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One
Day Economic Advocacy Trainings
Economic
Advocacy Workshop
Advocates providing quality individual economic advocacy can
significantly impact battered women's ability to seek financial
security. This training defines
economic advocacy and builds advocates' skills in economic assessment
(including a flexible economic assessment tool), understanding and
repairing credit--including bankruptcy, creating an effective cost of
living plan, saving and investing, and dealing with collection
agencies. Trainer will emphasize
lessons learned and safety planning considerations when providing economic
advocacy with women impacted by domestic violence.
Economic
Advocacy Workshop with Cultural Competency
Training focuses on learning to improve and enhance advocates' ability
to assist women from diverse backgrounds--race, class, religion, sexual
orientation, ability and age--while identifying their economic
barriers. This one-day workshop will
give advocates additional tools to identify common cultural barriers along
with the knowledge and skills to overcome these barriers.
Individual
Development Account Workshop
Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) help
women save for assets that could increase their economic independence by
matching their savings (for example, if a woman saves $500 for a home
repair, her savings could be matched with $1,000). This training uses ROW staff's years of
experience in providing IDAs to battered women
and provides participants knowledge in:
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Understanding IDAs,
the history of IDAs, and the connection between
assets, wealth and poverty in America
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The connection between safety for battered
women and saving
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Exploring funding for an IDA program
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Best practices for domestic violence
programs providing IDAs, including effective
individual economic advocacy and economic education
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Working with banking institutions and data
management
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