This information is for front-line workers and advocates working with women who have experienced family violence and who have questions about their immigration status in Canada. Immigration law in Canada is complicated. It is easy to make a serious mistake. It is important that a woman with...

This information is for front-line workers and advocates working with women who have experienced family violence and who have questions about their immigration status and the right to remain in Canada. This fact sheet explains some of the differences between an H&C application and a refugee...

As practitioners continue to deliver important client-centred services during the COVID-19 pandemic, this can be accompanied by feelings of burnout or compassion fatigue. It can be helpful to establish or renew your practice of self-care, fostering your own physical and mental health during...

This brief summarizes research into the theories underlying financial coaching and the effects of financial coaching on participant behaviors and outcomes. In practice, financial coaching remains an unregulated field, and individuals and organizations use the term “financial coaching” to refer...

The four basic pillars of any professional field—quality, consistency, accountability, and community – are attracting increasing focus from financial empowerment stakeholders across multiple sectors. When the Cities for Financial Empowerment Fund and Citi Community Development released a call...

This brief explores three existing unmet needs that contribute to survivors’ inability to build wealth: money, tailored asset-building support, and safe and responsive banking and credit services. Within each identified need, specific issues facing survivors, strategic actions in response to...