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:
Small Business Financial Counselling update
Dr Suzy Goldsmith provides an update covering professional engagement with small business topics and newly published resources.
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- Topics: Member news, Our Work, Small Business
Smart Women Smart Money co-design workshop – a reflection
Bella Walker and Katrina Barrett reflect on the recent co-design workshop, run with AMCS, that is being used to shape Smart Women Smart Money – a project designed to financially empower CALD women.
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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- Topics: Member news, Our Work, Small Business
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