Our work
Specific project initiatives provide FCVic with the opportunity to explore, develop and communicate how financial counselling supports community wellbeing.
Our approach reflects the way financial counsellors work. Our work is person-centred and responsive to need. Being curious, we seek to understand what works and what doesn’t for our partner organisations, their workforces and communities. We respond to what we learn and include the voices of all participants – financial counsellors, other service workers, agencies and clients. Together, we create new tools that help our sector to connect and communicate with diverse groups and services.
Some of the areas our work spans across include:
Latest:
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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- Topics: Member news, Mental Health, Our Work
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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- Topics: Member news, Our Work, Small Business
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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- Topics: Elder Abuse, Member news, Our Work
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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- Topics: Carers, Member news, Mental Health, Our Work
FCVic COVID Industry Summit Summary
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- Topics: Banking and Finance, Conference, EDR and Ombudsman Schemes, Hardship Forum, Member news, Our Work, Utilities
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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- Topics: Hardship Forum, Local Councils, Member news, Our Work