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Foundations of Small Business Financial Counselling e-Learning Series: update

FCVic congratulates the financial counsellors who have completed the Foundations of Small Business Financial Counselling e-Learning Series.
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Participant feedback: Complex caseloads – working productively with people experiencing challenging emotions and behaviours

Dr Suzy Goldsmith reflects on the topics and training that have resulted from the \’Financial Counselling COVID-19 Response Mental Health Initiative’.
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Why small business owners need financial counsellors

Helen Brady, Sandra Blake and Bella Walker reflect on the intersection between small business and financial counselling, which addresses which small business owners may be vulnerable to financial stress, gig economy risks, the added pressure and higher risk faced by small businesses, and why exactly financial counsellors are important to small business owners.
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Update – our work on elder abuse

Dr Suzy Goldsmith writes about the recent FCVic special forum about parents visas as part of World Elder Abuse Awareness Day 2021, and writes about other projects related to elder abuse.
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On Track with My Money

FCVic is delighted to have received approval from the Victorian Government to proceed with our pilot trial ‘On Track with My Money’. The pilot is part of our Mental Health project, funded within the Victorian Government’s COVID-19 response. It explores the super-additive potential of financial counselling when integrated within mental health support systems.
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FCVic Council Rates Hardship Forum – Summary

The Council Rates Hardship Forum Series. It brought together financial counsellors and Victorian local government finance and rates teams to discuss and understand how councils are supporting vulnerable ratepayers, and how financial counsellors can provide free and confidential assistance to ratepayers experiencing financial hardship.
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Update – Small Business Wellbeing Project

Financial Counselling Victoria (FCVic) is pleased to support the work of the Victorian Government\’s Small Business Wellbeing Project, and advance the emerging professional specialisation in small business financial counselling.
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FCVic & EWOV Energy and Tenancy Hardship in Gippsland – Roundtable Discussion

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of stable and safe housing and continuing access to energy and water services. The Energy and Water Ombudsman Victoria (EWOV), in partnership with Financial Counselling Victoria, hosted a Community Agency roundtable for key community stakeholders in Gippsland to discuss these and other issues on 17th February 2021.
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FCVic Hardship Forum Series: Tenancy

Between September and December 2020, FCVic conducted a series four forums for financial counsellors to meet with representatives from the Banking, Energy, Telecommunications and Tenancy sectors. The Hardship Forum is a process designed to facilitate structured engagement on hardship, between financial counsellors and creditors.
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