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:
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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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- Topics: Case study, Member news, Our Work, Small Business
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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- Topics: Hardship Forum, Member news, Our Work, Utilities
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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- Topics: Hardship Forum, Housing, Member news, Our Work
FCVic Hardship Forum Series: Telecommunications
Between September and December this year, FCVic is conducting 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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- Topics: Hardship Forum, Member news, Our Work, Telecommunications
2020: Year in Review
2020 was a significant year for many reasons. Before we draw a line in the sand between what happened and what is to come, we are pausing to look back on some of the events from last year –the first 12 months of FCVic’s operation under its current name.
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- Topics: Member news, Our Work
Why financial counsellors should take up the Connect with CARE training
Delivered by Neami National, Connect with CARE is a suicide prevention and intervention training package, made up of five key elements: Connect, Collaborate, Acknowledge, Reflect and Empower. Each element explores suicide prevention and intervention approaches in a manner that meets legal and ethical obligations whilst upholding recovery-oriented practice principles.
Katrina Barrett has written a short reflection on why financial counsellors should take up the Connect with CARE training opportunity.
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- Topics: Member news, Mental Health, Our Work