financial education tools available in Québec. Use these toolkits for financial planning based on your current...

Rising housing costs have had an impact on the ability of families to move. This article, using data from the Canadian Social Survey (CSS), illustrates how higher prices have disproportionately affected the moving decisions of young Canadians, particularly those experiencing financial...

Canada faces a decline in financial well-being. This report identifies systemic barriers to financial well-being and proposes a series of targeted institutional reforms, including the following: • Accelerate open banking • Streamline rules for inclusive innovators • Create a community...

By understanding how debt works and making a plan to manage it, you can take back control of your finances and move toward a more secure...

Debt can feel like a heavy weight on your shoulders. Whether it’s a credit card, car loan or student debt, owing money can cause stress and limit your choices. But debt doesn’t have to control your life. By understanding how it works and making a plan to manage it, you can take back control of...

Prosper Canada's comprehensive report, Closing the Divide: Solutions for Canada's Financial Help Gap, sets out clear steps governments, financial services, and community organizations can take to ensure every Canadian – no matter who they are or where they live – can access the financial help...

The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada (FCAC) has published research insights that reveal where Canadians are turning for various types of financial advice. FCAC’s Spotlight on Canadians’ use of financial advice showcases data from the 2024 Canadian Financial Capability Survey (the CFCS), a...

This policy brief argues that employment is not a viable path out of poverty unless policy interventions first address the barriers that prevent work and create a labour market that offers decent jobs. A successful poverty reduction strategy must also speak to the needs of those who will never work...

The 2025 Report of the National Advisory Council on Poverty is progress report on 'Opportunity for All' – Canada’s First Poverty Reduction Strategy. It presents views on whom people turn to when they need support, how they access services, and if the existing benefits and programs meet their...

In recognition of November 2025 Financial Abuse Awareness month, the Canadian Center for Women's Empowerment (CCFWE) hosted Empowering Survivors Through Digital Safety: Preventing Technology-Facilitated Economic Abuse within Financial Systems. This webinar explores how survivor-informed policy,...